Recently I picked up a spider ball python who was being neglected by his owner and I'm concerned about his corkscrewing.
I used to keep a mojave spider so I do have experience with them but I actually stopped keeping snakes and rehomed my corn snake and other bp because the sight of him corkscrewing turned me away from snakes and, quite honestly, scared me. It is not a pleasant site. But thats a different topic and now, years later, I'm back into keeping snakes.
I do understand that it is 'normal' for them to corkscrew but I'm not sure if I've been unlucky and both were severe cases or if something else is an issue, such as stress. I constantly see people justifying the continuation of breeding them but quite frankly, I don't see how they can. I do not want to get into that here but try walking around for 5 minutes swinging your head up and down and side to side wildly and tell me you have a normal quality of life.
On to the issue, I want to know what other spiders are generally like, my original mojave spider would do full corkscrews everytime I came near his cage and it got especially bad at feeding time. The new one I've picked ( I never wanted to own another spider but I couldn't leave him in those conditions) has been doing some fairly severe corkscrews, fully twisting the first 5 inches of his body and sometimes stretching back, twisted up and staying upside down for a period of time.
Do other spiders do this or could this be a different issue I need to address? Or have I just ended up with two severe cases of it?
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