A couple days ago i bought/adopted 2 full grown ball pythons. My female is a 3 1/2 ft, 4 yr old pastel. Shes healthy as can be so is the male that came with her. He is a regular 4ft male. He is docile while the female is not. The person i got them from desperatly needed to get rid of them as an infant was about to be born. He kept and asked me to keep them both housed in the huge enclosure he built. Im totally fine with that because they have lived together for 4 yrs. Heres where it gets cool/ crazy. I have other ball pythons but i dont breed them yet because they are all not ready. The big male n female i just got apparently are. When i picked them up from the dude i noticed that they were outside snakes. (As in their enclosure was out on a balcony outside) im in florida so thats not an issue...it just makes perfect breeding conditions. I asked him if they have bred before and he said they naturally give a clutch off every year. He would take the clutch and sell the eggs $10 a piece to a local reptile store. When i brought them and the enclosure to my house and cleaned it ect. We put them back in it (inside my house though) . The female went right for the hide box and sure enough the male followed. Now this is my first time having 2 snakes enclosed in the same enclosure. I wanted to see how they would curl up together being so big in medium box. I opened it and sure enough they were locked and staid locked for 14 hrs. My question is..how long/ how many days is too much for them to lock? They both still eat ect. The male comes out and explores grabs a drink then goes back in and continues. They are locked right now. Lol. Should i seperate them at some point (once they are done) to give them a break? I gave them both a nice long warm soak in my bath tub. I think it was their first.
2nd question: the previous owner fed really large live rats every 3 weeks...these guys have heavy healed battle scars from previous rats (he fed them before i bought them). I think they should be on medium rats or small rats more freqiuntly. What should i do???
I want the best for these guys. They are my babies ❤🐍 for me its not a job or a hobby..its a passion
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