I'm a little over my head in ball pythons right now, but trying to make it work. I had one bp, Altas, a pied male that I was hoping to breed down the road (only about 300g right now) and decided it was time to get him a future girlfriend. After spending a while looking online, I decided on a black pastel albino het pied female, and drove a few hours to buy her. On the way back home, I get a call from my local PetsMart that someone is trying to drop of a bunch of snakes because she didn't want them to eat her dog, and PetsMart was trying to see if I would take them. That's what I get for being known as the snake girl. I assumed that since this person was concerned for her dogs safety, that these would be large snakes that I don't have set-ups for, but I figured I would go take a look and see if I could at least help her get them somewhere safe. Imagine my surprise when I show up and see 5 ball pythons, two around 900g and around 300g... they were not going to eat anyone dogs. By the time I got to the store she was talking about just letting them go in the parking lot, so I felt I had to intervene and take them from her. She gave me the 20 gallon tank they were all being kept in... together, and the tiny water dish and half log. She had no heat at all for the tank.
Thanks to this forum, I was able able to determine I ended up with a pastel, a pastel butter, a pinstripe, an albino, and a pastel banana. According to the prior owner, they are all female except the pastel banana. I am not good at sexing so I have no idea) I currently have them in 28qt tubs in my guest bedroom (except for the two I owned that , but I need to start thinking about a rack soon (any suggestions are welcomed) as well as figure out what I want to do with them as far as breeding is concerned. They all seem healthy enough with the exception of some stuck shed, so hopefully they can recover from their traumatic experiences.
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