Humid Hide, Handling BP & Introduction

[D-.No]

Hey Guys, my name is Dino. I’ve perusing on the boards for a bit and it’s been great!

I have always had an enthusiastic amount of reptile and amphibian love/experience especially when was I was young. Obsessed with reading, field collecting and non-profit educational zoos.


Of recent I was struck with some bad luck of losing my dog, my five year marriage, my stepdaughter and an injury that das been affecting me greatly half my life but the really bad for the last a year and a half. Undergoing a couple surgeries this year and decided to get a Ball python for some company. I am determined to make this snake super docile. Considering it’ll be positive therapy animal during my down time she’s the only pet I can take care of myself at the moment.


And I feel like I got the perfect BP! She seems kind, doofy, Definitely not overaggressive for 1 1/2 month old (she hissed first feed and gave me a peck) and very beautiful. Her name is Roxy (Roxanne).


One thing I did forgot about having reptiles is the patience. Which I am no longer, I operate a New York restaurant.


At times I am way over concerned about her well-being even though I had her habitat ready weeks before she arrived, temporarily it’s probably a little too big. She seems fine and healthy, The oddest thing about her sometimes she awkwardly forces herself to be in the warmest part of the enclosure which is really hot.


My big concern is how much of the boss do I show a snake? Like right now I think she is going into early sheaf. After the last handling i persuaded her into a humid hide for the first time (finally I thought) and as far as I know she has not left since. The Sphagnum moss Is definitely drying out. I tried to feed her last night and she wasn’t having it and she seemed pretty pissed off at me for bothering her. I know she doesn’t like the spray bottle but I gave a couple squirts inside the hide.


Am I being too passive? Or should I get her out of the hide and adjust it as needed and let her figure it out or maybe use it as an opportunity to handle her again?


Or leave her alone until she either presents herself that she’s not in shed or completes the process?

FYI- This is not only my first Ball python but my first baby
snake.