Quote Originally Posted by jnettrecker View Post
I am a new snake owner. Actually to be technically correct my Kids are new snake owners I am just the person who ended up taking care of them

My daughters 1 year old female Ball Python started acting weird the past two days. She randomly twitches and has been doing everything from laying in the water bowl for long periods of time, to rubbing her nose against the inside of the water bowl and cage in addition to lifting her head up in the air in a strange sort of way. Kinda like she is lost. On another note we have had her almost 3 weeks and she still will not eat. We have been giving her the same thing her previous owner did, Live mice. The other Ball python has ate one mouse. We bought them at the same time from two different owners but they both came from the same store. I know that is confusing.....


Tank layout consist of the following: 30 gallon terrarium with a one gallon capacity rock style water bowl and two hiding places, one half log and one rock formation. Bedding is a reptile approved white pine chip. For lighting we have one night red reptile lamp and one daylight reptile lamp that we use in their respective times. Cage temp stays around 85 degrees and we try to keep the humidity above 70%. The humidity did drop down to near 50% the past two days (about the time she started acting funny) as our humid-stat was malfunctioning and we had to replace.

Thank you for your time.
Everyone has gotten it pretty clear about the whole PAM thing.

As for another issue, PLEASE get the snake off of pine and put her on aspen or newspaper. Newspapers may be a good idea to watch for mites, but even after that don't use pine. Even if it's approved, it's not a safe substrate for snakes.

Is your snake a young snake? If she's tiny, she may not be eating because her enclosure is much too large. A 30g tank is only good for an adult breeder size ball python. It's much too much space for a baby and will probably make it feel insecure.
Do you have 2 tight hides on each side of the enclosure? Make sure they're not log hides and that there is no space between the snake and the hide when the snake is inside of it.
What have you been trying to feed? Make sure to feed something about the same thickness as the thickest point on the body. If your trying to feed f/t, try live. If your trying mice, try rats. Etc.

Yes, it is also very important to have the snakes separate, for multiple health and unsafe reasons. As well as stress on both of them.

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