I know there are a lot of these but... Black Pastel or not???

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Not a Black Pastel

[Alex.B]

looks normal, am i the only one who finds that her belly looks kind of unhealthy??

[LadyOhh]

Nice Normal!
I would suggest changing out your substrate, as the bark dust is getting underneath the belly scales of your snake and can cause some issues...

[Reakt20]

agreed, dinker, but not black pastel

[KingPythons]

Granite like 4sure

[Rat160]

Nice Normal!
I would suggest changing out your substrate, as the bark dust is getting underneath the belly scales of your snake and can cause some issues...

Her belly has been like that since ive had her. I used to keep them on paper towels and her belly was the same.

[LadyOhh]

Well, my suggestion is still valid. Bark dust can cause problems.

[Rat160]

Well, my suggestion is still valid. Bark dust can cause problems.

and I do appreciate the input. I dont like using aspen shavings and paper towels got to bea lot of work to change out whenever they spilled water or anything else.

I figured I know a lot of people who use the bark and figured it might be a little better.

Do you have any suggestions then on something to use. I just know the if you get a bad batch of aspen you can get mites, and thats not really something I want to deal with.

[loonunit]

I heard it was cypress, not aspen that sometimes had the mites? I use sani-chips, I think Heather does too?

But it doesn't look like the first hints of scale rot, it just looks like belly pigmentation in these pics.

[Lolo76]

She'd make a GREAT partner for my "dinker/black pastel-ish" boy from this year: http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...-whaddya-think

He's actually spoken for already (as part of a trade with a friend, for an Orange Ghost baby), but that was my first thought on seeing your girl... so you should try to find her a nice dark mate, and then breed her back to any similar males produced. Could make some very cool babies!