stargazing

[steffa]

my ball sometimes look like shes stargazing but than when i go look at her she goes and hides her head back down & flicks her tongue, do balls naturally stargaze?

[Mike41793]

does she do it in the middle of the tank or along the side? Stargazing was only found in boas i thought....

[steffa]

she was on the side not like going up the side of the tank or anything, and no i had a ball that died from it before i even got to feed her

[1nstinct]

Is she a Spider or a woma or a combo of either of them? If she is she's probably just a slight wobble. nothing to really worry about. if it is IBD get her away from all your other boas/pythons because it will take your collection away from you very quickly. or it just can be one of the weird things ball do
Best of luck
Try to take a video of it if you can.
Tom

[serpent fan]

Wait what?/??

[1nstinct]

Serpent fan- stargazing is a term used to describe pythons and boa that have IBD(Inclusion Body Disease) which is believed to be caused by a retrovirus. it is terminal and can spread as fast as mites. where as spiders/womas and some of the combos of them wobble when excited, usually its mild and only appears when feeding other times they do spirals all over the tank and look like a corkscrew. youtube stargazing and spider wobble and you you will see plenty of videos of them both.
Tom

[serpent fan]

Just did

[jbean7916]

Was she stargazing or just trying to smell/see out of the lid. I know when I had mine in tanks and they had more headroom, I would see them sticking straight up in the air, usually looking for an escape route.

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[cmack91]

Could she have been periscoping?

[DooLittle]

Was she stargazing or just trying to smell/see out of the lid. I know when I had mine in tanks and they had more headroom, I would see them sticking straight up in the air, usually looking for an escape route.

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Yup, mine did this in tanks. Not so much in tubs. However, spider gene can cause wobble, wierdo "stargazing".