little zoo together

[wolfy-hound]

Oh and technically, condensation water on glass would probably be the cleanest water in there.

[CherryPython]

Kendra, I believe in giving every person the chance to do the right thing. In this thread you have been given multiple chances to take some of the best ball python husbandry advice available...not just on the internet, but on the planet. Your last post shows that you have no intention of taking that advice, and frankly shows a blatant lack of regard for not only your ball python, but also for the other species of reptile you have chosen to toss together in your 200 gallon theater of the absurd.

While there is nothing particularly wrong with your BP having ALOT OF ROOM, what does having a lot of room have to do with you forcing your will on your snake and making it live in your own twisted version of reptile Fantasy Island?

...that's no reason build Jurassic Park in your living room.

OM Holy G!!! Jeebus and The Fishermen protect us!!!
There is really no delicate way to put this...Your Vet may be well meaning, but he or she seriously rode the short bus to Veterinary College.


Who in the unmitigated name of anything you hold holy gave you advice on helping all these mismatched herps live in the same glass sided house of horrors you call a habitat? Who? By name? Please?

I can see how your tree frogs feel at home, but please explain to me how your ball python, a native of west African grasslands, feels at home in your 200 gallon petri dish?

Quite the way with words Slim...Quiiite the way with words


Jeebus and the Fishermen. I nearly died laughing.

I feel like smashing my head into a table, she clearly isn't listening. She has, as you have said, received a LOAD of great advice. Yet I bet they're all still living in her "200 gallon petri dish", taking "rides" on her BPs back and "feeding" each other... This seems to have been a "Look at what I can do, everyone tell me it's so cool, but I don't want to hear it if I'm wrong" thread.

It's like me getting diabetes, everyone telling me I need to stop eating so much sugar because I could get seriously ill, but me always saying,
"No it's okay, I know what I'm doing!", not listening to anybody because I LOVE sugar, and that's what I want to eat. I may say I know what I'm doing, and not see the effects straight away...But the long term serious effects eventually become apparent.

[ballpythonluvr]

Kendra, please think about the wellbeing of your animals here. That poor snake is being forced to live in those horrible conditions just so you can humor yourself. How would you like to be forced to live a certain way without anyone having any regard for what is right and wrong??? In short, you are going to have one very sick snake on your hands if you continue to force her to live like this. All I can say is when that happens, don't come here crying that your snake is sick. You choose to do what you want without any regard for what the snake has to go through, pretty damn selfish if you ask me.

[CherryPython]

Kendra, please think about the wellbeing of your animals here. That poor snake is being forced to live in those horrible conditions just so you can humor yourself. How would you like to be forced to live a certain way without anyone having any regard for what is right and wrong??? In short, you are going to have one very sick snake on your hands if you continue to force her to live like this. All I can say is when that happens, don't come here crying that your snake is sick. You choose to do what you want without any regard for what the snake has to go through, pretty damn selfish if you ask me.

Well said.

[crepers86]

One thing that caught me was the vet said it was an uncommonly friendly snake. One, most of my BPs are really "Friendly". With the proper handling a BP becomes tallernt of handling where they almost seem friendly this includes being head shy or not. A Ball Python is STILL a wild animal, and there for is not tame. Silver and Abus do not rare back or ball up when there head is touched, they are used to it. so there for are the two I use the most for presentation when I let kids and nervous people hold the snakes. To me if you can't train it to play fetch it isn't "Friendly"

[Trochu]

The habitat idea is cool (I myself have lots of hides, branches, fake greenery etc.), just takes lots of time so most people don't do it. I'd just suggest you change your habitat though, less rainforest, more this:

[kendrab]

ok so i have another tank to set up for siss. i want to set it up but i am sticking to my soil and nateral plants. sorry in 6 years that is one thing that i want to keep. so with that is what is called cat grass ok to put in her tank or what are some ideas of plants that can go in with her.
as everyone said the 200 is set up for every one else.
i really didnt need the sarcasm.

[wolfy-hound]

The habitat idea is cool (I myself have lots of hides, branches, fake greenery etc.), just takes lots of time so most people don't do it. I'd just suggest you change your habitat though, less rainforest, more this:

Please don't put a live giraffe in a tank. Just leads to madness.

Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.

[Trochu]

Please don't put a live giraffe in a tank. Just leads to madness.

Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.

, um right.....said habitat without the giraffe.

[Slim]

i really didnt need the sarcasm.

I'm very glad you’re setting her up in her own enclosure. If you had done that earlier, you wouldn't have gotten the sarcasm.

I really wish you'd reconsider this natural plant and grass stuff. That kind of set up strokes your own ego, but frankly, does nothing for your snake. You're just setting yourself up for problems down the line. But, as I said, I’m just grateful you’re taking her out of the rain forest.

You know, if you really want to set her up in the most realistic environment possible, you should research what kind of plants grow inside a termite mound.