New baby ball... too active?

[MrLang]

Surprised nobody has said this but ball pythons cruise around a lot and 'aren't afraid of anything' when they're stressed out. My established snakes do come out and poke around here and there, but not like clockwork and never during the day. You chose him because he is active and not afraid, but that behavior could indicate that the animal was already stressed out in the breeder's care. Don't handle the snake much until it calms that behavior down.

You can try to feed, but if it fails don't try again for at least 3 or 4 days. I had 4 out of 5 snakes take a meal for me within 2 days of getting them - and all of them were F/T for the first feeding and coming from eating live. Anything's possible.

GL

[grizzjr1]

Yeah you can try feeding him but don't be discouraged if he doesn't eat right away.

Do yourself a favor and toss those stick on thermometers and hygrometers in the garbage and get some digital thermometers.

Will do. And I have two digital Accu-rite ones (one that measures just humidity and temp on the cold side, and one that has a probe measuring the UTH in the tank along with air temp/humidity on the hot side), but I have them stuck to the wall with those foam sticky pads. Sorry for the confusion!

Surprised nobody has said this but ball pythons cruise around a lot and 'aren't afraid of anything' when they're stressed out. My established snakes do come out and poke around here and there, but not like clockwork and never during the day. You chose him because he is active and not afraid, but that behavior could indicate that the animal was already stressed out in the breeder's care. Don't handle the snake much until it calms that behavior down.

You can try to feed, but if it fails don't try again for at least 3 or 4 days. I had 4 out of 5 snakes take a meal for me within 2 days of getting them - and all of them were F/T for the first feeding and coming from eating live. Anything's possible.

GL

That's what I was thinking, but he still balls up and everything. The only time I have seen him during the day was when he switched from the hot side to the cold side of the tank. He only comes out at night otherwise (12AM-3AM seem to be his prime time, although he comes out for water or to do a lap then back to the hide randomly). I haven't handled him since Sunday, even though he's hard to resist haha. He is coming from eating live so I'm crossing his fingers he gobbles up an F/T but you never know.