Getting a ball python tomorrow!! Advice??

[dillymann]

Yay good for you!

If anyone needs me, I'll be busy importing some dirt, insects, wild rodents, and bacteria from Nigeria. Or maybe Ghana... Choices, choices.

And I said replicate not make it their environment


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[Anya]

I'd rather my snake live in a glass box than a plastic tub now Free

O the horrors of plastic tubs!! Animal cruelty, practically. How very dare they!

Glass, that superior product. All hail the glass!

[Anya]

And I said replicate not make it their environment


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And I said 'good for you'. What I choose to import or not is none of your concern.

[dillymann]

Why are you trying to start stuff putting words in my mouth all i said is i would rather keep them in a glass tank rather than a plastic bin


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[Anya]

Not trying to start anything. Just having some fun with a 16 year old kid who thinks he knows everything, bro.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Why are you trying to start stuff putting words in my mouth all i said is i would rather keep them in a glass tank rather than a plastic bin
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Word of advice here, if you cannot debate intelligently without resorting to insults, you might want to keep YOUR opinion to yourself.

Now back to our regular programming.

[JLC]

Come on people....folks are getting awfully spun up about a truly minor technical choice.

Belly heat? Overhead heat? Back heat? They can all work, if the keeper does what it takes to make it work. It's certainly not a topic worthy of such heat and vitriol. Say what you prefer...say why you prefer it....but don't resort to insulting (either directly with words or indirectly with sarcastic, condescending attitudes) someone else just because they have different preferences.

[mikoh4792]

It's not about replicating the wild dillyman. Maybe for you, but not for everyone. For me it's about providing the conditions your snake needs to thrive and allowing enough room to observe natural behavior.

Doesn't matter whether it's done with a heat lamp or not but i find a heat pad to be more efficient in retaining humidity and not creating frequent dry spots in the cage. That said I keep mostly semi-arboreal snakes so I use radiant heat panels for overhead heat and heat pads for supplemental heating in the winter.


EDIT: do you give your ball pythons burrows like the ones they inhabit in the wild? Or do you just give them hides on top of substrate?

[dillymann]

It's not about replicating the wild dillyman. Maybe for you, but not for everyone. For me it's about providing the conditions your snake needs to thrive and allowing enough room to observe natural behavior.

Doesn't matter whether it's done with a heat lamp or not but i find a heat pad to be more efficient in retaining humidity and not creating frequent dry spots in the cage. That said I keep mostly semi-arboreal snakes so I use radiant heat panels for overhead heat and heat pads for supplemental heating in the winter.


EDIT: do you give your ball pythons burrows like the ones they inhabit in the wild? Or do you just give them hides on top of substrate?

I use snake caves


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[ROACH]

I use snake caves


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Whats a snake cave? Im not being rude here, but I dont think Ive ever seen one. Is it just a hide?