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Ball python not eating / Temp check please
Hi all... My ambient air temps an inch from floor usually read 79f down to 75f at the cool end. The floor temps range from 90f down to 75f across the cage? Had her a month and usually eats every week but not this week, I've changed viv and the ambient a are a little lower but floor temps are same?
thanks
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How are you reading temps?
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Re: Ball python not eating / Temp check please
Hi... I've got two probes drilled through the viv sides stuck into the viv around an inch from floor, I get my floor temps with temp gun
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Changing the tank up could be enough to throw her off.
KMG 
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Re: Ball python not eating / Temp check please
 Originally Posted by KMG
Changing the tank up could be enough to throw her off.
^^^This. Also, some are just finicky anyways. My male ghost has been an awful eater than all my others, since the day I got him. He lives in the same exact conditions as all my other snakes.
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Re: Ball python not eating / Temp check please
Yeah I guess so, I presume the ambient air temp will be higher inside the hides also? As she spends most her time in there, although she has been out on top/down the side of her hide quite a lot lately?
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Re: Ball python not eating / Temp check please
So are my temps acceptable from your experience ?
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Are there poop or urates hiding in her hide? It's good if she's hiding a lot, if she's out more often sometimes they'll let loose in their hides and then won't stay in it 
Your temps seem good, and you seem to be measuring them correctly.
Last edited by Skittles1101; 09-29-2014 at 06:44 PM.
2.0 Offspring, 1.1 Normal Ball Python, 1.0 Pastel Ball Python, 0.1 Albino Ball Python, 0.1 Pinstripe Ball Python, 0.1 Banana Ball Python, 1.0 Pied Ball Python, 1.0 Normal Hognose, 0.1 Veiled Chameleon, 0.0.1 G.pulchra, 0.1 P.metallica, 0.1 M.giganteus
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They are within range. I try to stay within 77-82 for my air temp.
When you change things up they will explore as its new to them. Just let it get settled back in.
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0.1 BP 1.1 Blood Python 1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa 1.0 Aru Green Tree Python
0.1 Emerald Tree Boa 0.1 Dumeril Boa 0.1 Carpet Python 0.1 Central American Boa
0.1 Brooks Kingsnake 0.1 Speckled Kingsnake 1.0 Western Hognose
0.1 Blonde Madagascar Hognose 1.0 Columbian Boa
1.1 Olde English Bulldogge 1.0 Pit Bull

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Re: Ball python not eating / Temp check please
Yeah doing the best I can, she is my first snake, it's easy to get obsessed by temps and environment worrying if I've got it right. She usually poops in hide yes, but she hasn't been for two weeks now, I check regular
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