Possible star gazing?

[Wahzilla]

Hey guys I got a snake in the mail today. He's a little over a month old.
I've only had him for a couple hours, but I'm a little concerned about how much he's been sticking his neck in the air. It's something I've read about, but I haven't seen it.





He was shipped on Monday, and arrived Wednesday. He was held for a day because there was a pretty bad thunderstorm between here and there.
I'm pretty confident that he's just stretching. He's been pretty active checking out his little temp tank.
I was just wondering what you guys thought, and how long I should wait before I take him to a vet.

Thanks a lot.

[Tsanford]

Id give him a few days to settle in. Just make sure that temps and humidity are under control. Don't pick him up for at least a week or two. Just monitor him and I'm betting he'll be fine!

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[distaff]

Good looking fella.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

The position showed in the picture is not star gazing.

[Ax01]

congrats! nice looking snake u got with some nice periscoping. i think he's just peeping stuff out beyond the glass.

[Wahzilla]

Thank you, thank you. I figured I'd give him a few days, but I have no experience with little babies guys so it caught me off guard pretty bad haha.
I'll be back if I have any more questions

[Kayak Steve]

The link is a photo of one of my little guys doing the exact same thing, he's just having a good look around!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/65282925@N00/19591825691/

[Gerardo]

That is called periscoping.

[se7en]

@Wahzilla- you may find this thread informative:

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ur-periscopers

[DVirginiana]

Just periscoping

Whenever I've seen it in videos, stargazing just looks noticeably wrong. It's the sort of thing you see and just think "man, that can't be right".