Louie being weird!BP eating habits are weird!!

[tembii]

Mine gets like that.....he will start roaming around the cage and he wants to push everything around. So I'll be like....let me take you out to hang. Nope...he wants to be left alone. They are weird and like to get off their normal routine. Mine likes to wreck the hotel room once in a while and act up. He may be getting ready to enter into the shedding process very soon. Check his temps and humidity, make sure that's all good. He will eat when he's ready.

Sometimes I think as pets...they may be eating more than they do in the wild. IDK....I'm no expert but he may still be good with what's already in him.

Lol, "wreck the hotel room," that's a funny image. I hear about people's bps being messy, tipping things over, luckily Louie doesn't get into too much trouble! The one thing he does do that other's bps seem to do is stick to the smallest hide even if they outgrow it and they look like they're wearing the hide as a hat, haha. I just basically FINALLY got him to learn that he has other hides that are bigger and will still keep him tucked in and cozy and hidden lol.

So for his temps n humidity, I just changed out all his bedding last week with fresh Cypress mulch which gave his humidity some help so it sits an a steady 50-60, depending on how full his water dish is. I have his heating lamp positioned over a large water dish so when it gets low, I just fill it back up with fresh water and it makes it nice n humid for him. His temps are an ambient 80 and warm side of 92. He usually hangs out in his hide right in the middle of his house where its like, 87-90.

I like to chalk his fussy eating to the winter weather but at the same time its not like it gets actually that much colder since he's in a controlled house not the wild. But it super may be true what you say, that they eat more domesticated than in the wild! Thanks a lot for the reply tho, I'm super happy to hear I'm not the only one and that it's all natural!!

They sometimes stop eating like November to April.....she could be acting like it's breeding season. As long as their weight is maintaining, adult ball pythons can, and often do, go several months without feeding.

I didn't consider the breeding aspect since Louie's a girl and 'cus of his age. I'll keep in mind, it means a lot, thank you!!!