Quote Originally Posted by bcr229 View Post
Ten in three months is a lot. How did you quarantine them?


They shouldn't be. If they are continuing to have bad sheds then there is a problem with your husbandry. I've also never had a snake with a bad shed due to stress and adjusting.

BTW did you ever get any thermostats?
I have had thermostats, temp guns, humidity gauges, humidifiers proper bedding, heat lamps not the uv but the night glow, we have under tank heater not the heat rocks, warm hide and cool hide water bowls they can fit in tanks with lids, paper towels, safe disinfectants, scale and bowls for weighing, sexing kit and lube and i have made almost every kind of tracking chart i can possibly need..How hard is it to google a ball python care sheet...REALLY??? I mean do people REALLY go into buy animals with no research and no equipment, guess what we even have a routine... and my snakes come to me when i call so i think we are doing ok...
I do not understand how you do not quarantine them they each get their own tank they will not touch or be near each other until they breed by that time in a year and a half we should automatically know what they have right or wrong with them, wouldn't it be foolish to keep them together at all??? I mean i thought big ones can eat little ones, i could be wrong as i do not pretend to know everything as I HAVE ONLY been collecting for 4 months however common sense goes a long way...in any type of husbandry...so i do not keep them together they share no space so i guess i do not understand the question, and i know what to look for with mites and only buy from reputable people like Bob Clark & underground etc (they are really pretty reliable) as i learned a hard lesson from the local pet store who i will no longer purchase through...
I have had a few who have had bad sheds due to stressful change in their environment and my learning how to keep the humidity in the cage but when i didn't know I RESEARCHED and then the shed was ever so easy to deal with, i am still waiting on 4 to shed and have had VERY SUCCESSFUL SHEDS since i started doing what i have stated before, i mean i may be wrong but I thought a good shed was one whole piece that they just slither out of? but i am sure people here have preformed something much greater than that??? we get those when the snake gets used to our routine...so I think i will stick with my horrific husbandry approaches as I have FABULOUSLY GORGEOUS HEALTHY HAPPY SNAKES!!!