Need info and help for my ball python!

[Stewart_Reptiles]

5 days ago, I purchased my first ball python and his name is fartbarf! On yhe second day I got him, he started to shed. It started to come off in patches and has been pretty rough with no results yet. Should I bathe him and help him out or no? And I've seen plently of threads where it says they won't eat during shed, but he hasn't ate and I'm getting a little worried. Should I be? On the hot side, it is around 89 degrees and the cold side is 78 degrees. But Fartbarf keeps going up and down the sides of the tank only at night. Is this normal or is he stressed? Tomorrow I should be puuting black paper around the back and sides of his cage too. Oh, and he is a hatchling in a 55 gallon tank. Please help and answer some of my questions! Thank you

Hatchling in a 55 gallons tank? Even an adult does not need anything that big.

Yep not a surprise that he is over active, climbing the "wall", not eating and not having a good shed.

So here is where you start http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...-hatchling-101 if you hatchling is over 250 grams than use a 12 quarts tub instead.

When you take him out to transfer him to his new enclosure get a damp towel and let him slither through it it will take care of the shed, after that no more handling until it eats.

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