New member, new snake Questions

[zina10]

Awesome !!!

[Mofire]

So to update, I made another hide for him and put it in his cage. He still seems a little snippy and I think it's partially due to his stuck shed. I've raised the humidity, tried the soaking in warm water with a wash cloth method and it's still stuck. Poor guy probably can't see and strikes at everything. I just misted him again. You can see the eyes are covered in the second picture


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[Mofire]

So right now I have him in a small tub with a warm damp towel. Hopefully this will help the poor guy.


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[CALM Pythons]

So right now I have him in a small tub with a warm damp towel. Hopefully this will help the poor guy.




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Good Job.. Im sure he ill be fine, I bet within a day or 2 his eyes will be all set.

[Kristaok]

10 gallon seems a little small , a youngin should be in a 20gal and an adult in a 30-40. As for therms I never use one personally but I also use a low watt zoo med heating pad so that's totally up to you. I use aspen substrate, a wooden hide, some deco, and a water dish. I also do use a light for the day and one for the night, some use them others don't. I keep a gradient of temps in my 30gal one side 70ish, the middle 80ish, and the hot side about 90. Oh and I keep humidity around 60.

As for being nippy, could be where he's young, scared, hungry, or anything. A trick I do is make sure mines fed then wait a couple days for digestion then I rub it's back to get it to go into a ball and I pick up and hold.

[Mofire]

I checked on Mr snake yesterday and he looks half way better and I say that because half of his head has shed its skin and half has not. He was out roaming this morning so I decided to try feeding him and he took some coaxing but he slammed a F/T pup. Yesterday he let me hold him for a bit so seems like he's settling down ok. Thanks for the help.


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[Mofire]

So time for a quick update since it's been a bit! I re weighed the little guy and he's 180 grams, I guess zeroing out the scale is kind of important. He has shed most of the skin off of his head and is generally cool with being handled now although he's not always happy about leaving his home. Speaking of homes, he upgraded his pad to a nice 20g terrarium and has been busy exploring. He's slamming to eat crawlers per week so once I'm out of them I'll go a size up.


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[cletus]

Very cool. He has some really nice lavender going on there. Really nice!

[LemonMeringuePython]

The camera sure likes your snake, Mofire. Those colors really pop in the pictures. Great looking ball python! I hope everything works out for your family and the new pet.

[Mofire]

So I decided to build a light box to photograph my little mans big adventure. Pictures might not be the best but he's growing good. Last time I weighed him h came in at 180 grams


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