what do you wish you had known before your first ball python? and good UK breeders?

[Zincubus]

I wish I new that they can quite easily stop feeding for months on end with no bad effects then just start again with no explanation. !

Also that when snakes have been in shed mode and their eyes clear up and their colour returns to normal there is no point tearing their viv apart looking for the sheds skin

( it comes off a few days later )