yet another 'my bp is not eating' thread

[PitOnTheProwl]

Additionally, my research has concluded in the fact that larger spaces are OK as long as you have enough clutter for them to feel invisible in their enclosure. I have done so with vines, multiple tight hides, and the privacy curtain which is used at night. This is advice from multiple other forums, all of which linked to detailed research about this.
If you have other advice, I am open to it, but on substrate and container size, she is not being moved.

I would re-research your research...... Your animal is not eating or a reason and at that size it should be.
There are many well experienced keepers here, many that have been doing it for decades and Deb is one that is always on point.

If you want to hurl insults at me, demean me, and act with hostility towards me because I made informed choices that differ from your opinion, I guess that speaks to the kind of person you are. Since you are a super moderator, I guess that speaks to the character of these forums. I was warned that this forum was full of misguided and ill-informed herpers, but I was hoping for a fifth opinion on what is going on. The other people were correct about this forum. Anyone who thinks that aspen is a viable choice for a substrate for a ball python is not someone I want to assist me. To keep aspen mold free, it would need to be changed at least 3 times a week. I am not going to be stressing my BP out and messing with her 3 times a week. It is not that I am lazy and don't want to clean her enclosure. I check the water and look for waste every day. It is that aspen is a poor choice for a high humidity snake. It might be perfectly fine for corn snakes or other snakes that do not have high humidity needs, but for BP's it is sub-optimal. I do not see how putting my BP onto sub-optimal substrate, and then bothering her three times a week to change it would actually help her get eating.

What insults or hostility? Please stop with the pity party and read what is posted, you can feel how you want but you might what to read a post for what it is and not adlib to what you want to envision it to be.
FYI aspen will mold if you keep it too wet but myself and many others don't have a problem with it and can usually get it last close to a month with spot cleanings before a substrate change. Also shredded doesn't seem to mold as quickly as flakes.


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