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I’m just seeing this now. I don’t think I can offer much help because we are pretty much in the same boat. Seems like we got our snakes around the same time and they are feeeding the same. My guy are his third straight meal last night.

I’ve yet to see or smell one turd... not sure what that means I did some research and it seems they can go a while and not so I hope this is the case. Thunder just shed for the first time with me on Friday I thought there may be a turd then. But no.

I was also also wondering about the signs for shed because I saw another post where the person got yelled at for handling during shed and I don’t want to stress the snakes or get yelled at haha!

im going to weigh and start handling my guy this week. I too got a scale a few days ago.

I csn guve two bits of advice though. My first would be order food. First off it’s way cheaper and you have it on hand all the time. I ordered from perfect prey and their stuff is nice and clean and well packed. I ordered a current size and a size up to justify the shipping and all. But local places charge a grip per Mouse and I’ve hesrd stories of urine covered rodents and all.

Second and not even sure orhers experience here but I was browsing apps for something to store my info like weights feedings missed meals sheds issues and came across this one called reptile manager. It was $1.99 and super easy to use with a lot of features. I even had a question and I emailed them and had a response in like 20 min so I am sold especially for 2 bucks.
Yeah ball pythons are different, as I am learning. With my red tails, the male never wanted to be bothered while in shed, but my female was a bit of a phenomenon. One time while she was in shed, after her eyes had cleared up, I was spot cleaning her tank and noticed she had gotten the shed started on her head. She came over to me and rubbed her head up against my hand. I made a little tunnel with my hand and she passed through rubbing her body against the inside as she went and working the shed off little by little. She stopped, I took her out her her tank and was sitting with her on the floor. She explored a little bit and then came back over to me and started rubbing against my jeans and working the shed off a little more. I let her finish on her own in the tank, but she occasionally would do things like that whenever in shed after that.

I have been thinking about ordering and perfect prey was one of the companies out there I’ve been looking at. I’m one of those “I have to see it in person” before I buy it, kind of guys so that’s what has made me hesitant. At least in the store I can sift through the frozen sand compare sizes since they vary a bit. I know, I know. It’s me... lol

I will definitely look into that app. I hadn’t even thought of that. Thanks!


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