Ball Python Quirks? (For Fun)

[mischiefneko]

I always get home late from work (2am+) and check the rack. So falling into habit I'll find some cruising their tubs. My killer bee fire is always doing her weirdo dances. She's derpy as hell with the wobble but its cute to see her all excited. I'll check her tub, replace any soiled paper and rinse her hide and she's back in relaxing.
My lesser male moves his hide around constantly. Sometimes I find it over the water bowl. Its like they're waiting for me to get home to interact with them, then they're back in the hide satisfied.

I get home about midnight and sometimes Loki will be out and about. I know he wants to be held when he is nudging the top of his tank. If I open it, he'll curl around my wrist and slither up my arm.
I like the wobble, I think it's cute.

I have one that lives on his cool side also. He will cruise through his hide on the warm side and then go get back in his hide on the cool side. Hides are identical but he likes it cooler I guess. My other one, she will venture out only when she’s hungry, she will go to the middle of the tank and set there for hours staring. Once you feed her she is back in the cave. She had her first shed this morning so she has that new snake look again.

Yea, that living on the cool side thing scared me so bad when I first got him! Even after eating he'll stay on his cool side. SOMETIMES He'll hang out in his warm for a couple hours, then right back to the cool.

ALSO TO ADD. Loki refuses proper sized hides. I realized after I brought him home his hides were too small. But he'll curl up in them, some sticking out. And apparently that's fine! I got him some good sized ones, where he'd actually fit, and he'd rather sit in the open and stare at me. Once I put the smaller ones back, he curled up in them. Like, why do you feel safer with some of your body hanging out?