Questions about what you personally enjoy about your animals / just general questions

[zina10]

I only have ball pythons. At first I got one because they are docile, fairly large, and easy to handle. Then I enjoyed watching it in its enclosure, more than handling it. It is true that they hide most of the time, but at night they come out and I have exoterra night bulbs, which are very dim purple "moonlight" heat bulbs. The ball pythons love to come out at night and crawl around my three large Neodesha display cages. I also have 8 other snakes in a rack system. I use the largest tubs possible and put hides in the tubs, so they can move around and regulate their temperature.

I MUCH PREFER THE NEODESHA DISPLAY CAGES! It is very enjoyable for me to watch them come out at night and hang out. My large normal female is super friendly and extroverted. She will hang out in the open basking in the heat lamp for hours. When I slide open the glass doors, she slithers towards me nonchalantly like, "hey, lets hang out, what is happening?"

The ball pythons that live in the rack, I really don't get to enjoy them much at all. I never see them, and basically just enjoy feeding them once per week, and as we all know, even that can be frustrating when they refuse to eat for whatever reason. I am enjoying the morphs and the idea of breeding, hence the rack system to keep multiple snakes. If and when I ever retire form the breeding projects, I will probably sell off all of my collection, save for my favorite most extroverted 3 snakes, which I will keep in the Neodesha's as pets.

I love my Neodesha slant cage. And I loved the 6 I used to have (4 footers) but I sold them prior to a move. Now I only have the one 36 inch cage.

Just a couple of weeks ago I decided to update to the 4 ft. one and guess what...they don't make them anymore !!! I'm so upset. I really think they make the NICEST display cages ever. Wide open view. Easy to maintain heat and humidity, easy to clean. And none of those PVC concerns.

I decided to look for used ones, but no luck, all way to far away and as paranoid as I am, I would have a hard time with used until I bleach them for days.


You got very lucky with those 3 you got.


Eventually, when I decide to stop breeding, I will only have 3 to 6 animals or so, and I will handpick my favorites from my own hatchlings. Personality and looks wise We all know they will be Desert Ghost somethings