New BP owner

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So corn snakes I believe are not legal in Puerto Rico, reptile shippers won’t bring them into the country and I haven’t found any breeders or petshops selling them (you may find one or 2 on classified sites but it’s not something I would chance) we had decided on a BP as a family before finding that out though, simply because they are more slow moving. As with any animal I know it falls on the parent to end up with it being their pet if the child looses, which is another reason we settled on a ball python due to my preference too.

the breeder never asked me to pay for food sorry if I didn’t make that clear I offered to pay for the frozen food while he was holding it until the holidays for me, every breeder I have found locally only feeds live, this one was happy to work with me and get a snake established eating frozen before we take it home... (which IMO is a sign of a good breeder willing to go that extra mile)

She wants one because they are a animal she doesn’t have to handle something she can watch at night explore her explanation has been it’s a more hands on pet then a fish but the same calming relaxed enjoyment of watching it in the evening. 🤷:cens0r:♀️ I feel like that’s a reasonable answer because they aren’t like a dog where they need that attention.

we are definitely not changing the type of snake we get despite the feeding issues lol This is the 1st time I’ve seen people say they wouldn’t recommend BPs for first time snake owners everything I’ve read over the past few months says they are the best or 2nd best (next to corn snakes).

im looking into different options for substrate we had a tortoise (who got stolen from his outdoor enclosure a few years ago) we used untreated soil in his enclosure, I’ve seen bio active soil as a option for ball pythons so I’ve started to slowly look into that