I picked him up in a city a couple hours away from a breeder I found on Craigslist. I just didn't examine him well enough when I picked him up so that's on me and he was curled up in a ball so I didn't notice he was so skinny and wrinkly until I got home and moved him out of his box. This is my first ball python, I've had a corn snake before but never a ball. Thanks for that vet source.

I think the guy I got the snake from is a hobby breeder so he didn't give me any kind of guarantee, it seems I'm learning a lot of things the hard way right now. I really want to keep him, he's such a beautiful little thing but I should still be able to talk to the breeder if he ends up not getting better at all soon but it seems this guy knows about as much as I do about ball pythons if he's feeding them pinkies. The breeder said he hatched in November 2021 but didn't give me an actual date.

Yes I have been keeping a close eye on him in the bath and I put a thermometer in the water to make sure it was a good temperature, it was about 86 degrees so he should be okay.

He's done with the bath now and I put him in his warm hide. He struggled a bit and managed to poke his head out and he's just resting now, hasn't moved for about a half hour.