Thanks! Yes, I imagine she went into the barrel due to some lingering rodent smells...Originally Posted by Bogertophis
Love your "side stories"! I'm so glad you found your dumpster-diving Dreamsicle.
I'd imagine she was drawn in by some lingering aromas? Funny what a motivated snake can do...
BTW, I feel for ya...that used to be me when I had a house-full (& I do mean FULL) of snakes..."staggering around from exhaustion". I'm old enough to know better now. I do still miss having rattling roomies, but it's very nice just having a few pet rat snakes these days in terms of upkeep.
My ball python collection is not much work most of the year, however, I have been spending so much more time on it lately trying to keep conditions optimum for females who may decide to lay eggs (e.g. spot clean 3X/day, change water 2x/week, full enclosure disinfection/week, offering all-you-can-eat/every 7 days). My snake room is not air conditioned, but, can easily reach 89F. When the temperatures outside are hot-higher temperatures=faster metabolism=more cleaning=more work...
Sometimes I think about scaling back my collection to maybe 100 ball pythons and 'taking it easy'. But, then I think: Life is short.
Photo #521
Hunk of agate from the mid-west USA with a Het piebald ball python.
Breeders Note: I also produced a super small Banana hatchling last week.
~25mm when balled up, these super small hatchlings make me nervous because it becomes a very fine line between non-eating and starvation.
If they get started properly though they will reach full size without issue.
I was going to add a photo here, but Ball-Pythons.net is not allowing it at the moment.
I will add a photo of the super small in the following post (if I can).
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