Looking To Rehome Juvenile Ball Python and Possibly Leopard Gecko

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My heart is rather heavy posting this if I am being honest, but I am trying to downsize my collection due to financial and lifestyle changes going on in my life. I want my little buddies to be cherished and get everything they need and more, and while I believe I am doing decently, I would like to find new owners for one or two of them that would enrich their lives and adore them even more than I can. I haven't been as responsible in my acquiring of animals as I wish to be, and I don't want that to impact their happiness. I also don't want to keep them just because I can't bear the thought of people finding me to be irresponsible... So here goes.

I am looking for a home for my juvenile female black pewter ball python. Her name is Cider, and I acquired her late January of 2024. She was a couple months old at the time, but I don't know how many because I believe the individual I bought her from to not be the most trustworthy, and I also cannot find the paper I had written the information I received about her on. I had another hatchling from the same man that I purchased along with her that appeared to not actually be ready for selling, and I only learned this after bringing him home. I was not knowledgeable or responsive enough in teaching him to eat, and he sadly passed away. Cider seems to be well though. After eating on and off for the first few months in my care, she has since eaten every meal I offer her. She is currently eating a frozen rat fuzzy every other week on saturday evenings around six o'clock, and is a big fan. She currently weighs 342g as of this May and poops, pees, and sheds well. I have had no medical concerns with her other than some whistling sounds when breathing for a day or two over a year ago, and it cleared up without developing discharge or sneezes. She is a sweet girl, but certainly shy and introverted as most young pythons are. She likes to stay tucked away in her hides but is usually poking her head out at night, and when their lights turn off around ten, I believe she goes for night time exploration like my other critters. She tolerates being removed from her enclosure for cleaning day each week, and recently seems to enjoy or at least not mind free roaming on some corkbark and blankets. She's definitely one that has to be watched closely though, as she goes right for anywhere she's not meant to go! She lives in a homemade tub enclosure with a plexiglass door and a couple drill holes on the side. The locks on the door have never failed me so far with any of my snakes, and can also be tightened if they get loose over time. The temp and humidity holds well, with the surface temp of her hot spot sticking to about 90-92F with a heat mat and although I don't measure her humidity, I find it super easy to keep her cocoa fiber moist. When I open the door, it is noticeably a little warmer and damper than my room. She also has an arcadia shadedweller UVB lamp affixed to the lid of her enclosure that stays on about 10-12 hours a day. She has two hides, a water dish, and a couple fake plants. I'm happy to give her enclosure and furnishings to whoever she goes to, but she is admittedly getting a bit big for it so I'm not sure how long it will last her!

I am also tentatively looking for a home for my adult female leopard gecko. I got her as a baby in late 2018, and she was my first ever reptile, which is why I am so conflicted over rehoming her. The truth is that I don't think I'm much of a gecko person. I adore them, but I think my love for them is more suited to enjoying ones that I don't own. She is happy as far as I can tell, and I love her dearly, but I feel that she deserves to belong to someone who loves her for both who she is AND what she is, not just the former. Someone that enjoys keeping leos. Ideally I would find her an owner that I could possibly visit, or at least can send pictures and updates now and then. Her name is Faramir, and she seems healthy and happy, though I wouldn't call her social. She likes her personal space, but will let you pick her up if you need to give her a look over or she needs to be put/moved somewhere. She doesn't mind small excursions on a bed or couch, but her favourite game is trying to sky dive so she has to be watched unless she's in a place that she can't hurt herself! Her first shed as a baby, I had to help pick a bit off her toes (she was shockingly comfortable with it) and she's shed completely on her own ever since! She once had some weird bacteria on her tail as a juvenile, but my vet gave me some betadine and after applying that every day it cleared right up. Sometimes she is skittish and will do a very brief tail wag or scamper into hiding, but other times she will walk right over to you and square up like she's showing off her muscles because she wants food! Very oddly, she loves hammering sounds... any time I've nailed something on the wall in my room, she has come out to stare with fascination. She also wants to eat my cat and does her begging for food behavior at him. Neither of them understand why I don't let them interact, haha. She lives in a large low exo terra that has admittedly seen better days (the lid is dented) but has held up fine, with some mix of soil that I don't remember as her substrate. There's some herp safe top soil, some bio dude mix, maybe a tiny bit of sand? She's never had any respiratory or digestive concerns, and I just pick out her poops every now and then. She has a cork bark maze that serves as lots of hiding space, a beloved warm hide, a slate rock, water dish, and a fake plant or two. She also has an arcadia deep heat projector hooked up to a VE-300 that keeps her sunning spot at about 92F and has a small drop at night. She's lit with an arcadia shadedweller for about 10-12 hours a day, and eats 2-3 appropriately sized dubias a week dusted with calcium and multivitamin powder. I would also be happy to give her set up to her hypothetical new home, but I would like to negotiate a price for it because it is a lot more supplies and money than my ball python set ups (especially the thermostat, yeesh lol) I would be happy to provide my dubia colony too, which is pleeenty enough to feed her. Those little fellas eat dubia diet from dubia.com and fresh oranges. I get a couple weird ugly ones sometimes, but I just cull those ones and the others seem well.

Pictures of Cider: https://imgur.com/gallery/cider-1dwLrTC

Pictures of Faramir: https://imgur.com/gallery/faramir-Pcnjygl

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Oh my goodness I'm a bit of a dingbat. I meant to put somewhere in the post that I live in Columbia, Missouri. I would be able to travel to adjacent states if needed for handing off as long as scheduling is able to be worked out :)