hey everyone, I'm Gib, or whatever you want to call me I am about to get my first ball python this evening. He is said to be captive bred, about 18 inches long, eating small mice (thawed), living in a 20L tank with a heating pad under the tank and a heat lamp (with no light) on the top which is a screen lock top. he'll be on reptibark to begin with and he mentioned some kind of humidity set up with moss in the tank too. The guy wanted $200, but went down to $150 for the whole set up.

I was referred here by someone on another board to answer some of my more in-depth snake questions... granted I'd love any suggestions on any part of snake ownership! Monte will be my first pet snake, but my sister/roommate has a red albino corn she's raised up from a hatchling that fit in the bottom of a coffee cup! Nugget (the corn) also eats dead food and is my only day to day experience with keeping a snake although I worked in pet stores and cared for snakes before back then...Nugget will at some point be moving into Monte's tank and I'll be upgrading his. Not really soon, but once the 20L is almost too small!

I was wondering about sexing and the concern for egg binding in females who are not bred... I don't know how snake sex and reproduction works, so I don't understand at what point the release an egg etc...

Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks in advance
~Gibby