Quote Originally Posted by JMH View Post
Hello, I got our first ball in June at the Repticon show in Jacksonville and our 2nd at the Daytona show. My brother in law got the 1st one for my daughter which I ended up taking care of. It got an RI and I had to give it shots and he never tried to bite me. He is well now and a nice calm snake that is never aggressive, will just hang out. My other daughter wanted one for herself and it had to be a female. The 2nd one is ornery and hisses at me when I go into her tank at all. She is all over her tank at night and does not wrap around my hand when I hold her, just tries to crawl right off.

Anyway I have them both in Glass tanks as well as a beardie in a 40 long. I was never a snake person but do like the Ball Pythons now due to the male and would like a spider and maybe an albino next year. I have been looking at the stackable type setups like vision and the ones from custom cages since I don't have room for a bunch of glass tanks in my house. Any advice on these?
First off you need to seperate those animals, a ball python should be housed by itself, and definatly not with a baerdie in the same tank... Ball pythons can fight with each other and do regularly display dominance over each other... If you ever see them laying together and one is on top of the other, the one on top is displaying dominance...

The snake that is giving you problems is probably very stressed out, they are very secretive creatures that enjoy solitude... Also a 40g long tank is too big, a 20g long tank will keep a BP for thier entire life.