I'm noob here so first what I have done is read FAQs. Is that possible I have bit different experience so far that some answers are? Is my snake that different or I have been making some mistake or what? Let me share and please give me some opinion . Thanks in advance...



Quote Originally Posted by Malpaso View Post
I have heat rock with thermostat (I have set max temp as 35°C/95F) and operation only during day cycle. I have read somewhere snake need some heat source from bottom to be able digest better... dunno...
Your snake does need heat to digest properly. So that means your snake wants to curl up in a hide and have belly heat. Do you have a hide on top of your heat rock? If not its useless.


Quote Originally Posted by Malpaso View Post
Really no drop? So... is in Africa the same temperature during day and night? . I have read many times that drop is needed as part of day/night cycle for reptiles... however temperature must never drop below 21°C/70F. That's what I have read... so my average temp during day is 26°C-27°C/78-80F and during night 23-24°C/73-75F. Is that really bad?
Like everyone is saying, your snake stays in a burrow in the ground most of the time. When it comes out it comes out to find food and then goes in a burrow. The only time its out for long is during breeding season. So provide a night drop if you are breeding. Otherwise don't bother. Its harder for you to provide and hurts your snake. Remember that your snake needs the heat to digest properly. When you lower the temp you slow down the digestion process.

Quote Originally Posted by Malpaso View Post
No UVB needed at all? UVB is for optimal calcium metabolism plus converts vitamin D into vitamin D3. So guy from local terra-shop has recommended me this
Lets say you had a bat. The flying mammal kind, and I said, "Hey your bat needs UV light to metabolize calcium and convert d to d3." What would you assume. Would you assume that you need to provide a UV bulb or that both you and I don't really understand bats bio chemistry that well since they are nocturnal and all.

Quote Originally Posted by Malpaso View Post
Big surprise for me what she thinks is good hide . I have prepared amazing hide from old wood (scrubbed with heat to be sure it's not contaminated). Really luxury hide on the ground, wide to provide colder and warmer end... however she has chosen to hide behind plant "on the first floor" (left-middle dark side in pictures below)
I looked at the picture of your enclosure and I do not see any hides. I see places that your snake goes to try and hide. Your snake sits there scared poopless then thinks damn I gotta find a better place to hide.

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She loves to climb! I have seen her only once on the ground for my eyes... I'm sure she is on the ground only for two reasons: poop (right corner) and drink (left corner) see picture below )
Ahhh where can I hide, maybe over here......no.....maybe if I climb over there......no.....ahhhhhh.

Your snake is looking for a place to hide. It wants out of that enclosure.

I got some new hides from reptile basics last night. I am not making this up. I though, man these look a bit large for her. I took her hide off, put the new hide over her. I looked back 10 minutes later she had left the new hide on the warm side and gone to the nice tight hide on the cold side. So I took the big hide out and put the little one back and now she is back in the little one.

This is why you offer the small hide. You offer what the care sheet says to offer. If your snake is doing something different from the rest of ours. Do you think its because your ball python is totally different from everyone else's, or you are doing something wrong. Not to be mean, but think about it.