Ball Python Care

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[astrix]

Glad someone used the word sweetheart. That’s exactly what I call mine so gentle 🥺

[Bfamreef]

Mine is very active at night. She lives in a 55 gallon tank and makes use of the full tank. You are right about finicky eating and in the first year it was hard but as she got older it was less of a problem. My advice is get away from live food asap. Great video I enjoyed it.

[willeatforfree]

I feel I have been very lucky with the ball python I adopted a few months ago. He's my first snake, and with the exclusion of nipping me when he was getting used to being handled, has been an absolute sweetie. He switched to f/t immediately and has taken every meal since. I feel very fortunate, as I feel I might have been discouraged from snake keeping if I had encountered more challenging eating problems when I first got him. This is part of why knowing your snake's history is so important! Thank you for bringing more awareness to proper ball python keeping. :)

[juliew]

It's so crazy that you had such a bad experience w/ BPs in the past. I have 13 BPs and have never had a defensive or bitey one. I have had most of them from baby stage. I just love them, obviously. We also have a Blood Python, who is also a sweetheart. I guess we've been lucky so far. Now that I've said this, my next snake will be a devil. Now I've done it.

[exoticswithsteph]

Honestly I wanted a ball python for so long until I did more research and found out they are not the species of snake for me. I admire their beauty the most but I am not wanting to deal with the stress that may come with a bp. Research changed my mind and prevented me from getting a long lived animal that wouldn't have been a good fit for me.. thank god for research!! Still love them from afar though 💛💛

[ashleycloud]

I’d love to have one of these beauties in the future

[StickyFeets]

I also second that ball pythons are not recommended for a beginner. Even with proper husbandry, humidity, rack system, small and dark enclosure, my youngest ball Peaches has been my problem child since I’ve had him for over a year. He’s super picky and will only take live or prekilled. When switching to frozen, I figured he won’t eat anything that’s wet so I have to thaw out his meals separately from the others to keep it dry. Bps are definitely very rewarding pets but their pickiness with feeds is the sole reason I don’t recommend them for the novice.

[TheSacralHealer]

I feel really lucky. I got my first BP last month and he has ate all four meals since I brought him home. I was concerned because the breeder said he was on live but assured me I could switch him over and he wasn’t wrong (f/T) He’s not defensive actually quite calm just a lil head shy and I handle him ever now and then but havent been over doing it, when I first held him at repticon it felt like we had an instant connection so maybe that’s it but idk 🤷🏽‍♀️ 🥰 his name is Paul btw 🐍 (like the alien 👽) I just added some new things to his enclosure today he’s out exploring now

[stevenbetancur]

Just recently got my first ball python. It’s a banana looks very similar to yours and he has been great. Eats like a champ and has such a great personality. But I do agree I would have been panicking if he wasn’t eating. Great video!

[NitroMedic]

Chaos is sooo adorable! Great vid, as always!

[saveriopanaccione]

My ball python is one of my most mellow reptiles ever. He’s 4 years old and I had him for 4 years

[BXJAR]

Thank u for refreshing my memory u know I got my blue eyes Lucy in a 30 gallon n I had snakes in tanks n they do great

[lea_e]

For the size of the tanks, I think that it’s ok if your tank is rather small, as long as your snake gets taken out often to exercise and stretch and get the right circulation that’s needed for the noodle

[Estelle_playze]

my bp lives in a 6ft-5ft-5ft vivarium and i use a basking lamp because heat mats cook them alive and they can get burns with it. lamps also do a day and night cycle and if they are always in the dark, it can shorten their lifespan. otherwise, great video

[StormGhost]

I have a Baby Ball Python and she is my world she is getting use to me

[xeniahaberditz]

I have a 2.5yo GHI Mojave. Had Salazar since he was 3mth (the breeder want them to eat at least 10-15 meals before selling them). Such a beauty with his dark greyish base color and pale yellow spine spots 😍 during my 1st year I changed from wooden with heat cable and CHE enclosure to glass with UTH and sphagnum moss. That change made him definitely more exploring and I guess generally more mentally stimulated. BP make OK animals for racks, but a decorated tank will always be better for their mental stimulation imo.

Planing on getting a blue eyed lucy, purple passion and coral glow in the future. If possible even setting up for each a bioactive enclosure.

[RedWolf-vcny]

I purchased a ball python on monday and was told wednesday was her feeding day. Left a frozen thawed small mouse in her tub and within 30mins she had taken and eaten it. She was hatched last september on the 16th 😊 She's absolutely beautiful.

[electricshock]

My baby ball python eats frozen I had to rub the mice in used mouse bedding from the pet store but that did it for her might work for others

[dazzle]

I'm getting one on my birthday (it's a coincidence lol) and I've done research for about a year and I'm so excited ! I'm getting a normal pied and I need name ideas please !!( i don't know the gender yet)

[mtl.fc]

Early! My Snek coco is 1 year on Feb the 18th! 😊💕