I wanted my fiancé to have a little piece of Lenny with him on our wedding day, so I surprised him with custom cufflinks engraved with Lenny’s face.
Since Lenny can’t exactly attend the wedding, this felt like the perfect way to include our snake baby. They came out so cute! 🐍

Anyone else have a ball python who’s obsessed with their hair? My noodle son Nimbus loves to sit on my bun and just hang out with me while I watch tv, fold clothes, etc. Sometimes he sits his head on my forehead like a little snake tiara lol. Nimbus says hi 🖤

Attila back in action

Here’s where my love story began💫
I wanned a BP for a lil while and only 3 weeks ago I had the chance to realize this dream; 3 years old BP that I named Joey.
I was randomly scrolling on marketplace to find affordable stuff for my future snake, when I saw him. Two days after, I was on the road (2h trip) to see him. I’d say I saved his life. He belonged to a teenage boy whose mom was scared of snakes, he had him for a whole year. He never changed or cleaned the terrarium except for spott cleaning, the temperature wasn’t enough at all, everything was so dry, the substrate was full of mold and the hides were wayy too small. Plus, he had no name, what a shame! Anyway, I did a health check and he seemed great!
I took him home w me, gave him a name, bought a proper heat lamp, new hides and branches, and as soon as I could, i cleaned and emptied the whole terrarium. He now has a beautiful clean house with perfect humidity care. Also, his owner wasn’t taking him out, he had no stimulation at all. I’m working on getting him used to handling, he’s still shy but I see a nice evolution. I give him time with different objects, plants and some outside time with me. He’s really curious and I can’t be more in love with him than I am rn. 💕

I got my first snake around the end of July and he REFUSED to eat since I got him. I tried every suggestion I could find online but nothing worked. Finally last night I left a mouse in his tank overnight again and this morning it was gone. Go figure right after I ordered some slightly smaller mice in case the ones I had were too big or something.

I’m thinking it was potentially because I got him from a not very good pet store that apparently buys reptiles and then immediately resells them. I didn’t know their reputation at the time since I didn’t see anything online about that and only found out when I was visiting another local pet store a couple weeks later.

My girl isn’t eating , she’s widening her jaws a lot , i also think she might be showing signs of some scale rot or a bad shed & she’s also been glass surfing quite a bit. all bad signs from what i’ve watched so far and im also having trouble keeping a good temp for her

Mr. Clam Chowder had his first shed with us!! He has one small patch retained near the bottom half of his body, but I was able to confirm his eye caps and tail tip did come off cleanly. His humidity has been around 70-74%, so I think I’m gonna aim more towards 80% and hopefully his next shed will be perfect. Gonna keep this piece and maybe put it into a small frame as a memento <33

So I’ve had feeding issues with my ball python and ever since I got him. He would only eat rat fuzzies every 3 weeks. In desperation I gave him large mice instead and he ate them enthusiastically every week for months and put on quite a bit of weight. I was elated. Now that he is 400 grams he needed larger food so I got him weaned rats. Ik that rats are the most nutritious for them so I had always planned on switching. Well he won’t eat the rats. I tried giving him XL mice, he ate one but never had interest in eating any more. After a month long hunger strike I caved and cave him a large mouse like he was used to which he took happily. I’ve once again started trying to transition him to weaned rats and am loosing hope *sigh* he’s still young and I really don’t want his growth to slow.

What I’ve done:
-heating weaned rat with large mouse so they can smell similar?
-Blow drying prey (shows interest but leaves once he sees what it is)
-braining
- increasing humidity by 10%

Enclosure parameters:
50 gallon (planning on upgrading to 4x2x2 once eating consistently again)
Humidity at 70%
Hot side 94F cool side 72F

My boyfriend found our ball python out of his enclosure last night. After hearing little things fall to the floor he was found checking out my miniature displays. He said it took him and his brother 10 minutes to get him out of my miniatures. This is his first time ever escaping. Silly snake.

Hi, I got my 2 month old ball python about a month ago. Less than a week after arriving, he regurgitated a mouse his breeder fed him before shipping him out. I was pretty concerned about his health and convinced myself he was acting abnormally, so I took him to the emergency vet. They told me he was fine, he was just stressed from the move and needed time to adjust. About a week after that, I started offering him frozen/thawed mice, but he’s refused them week after week. It’s been a month since I got him, and he has not eaten. I don’t know what to do and I’m terrified because he’s so young. If this is a stress thing, I don’t want to make it worse by taking him back to the vet. What should I do?? I don’t think the husbandry is the problem, I’ve kept a very close eye on it

Edit: I have no access to live feeder mice

I'll be getting this beautiful girl at the end of the week and she'll be my first ever snake, im so excited! I have a 40gallon tank with mesh locking lid im getting for her, the breeders keep her in a tote. They mentioned the heating lamp/light might un nerve her since she's used to a heating mat. I have a ton of hides/driftwood/foliage etc on the way and I plan on giving her plenty of places to hide to help her feel more comfortable. My biggest question(s) are -

Will switching her over to overhead lights cause any negative effects?

What's the best way to help her transition to being in a tank and not overwhelm her?

What are some great tips you wish you knew sooner about owning one? I love to learn and im excited to see how i can take the best care of her!

I am pretty tight right now because of a lot of flood damage, I live in a rural area So shipping is a no. So I drive 4 hours to go get pinky mice and fuzzies, I do it all the time and I put them on ice and ice packs, but I don't know what went wrong this time because they partially defrosted some of them are squishy. I don't know if the insides are defrosted. But they're cold, the ice, didn't melt. Can I still freeze them? Are they still good. I won't be able to get food till next month.

Please help. Ive bought and tried everything I can possibly think of to hold the humidity in her tank but nothing is working. I’m at a complete loss. I just want to be a good snake mom and give my baby the life she deserves but I can’t ever get her tank to go above 50% humidity unless I mist it, which I know you’re not supposed to do, and it only lasts for a few minutes. Im scared to health she’s going to die just like my last snake.

ETA: I just added reptisoil in with her coconut chips and changed the heating elements from solely a ceramic heat emitter 24/7 to UVB and UVA during the day and ceramic bulb at night. The humidity is currently the lowest I’ve ever seen it, at 34%. Nothing is working and I’m devastated. I’ve spent so much money trying to give her the life she deserves. I feel like such a bad snake mom.

Ive been trying everything ti get my ball pythons shed off. ive soaked her for 10 to 15 mins in luke warm water. ive increased humidty, ive tried the humidity chambers thst you can make. nothing hes helped. i dont know if im doing something wrong or whats going on. I really just need any advice please

Very stressed out about this, so help needed please!

My 5 month old ball python has started glass surfing constantly, esp during the day, pacing the enclosure a bit, and constantly trying to get out. He’s also on a hunger strike possibly, since he denied his mouse this week. He just shed, and he was dormant the entirety of that and a bit after. I fed him last Tuesday, a week from today and after his shed, a pinky mouse (I know that’s way small, i have hoppers too and he has had no interest in them, the pinky’s were all he would take. Tried a hopper this week and he refused.) and he glass surfed after that, which I researched and decided it was probably because it was too small.
I changed his substrate, which has gotten dangerously damp and he was at a risk of scale rot on it, on Friday, and he started surfing on Saturday. Though I’ve heard that they can get stressed with substrate changes, I don’t think it lasts this long so I have no idea what it is. My only guess is that my temperature is off, which it is (80-84 warm side) and he’s just now reacting to it? His tank is a 40 gallon, and fully stretched out, he doesn’t touch the other side of it with room to grow; he’s about 22-24 inches. His humidity is a good 55-70 as well.

Yesterday, I bought a reptile thermostat, new 100w bulbs for the thermostat, a probed hydrometer, and another small hide to help clutter his tank. They all come tmrw, so I’m really hoping that’ll help.

I am very upset and stressed about this, I’ve had a lot of problems with this snake, and when I finally thought I was doing it right after he shed in full and ate for me twice, I guess I was wrong again. I am a little worried I’ll never be able to fully care for him, and I’m starting to fear having to surrender him due to the amount of stress this has been (if anyone wants the full story ask in the comments) but I really don’t want to, I love him so much, and I just want him to be okay. I’m just starting to not know what to do.

any questions, comments or concerns are SO appreciated please!! I’f I’m doing something wrong so let me know! Please tell me!

Hey Everyone, so I recently adopted this ball python from a rescue based here in Maryland that has been rehomed twice. Upon receiving the snake, I have noticed a slight wheeze only when he is active and moving on me while also these spots being present under his chin area, they are brown almost black colored. Would you all recommend an immediate vet visit or is this something im just not used to with ball pythons as all my other snakes are colubrids.

This little one is in Petsmart near Albany. Poor guy needs help. Bad shed, possible scale rot on his nose, his skin is slack. His holding cell had no hygrometer/thermometer.

I would take him in, but I don’t have the quarantine space and my wife would divorce .