Got him a few days ago... wouldnt stay still for a good pic so just took a video (still blurry but oh well). Can get a good view of his pattern towards the end of the video though.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=L-td1pF0RSg

Looks delicious! BBQ snake anyone?

Nice, I used to have 3 pretty big ones years ago!

How nice, what a cutie. Whos side of the family does she resemble?

Nice, I used to have 3 pretty big ones years ago!

all ball pythons? this is the first I've actually kept... dealt with snakes quite a bit in the past though. As a college student in an apartment it works quite well... dont have to feed often, quiet, needs little space ect.

Currently using the 10 gallon tank my g/f kept hermit crabs in (those died). cleaned it out and set it up for the snake. Bought a 20 gallon tank with a nice cover yesterday though. gonna move it over when I would need to clean the tank anyways.

I currently have a heating pad for the warm side which works quite well but thinking I might get a heating light since the general temperature is a bit low.

Awww he is so cute!!! I want a snake but couldnt bring myself to feed him. I love holding them though, they are so soft... Closest I can do is my iguana and he is so frickin mean I cant hold him. What is the Mazda thing sitting in front of the TV? Looked like a engine cover but too boxed off...

Awww he is so cute!!! I want a snake but couldnt bring myself to feed him. I love holding them though, they are so soft... Closest I can do is my iguana and he is so frickin mean I cant hold him. What is the Mazda thing sitting in front of the TV? Looked like a engine cover but too boxed off...

that's the engine cover lol. My nitrous nozzle gets in the way of it sitting right but when I install CRH's spacer plate it'll go back in the car... though I have considered using it as an actual decoration.

LOL... ey, maybe I will use my extra one as wall art.. Good Idea.

I like the placement of the renesis engine cover there in the back of the pic :P

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=F6gZE0MdaVY&feature=related

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I had 2 males and a female...males were close to 4 feet long, and the female was maybe 2.5 feet. I had them in a 55 gallon tank.

Definintely have the heating pad on one side. They need their stomachs to be warm (I think 80 degrees) after they eat. Give them some sticks to climb on...and make sure you have a flourescent light with a full spectrum bulb. This will give them the UV rays (it has to be flourescent....you can't get true UV rays from a screw-in light bulb). They will absorb vitamins (or something like that) through their skin with the UV. It's good to also have a heat lamp on top if the tank gets cold.

Give him a water bowl large enough for it to climb into...it'll want to sit in the water when he is ready to shed. The sticks in the tank will help get the skin off, too. I always had an air bubbler (the same ones you put in a fish tank) running in the water bowl, and that put moisture in the air...and helps a TON with their shedding. Sometimes when they shed (it happened more when my snakes were older), their eye caps won't shed. You'll know it, because their eye(s) won't be nice and shiny like the rest of their body...just get a piece of scotch tape and put the sticky side on their eye, and the eye cap will pop right off.

let's see...feed it in a box...not the tank. If you feed it in the tank, it will associate the tank opening with possible food being dropped in...and it will be more likely to strike. I had 3 boxes, one for each snake.

Make sure you have good, strong clips on for the lid of the tank! Putting a rock, or something like that won't work!

okay...that was a pretty good brain dump there!

i was wondering why the dude in the video fed his mouse in a separate box.

not for the squeamish.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4vIfmlVuIOk

Yeah, I learned that one the hard way. Got bit a few times over the years. I did learn that if you don't rip your hand away when they bite, it hurts a lot less!

yeah, knew most of that... the cage I have (will be using soon) is pretty nifty... it has a sliding top with latches so it cant be pushed up and the latches prevent it from sliding. Gonna be getting a heating lamp cause the heating pad leaves it a few degrees too cool on the cool side of the tank.