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Jordan700
Joined: 29 May 2006
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Location: Petaluma, California
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 Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:58 pm Post subject: SOMEBODY SAY SOMETHING!!!!! |
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Somebody please ask something, say something, suggest something, just SAY SOMETHING!!!
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RonCrawford
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Location: Pottsville, PA (USA)
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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Um, something? lol
I just set the boards to private so a person can't simply come in and read the posts. They must register in order to see the posts. Hope this helps. 
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Jordan700
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Location: Petaluma, California
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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Hopefully it will, I have noticed a couple more people have joined over the last few days. srry for the crazy outburst 
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deborahbroadus
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Location: Baltimore, MD
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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Jordan, 
In the course of caring for your herp(s), have you come across any good ideas that you want to pass on to us?
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Jordan700
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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Nothing that I can think of at the moment. What about you?
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deborahbroadus
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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Only the aquarium idea so far. 
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Moshi
Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 303
Location: Pinellas Park Fl
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:22 am Post subject: |
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How about, "hi I'm new?"
I... didn't feel like making another "hi I'm new" topic.
ANYway! Yeah, I'm new to the site and new to ball pythons as well. In fact, I've had my snake for about... 12 hours less then a week. I... don't know how well I'm doing ^.^;;; Will you all forgive me if I've messed up?
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deborahbroadus
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:02 am Post subject: |
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| Moshi wrote: | How about, "hi I'm new?"
I... didn't feel like making another "hi I'm new" topic.
ANYway! Yeah, I'm new to the site and new to ball pythons as well. In fact, I've had my snake for about... 12 hours less then a week. I... don't know how well I'm doing ^.^;;; Will you all forgive me if I've messed up? |
Welcome Moshi  Ah, an impluse purchase? They can sneak upon a person, especially if we see or hear of someone having one 8)
For starters, I would do a bit of researching, perhaps purchase the complete Ball Pythons manual to have on hand like a "Bible." 
If it's still alive you aren't doing too badly, so don't beat yourself up. Balls need very little space, but some people like to have them in tank set ups. The tank setups are pretty, everyone has an opinion about them; tupperware works fine also. It depends on your pocketbook and what you want. Whatever you decide will have to be kept according to your pet's needs and he/she will need a place where you can monitor the temps and humidity. That's the MOST important thing to keep in mind.
The temps will need to be in the 90/85 range. 90 on the hot side and 85 on the cool side and the humidity needs to be in the 50/60 range. Where ever the humidity is coming from, you will need to be able to boot it up when necessary (that's another subject).
They don't need heat lamps, most breeders wouldn't recommend them, Belly heat is best. (UTH). If you do decide to go the tank route, and want a lamp to make everything pretty, (who doesn't?) just be sure not to place the lamp directly over the UTH or water..Heat lamps can make the water or Uth too hot and burn your snake.
Those are the basics...food is another issue. :wink: Tell us what your set up is: housing, humidity, temps, and we can give more effective advice...and PLEASE post a pic..we LOVE pics here!
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Moshi
Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 303
Location: Pinellas Park Fl
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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So far I think the worst thing I've done is stressed her out. I think I handled her too much and didn't give her enough time to ajust to her new home. I need to buy a thermomiter and humidity gage.
Ok, so right now I have a 19 inch ball python and I don't know if she was cb or wc (is that the right abreviation?) or her age. I was told that I have a female though.
Her home is a 10 gal tank with a screen lid. I put a heavy box on top to prevent escape. It's resting on the frame not the screen. Inside I have: an un-tipping water bowl (its about the size of a cereal bowl), piece of actual drift wood that I got from a lake(I cleaned it before I put it in the cage), a pop tart box with a hole cut in the side (I didn't know I needed a hide box till I checked the internet), news paper bedding (I cut two peices to size to put on the bottom and shreaded the rest of the sheet and put it on top), last and least, a heat rock (I said I didn't do any research, everyone seems to tell me I shouldn't have gotten one).
Actualy, my snake (her name is Takara by the way) isn't the only one in the house. My older brother has adopted our cousins bp. A four and a half foot long female named Konani. We've had her for about a month. Konani's tank (which we also got from our cousin) has a heat rock, a glass pie pan for a water dish and a pillow case. No bedding. Konani seems perfectly happy. She eats. She explores. Her last shed came off in one piece.
Here is my pic of Takara.
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deborahbroadus
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| Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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Since Ron is the resident expert and owner, I'll wait for his response to your post. I have heard a lot of negative about heat rocks, but no actual experience (I followed the suggestions).
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RonCrawford
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Get that heat rock out of the tank QUICKLY and replace it with a UTH (under the tank heater) on a rheostat or dimmer. The heat rock can and most likely WILL cause serious burns and injuries.
Take a look at the ball python care articles here on the website to learn more about your animal as well as proper handling and acclimating your new ball python.
Good luck!
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Moshi
Joined: 23 Jul 2006
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Location: Pinellas Park Fl
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:14 am Post subject: |
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Ok, will do ASAP.
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RonCrawford
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:48 am Post subject: |
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| Moshi wrote: | | Ok, will do ASAP. |
I know from first hand experience what a heat rock can do. I had a ball python about 15 years ago with a heat rock in the tank. It literally burned the flesh off the ball python. They don't have heat receptors on their undersides so they'll stay on the heat rock while they burn. Bad experience....Very bad experience.
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deborahbroadus
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| RonCrawford wrote: | | Moshi wrote: | | Ok, will do ASAP. |
I know from first hand experience what a heat rock can do. I had a ball python about 15 years ago with a heat rock in the tank. It literally burned the flesh off the ball python. They don't have heat receptors on their undersides so they'll stay on the heat rock while they burn. Bad experience....Very bad experience. |
OH my! Thank you for sharing this experience. While I didn't have a heat rock, when I first got my rescue, Mo'Money, I wasn't prepared (waiting for my Boaphiles) so I had him in a tank with an UTH and newspaper substrate. I didn't have a thermosat on the UTH and it wasn't hot hot to my touch...never the less because he was so heavy (fat) he did get mile burns on his underside.
I had always wondered WHY would they sit somewhere that was burning them? "They don't have heat receptors on their undersides." Thank you for clearning up that question.
BTW...because he's a pet, I handle often, so it was a mild burn soon discovered and taken to the vet, and it came off with the next shed.
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Moshi
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Location: Pinellas Park Fl
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What do snakes look like when they get burned? I've never seen it so...
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