BALL PYTHON HELP?
ok..a couple of weeks ago my friend was bitten by my python..i thought little of it and went on..well..nowadays i went to his cage to refill his sea bowl..i notice him raring up..so i rubbed my hand against his tank...he striked at tiniest 7 times.its frustrating me because i got him to hold and show off..and there are kids running around here..so whether i cant do something im going to have to sell him...its frustrating...i need adjectives the info u can give me PLEASE
I have a juvenile BP. Her name is Zoot Suit and she is the most docile, sweet thing. We save her happy. She is fed on schedule, her viv is verbs and she has her basking area. She also have a "hide house" on both the warm and cooler sides of the vivarium. She is handled habitually but not over-handled. If a BP is happy and well cared for, it will not expected become aggressive enough to strike. Of course, they (like all creatures, including human beings) are not 100% predictable. Stay away from the snake's facade, eyes. They do not like being touched around those areas.
Good luck and please, as other individuals have suggested, don't hold the BP if you intend her to be a side show. Also- BPs like privacy when they feed so don't charge access for others to see a rodent being constricted and swallowed whole. They also like to make disappear so the "hide houses" are crucial. Clean water-daily. Temp and humidity are crucial. Keeping her free of mites and other external and internal parasites is crucial. READ!
Well, how much do you feed it and how much do you hold it? I personally own adopted a ball that was underfeed and not taken support of and after six months of care she is a great snake! At three feet it should be eating at lowest 3-4 medium size mice per week and you should hold it for around twenty minutes at least three times per week. Don't be afraid of this snake, for they are like dogs and can sense nervousness! Good luck.
When was the later time you fed your snake? How old is your ballpython?
Younger snakes (16-30 inches) that are still growing fast necessitate more food. Older snakes (30-48 inches) won't need to feed as often. Younger orb pythons should be fed once every 7-10 days. They are capable of eating small to average size mice as hatchlings. Adults can pretty effortlessly eat a rat that measures five or six inches from nose to butt. Adult males can be fed in the region of every three weeks, and the adult (breeding) females eat about once every two weeks.
be patient and dillagent. first gain him used to people being around the tank later try putting your hand in the tank, eventually he will bring back used to you and you will be able to touch him and eventually pick him up, patience is the key. try handling more at darkness time when your snake is awake, they are nocurnal and may be more patient with you. good luck hope i could be of some help out, this worked for my snake but they are all different, remember that hes not a dog hes a reptile and youve got to be dillagent.
Answers: try feeding him with tweezers pythons strike nurture so wiggle whatever he has within font of his face dint let the smell of you go on to to the mouse they consequently think your hand his food he sounds fully grown so should be on large mouse rat but its not the best judgment to get a snake just to show off pythons gather together bite if they get scared they dance into a ball
You bought the snake for the wrong aim. They can stress from overhandling, and shouldn't be handled by people who don't know how to do so properly, as biting a person is a great channel for a ball python to damage its mouth and tear out its own teeth.
I hope anyone reading the examine can see how dumb it looks to try and exploit a snake (or any living thing) to make yourself look macho, and then to not be able to even fiddle with the thing properly because you forgot to educate yourself before getting the pet.
There are a few reason this could have happened:
You're feeding the python wrong.
You're mishandling the animal or handling it when it is full of food (never feel a snake that just ate, as you can injure it) or in the blue stage of shedding, which makes them apt to strike at everything that's thaw out or moving.
You have it in the wrong enclosure and the stress is making it bad.
He likes to be fed on Wednesdays and Caturdays only.
Remedy: get hold of a book.
All joking aside, I think this animal (and YOU!) would be more happy whether you brought it back to where you got it from. It would be even better whether you tried to take it somewhere that will make an attempt to sell it to someone who have done the research and knows how to care for the animal.
After you get rid of him, please don't draw from another pet to hold and "show off" because the best you can hope is that you don't get too humiliated and you don't kill too many helpless animals earlier you learn your lesson :o
