I bought her on April 12. She defecated a little bit on the 14th, and I was able to get her and the feces to the vet on the 15th. The vet checked the sample and found no intestinal parasites.
I tried to feed her on the 17th, but I had warmed a 45 gram f/t rat before checking her, and I found her pretty blue. I didn't expect her to eat while in the blue.
After she shed, I tried again with a 45 gram rat f/t around the weekend of the 22nd. She wasn't interested.
On the 27th, I left four live rat pinkies and a 35 gram f/t rat weanling in a paper bag in her enclosure. I first tried putting her in the bag and lowering the weanling to her. My other ball python takes food that way. She wasn't interested. I left everything in the bag and went away overnight. I figured that pinkies couldn't hurt her. In the morning, she'd eaten two pinkies and killed the other two without eating them.
She's about 24 to 26 inches long and weighs around 430 grams. She's in a 20L aquarium. The aquarium has two ceramic cups of water. One is a coffee/soup cup, and the other is a shorter soup bowl. She has an artificial cave over the warm side. The temperature there is in the upper 80's. She has a plastic box hide on the cool side. The temperature there is in the low to mid 70's. She spends most of her time in the warm hide. Two sides of the aquarium are covered with stone-patterned backing. The other two sides are also mostly covered because the packing paper inside the enclosure runs up the sides. The bottom has newspaper, but I've put packing paper over the newspaper. I've also left some other packing paper and newspaper in the aquarium. At first glance, it looks like an aquarium half-full of packing paper.
She had a pretty strong urination last week. She put out a great deal of water. In one spot, there was a big clump of the white pellets. In another spot, the pellets were broken up and floating in the urine puddle.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.
