what are the minimum Requirements for a Ball Python?
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MINIMUM
SinHarvest
Sep 21, 2003 12:14 PM
Replies (9)
mykee
Sep 21, 2003 12:49 PM
Food, enclosure, heat, substrate, hide, water. Not in that order. Buy a book, but if you want to know what the minimum requirements are, maybe you shouldn't own a ball python. Just my opinion.
amytruman
Sep 21, 2003 01:05 PM
Atleast they asked. I think your reply was a little harsh.
Isn't this the place to ask those kind of questions?
If more people would ask these kind of questions my rescue wouldn't so full all the time.
I think the point here is that they came to this forum to learn what they require before they purchase a snake and take it home and relize they don't know the basics.
Just my opinion.
mykee
Sep 21, 2003 10:34 PM
See, I would have agreed with you, until I read the word MINIMUM (note the CAPS in the original message). This can only mean only one of two things; someone is buying, or HAS bought a BP who either doesn't have the $ to do so, and the snake will suffer, or is just concerned with giving the BP the minimum living requirements, and probably the MIMIMUM amount of care. But thanks for the attack; if you noticed, I told them exactly what was needed to "scrape by".
jeff favelle
Sep 21, 2003 10:40 PM
Don't ask what is the minimum that you can give your snake. Ask yourself what is the MAXIMUM that you can provide for your snake.
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mykee
Sep 21, 2003 10:49 PM
Here here. Left a bad taste in my mouth, and working at a Rescue, you probably see a lot of reptiles who's owners gave it the MINIMUM requirements............
peteralbrian
Sep 21, 2003 06:33 PM
given there
LeeFobes
Sep 22, 2003 03:28 PM
no offense...but i think the breeders are giving their BP's minimum requirements. i mean, they put their snakes in plastic tubs with 100's of other snakes. they get the heat part, and the humidity. they only touch their snake to feed it, or to clean the cage. and when they breed them, they sell the rest to get more snakes to give very little attention to.
jeff favelle
Sep 22, 2003 09:45 PM
Wow, all those millions of years they've been around must have just sucked royally (no pun intended) for them.
Bummer.
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LeeFobes
Sep 22, 2003 03:29 PM
no offense...but i think the breeders are giving their BP's minimum requirements. i mean, they put their snakes in plastic tubs with 100's of other snakes. they get the heat part, and the humidity. they only touch their snake to feed it, or to clean the cage. and when they breed them, they sell the rest to get more snakes to give very little attention to.
