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lol! I thought she was being cute so I snapped a pic. Manson is my rescue normal/busy pattern belly ball python.

Great picture. My local zoo has 3 adult balls in a 4' tall cage with a few branches in it. They are ALWAYS at the top of the cage when I visit. I love it.

Brandon Osborne

I have found that my balls love to climb and hang in trees. I used to be heavily into arboreal boas and pythons and have just started getting into balls this year. I have been using my arboreal enclosures to house my balls until while my ball cages get completed. Not only do they love to climb and "hng" in the branches, but they feed in the trees too! I think that it promotes excircise, causing them to use muscles they normally wouldn't and helps them metabolize their food quicker, therefore feeding more often and growing more quickly. Makes sense though, most young boas and pythons start out life in low trees/bushes for self preservation to get off the ground and away from predators. I think I'm going to add braches to my new cages too!It can't hurt and helps with sheds too. Here is a pic of our breeder pastel I posted about a week age just hanging out.

ya, I have a bunch of branches that I change around to keep things new. sometimes just one branch like the picture other times 2 or 3 going all different directions.

my bp is always climbing and sleeping in his tree. He has also eaten a rat pup from the tree (rat was on ground, bp slinked around in the tree and struck him from above, then pulled the rat into the tree and ate him on the branch)
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