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My BP is very inactive latlely. He's always in is hide, I feed once a week, could that be a problem ? He's a year old.

thanks

Well feeding once a week is definitly not the problem.

What are your temps?
How are you measuring your temps?
How are you providing a 90-95 degree hotspot?

If you use those little dial things for measuring heat, they suck, all they are doing is measuring air heat. They are great for humidity though.

Try getting a digital thermometer and putting it under his hot side hide, under the substrate to see what kind of heat he is really getting.

if it's not warm enough, get a UTH and a lamp dimmer or rheostat to control the heat (an uncontrolled UTH can get well over 110 degrees)

*if you already know all of this, sorry, just covering the basics*

Also, ball pythons are nocturnal, they are active at night.
And they usually hide alot of time anyways.

And how long have you had the snake for?
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try getting a digitial thermomete w/probe and putting the PROBE under the hot side hide under the substrate.
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1.1 Ball Python, 0.1 motley amel corn, 1.0 western hognose, 1.0 red blood

thanks alot for info !

i have an TH and a dimmer ... I don't know why i don't see him out at night anymore. maybe he's bored of his 20 gallon aquarium ??

i think i'm gonna build him a new cage.

thx again

I don't see any real hides in that picture. It might be because of low temps, what are they? (measured with DIGITAL therm or temp gun)
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