Is there such a thing. I bought him a plastic tree and he never comes off it except to go in his hide. It seems kind of strange to me as I've never really heard of this before. He's about 2 yrs old and I got him about 6 months ago. I got the tree about 3 months ago and it's the same routine everyday. He pokes his head out of his hide for about 30-45 minutes then straight to the tree. He sometimes stretches over to the top of one of his hides but doesn't come completely off the tree. I feed him f/t which he eats hanging from the tree. Temps are ok at 80 on cool side and 89 warm. Humidity is 52%. I've double checked the temps with a IR thermometer, they're right. I'm using newspaper substrate. Did I somehow get a Ball Phase Tree Python? He seems as happy as a pig in mud but I'm confused. Is this normal or not? Any reply appreciated.
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Arboreal BP?
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Nancy, my normal female, came by a big driftwood decoration which I only gave to her to spice up her home for my benifit. Little did I know that every waking minute she spent out of her hide she would spend climbing all over the driftwood. Usually she would coil up at the very tip top to relax the evening away.
Who knows. People weren't born to fly but some can't keep away from it anyway. Maybe our arboreal bps are just little snake daredevils. 
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1.1 BPs (Syd and Nancy)
1.1 Het. Albinos (Bill and Beatrix)
0.2 French Lops (Lapine and Jacquotte)
0.0.2 Firebellied Toads (Stanley and Stuart)
Thanks for the reply. I just thought it was pretty strange. BTW, I love the name Beatrix although I would personally choose something other than Bill as it happens to be my name.
it's a kill bill thing. if you haven't seen vol. 2 then it probably doesn't jump out at you.
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1.1 BPs (Syd and Nancy)
1.1 Het. Albinos (Bill and Beatrix)
0.2 French Lops (Lapine and Jacquotte)
0.0.2 Firebellied Toads (Stanley and Stuart)
My five-foot ball lived in a ten gallon for ten years. Half was the hide, half was the crock. When he came home to me, het got a tank several times that size And he never went in his hide again, he liked sitting in the middle and watching us. We started letting him out, and he'd spend hours in the bookshelf or on top of the desk hutch. So we bought him a log. Loved it. Got him a tree. Can't get him out of it So yeah, some of them like to climb and be high up. Except...the cats like to be high up too
Good luck,
Maria
