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The poop from the spotted python I purchase in August is pretty dry, and shaped like a thin log. The poop from my rat / corn / king snakes is more "pudding" like and sticks to the aspen substrate, water bowl, etc. Is this a normal difference between pythons and colubrids?

deg

Python crap is always more solid and well formed than colubrid. Easier to clean up, too. Especially when they shed with it inside the shed skin. Kinda like being gift-wrapped Uric acid lumps can be more of a problem.

>>Python crap is always more solid and well formed than colubrid. Easier to clean up, too. Especially when they shed with it inside the shed skin. Kinda like being gift-wrapped Uric acid lumps can be more of a problem.

Thanks. Yeap, the python poop certainly is easier to clean up - even though when she shed last night she didn't get the poop in the skin.

deg

Well, specimens of the genus Antareisa inhabit dry regions with only little rainfall (except the Antaresia found in the Western province in PNG!). Therefore a good water household is essential for surviving. They don't have any water to waste. Perhaps thats the reason why the poop is quite dry.

Cheers,
Wulf

I've kept pretty much every type of python, and as a rule, it's usually more solid than most other types of snakes. I currently have snakes from both wet areas and dry, and it doesn't seem to vary much. I have a pair of fairly large Papuan Olive pythons. The female always seems to leave a large mass that is never easy to clean, but the male is a lot neater. Both are 12', but the male weighs about 17lbs, the female 36. Maybe it's just her. On the other hand, my Timors like to smear it, when given the chance
Go figure....