New to balls, I've a few questions despite reading the various care sheets. It's winter here and the cage has a heat variant of 32-25 C degrees during the day and 28-20 C degrees at night. Am I okay with that or should I add more. There are two heat pads in the warm area and a lightbulb at one end during the day. Baby Ball spent several days based in a hidebox on or next to a heat pad, now he has moved over to bathe in the water dish at the cooler end. Some care sheets warn against bathing, others say it's fine. Should I be concerned? Ate well once, passed on food two days later and will be offered again tonight.
All advice apreciated.
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Reuben
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beginner soaking question
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it is normal for bps to soak occasionally, if it does it very often, look in the water dish for little black dots, these will be mites, but if it is only occasionally dont worry it is fine
bps eat once every 5 to 7 days to try to feed two days later is unnecessary, and overfeeding will result in an overweight unhealthy snake, and it will go off of feed more often.
ps dont worry if your snake decides to refuse food for a week or 2 at a time, dont keep offering it daily, just let it go the week, it will be hingry again soon.
hope this helps, and good luck with your new snake.
yep, soaking is a-ok, ive got a guy taking a late night bath right now actually
~Johnny
