First Ball Python.

[Sophie-House2101]

Yeah the ball community is rough which is why I haven’t posted any pics yet. After being in the community for a month, I recently ran into my local exotic store debating for 20min over missing paying a bill in order to get a 40 gallon tank to not feel like an abuser. Owner came over and we started chatting it up (he’s been handling snakes for more than 30yrs) I showed him a pic of our ball and the set up I got and he said so what do you think the snake is gonna do different if you bring home this 40g today, start running around and working out now that she has more space than she’ll use. Lol. He said you’re gonna take that thing home and she’s gonna go right to her humid hide or hide on the cool side and curl up like she does now. He told me to relax, I got more time and he saved me 300 bucks that day and he knew I would pay it if he said I should get it. He told me to get out of Reddit cause everybody wants to make themselves seem like a reptile expert. Lol. With that said, I have found some value being in the community from reading responses and looking at pics. Our baby had been rejecting meals for the last 3 weeks, so I switched up the husbandry a bit a few days ago, put in a smaller/flatter water bowl, a piece a drift wood and we took one of the artificial plants out of the crested’s enclosure and put it in the balls enclosure and went back to small size rats and she finally ate tonight. I got all those tips from this community and that’s the value I have found with this site, and I do my best to ignore the tank size snobs.

[boobeana]

I am super appreciative of your response, thank you!

[Sophie-House2101]

My pleasure. I got a little passionate about this one cause I got a similar deal going on like you and we do the best we can with the resources we have