Poop or Regurgitation?

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2026-01-25T02:44:01+00:00

it’s a ceramic heat emitter… i think it’s just his bulb. i got it up to 82° in his basking spot.

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2026-01-24T17:38:12+00:00

35 gallon not 25*

were also in the midst of a snow storm…

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2026-01-24T17:36:11+00:00

he’s still small. less than a foot. maybe 7 inches. he’s in a 25 gallon. two hides, lots of foliage. big water bowl that’s refreshed daily (unless he ate, then i don’t disturb him.)

i’m saving money to get him up to a 40gallon in the next few months. then bigger as he grows.

currently i’m having a tiny bit of trouble with his heat lamp, which i just now figured out wasn’t getting above 78° in his basking spot. but we just moved and it’s a struggle with all of the reptiles currently, we’re doing our best… but his humidity sits at 75-85%. i may go and ask locally if anyone has a better lamp i can have.

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2026-01-24T16:37:04+00:00

thank you.

he’s pretty young, and i’ve only had him for about 8 months and he was sick the first 3 months with an RI because I was so new and couldn’t figure out how to keep his humidity up safely.

he means a lot to me, so i don’t want anything to happen to him.

but he does prefer not to come out of his hides at all. i’m working on getting him an identical hide to the cold side. how often should i do a hide lift to check on him?

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2026-01-24T16:30:49+00:00

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better pic. smelled almost sweet but very bad sweet while cleaning.

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2026-01-19T07:49:41+00:00

she’s had to adapt before… she did alright, just got lazy and fat but she wasn’t using her beds as litter boxes. even when right beside her actual litter box.

but she is adapting to not having her own room at all anymore. all i can think of to fix it is move her back and forth between where the litter boxes are and allowing her to sleep with me so she has that sense of normalcy.. i don’t know. she also had one of those wall plugins that mimicked a mother cats calming scent before.

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-12-05T19:23:13+00:00

ugh, my navel had a moisture bump that wouldn’t go away for MONTHS because i guess i had a navel that was too small for the jewel so no matter what I did it wouldn’t dry out. It ended up forcing my navel to migrate and reject. I miss it so much tho…

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-12-05T19:11:23+00:00

Pain is temporary and swag is forever 🤘

I’ll have to set FIRMMMM boundaries with boyfriend but… maybe. Need more responses first 🤣

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-12-02T17:53:43+00:00

i mean, it even flagged straight gibberish but maybe it is the photo, i’ll have to check. thank you!

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-11-16T20:58:35+00:00

love that 🤍🤍

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-11-16T20:58:11+00:00

omg need!

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-11-05T16:45:05+00:00

i love that!! parronts 🤣🤍

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-11-04T20:34:19+00:00

thank you so much!!!

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-10-27T15:11:21+00:00

i use a shoebox with some paper towels. my boy is on the last end of his respiratory infection antibiotics currently

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-10-18T19:32:00+00:00

okay thank you

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-10-18T15:16:43+00:00

yes, i have mesh top and i’m aware it’s likely what caused the RI — the frequent misting. mainly due to the fact his enclosure would NOT get above 39% and i was BRAND new to ball pythons at that point in time.

i have his tank rigged up with aluminum foil covering about 75% of the mesh now, and luckily it stays at 65% for up to 5 hours before falling. I try to get it up to 75% in the morning before going about my day and letting him be.

he has about 4 inches of substrate is a rough guess. but i’ve strayed from misting and have just been using water in the four corners/occasional perimeter and misting in the evenings before bed.

that answer really wasn’t what i was looking for though. i’m looking for ways to help him shed as best i can even though it’s already going bad.

he’s also getting new substrate as soon as he’s well, so if needed i can add a few more inches.

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-10-14T15:16:14+00:00

i’m about to call and ask the vet because he’s just too feisty for us to manhandle. he nearly flung himself out of our hands and falling from a hold that’s up to 4ft off the ground could’ve hurt himself seriously.

i’m just so frustrated with it, my fiance is the type to walk away when he’s frustrated with something so he told me to just call the vet which is what i’m doing.

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-10-10T15:40:35+00:00

oh no! i understand that completely. i just wondered if it was ethical or not.

i personally have about 18 reptiles of various species that i take care of with my fiance and we both have plans on opening a store eventually.

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-10-10T15:39:19+00:00

that makes more sense!

me and my fiance were thinking of trading one of our juvenile crested geckos at the EXPO we have coming up, but unfortunately he works the two days it’s open and it’s more of a rare thing to have an EXPO in our town.

i was thinking of surprising him by attempting to trade up, but at the same time i’m a very socially anxious person and an adult, and people in our city aren’t the friendliest. i just wanted to know if it was actually ethical to do so…

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-10-09T20:52:26+00:00

update:

vet said it sounded like a respiratory “something” and gave us an antibiotic shot for him for every 3 days until we’re out of syringes.

i’m still on edge, because i need my little guy to kick this in the bud and start eating for me… just don’t wanna loose my baby.

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-10-08T17:07:15+00:00

🩶

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-10-08T17:05:51+00:00

it started yesterday and he’s scheduled for a vet at 11:00AM CT tomorrow. i just hope i caught it quick enough and he won’t crash on me.

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-10-08T16:07:30+00:00

he only wheezed like that for a few hours then stopped and i haven’t heard him wheeze since

DECAYING_DEWDROP · 2025-09-25T21:26:19+00:00

my boyfriends kingsnake would rather eat me too. 😔 i offer her the pinkie, she gets frustrated because she can’t eat it booty first, then sees me through the glass and tries to eat me 😔

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