behavior question

[BILLP]

I have a tree python and he never moves even at night. He always sits on the same spot all of the time. The only time he ever moves is when I rearrange his cage and then it is only the first night. Also he never poops until I take him out and soak him. He will go a month until I soak him and the next night he poops. I have tried everything moving his light around misting more or less. Just wondering if this is a problem.

Bill

[anygiven60]

My 7 month old isn't very active when I look in on it... Even with 2hours into lights out, there it stays perched up... I'll see it from time to time crusing around when I wake up to go and flip on the lights... It'll go anywhere from 2-4 weeks before it poops, what it sounds like to me ist hat when you take the snake out to soak, the handling and all of htat is making it more willed to crap than any other times... It never fails with my rainbows.. 5 days after eating, I take them out, handle em a little bit and sure enough.. I wake up to a nice mess to clean up, if I don't do that.. It could be 2 weeks before they go... Just my personal account for it all

[LTownsend]

Don't worry about him, he is fine. All of mine sit in the same spot on their perches for days on end without moving. Even at night, they are content to stay in the same spot and hunt. The only time they move at all really is to move to a different spot on the perch for temperature regulation. As far as defication goes, they have a slow, slow metabolism; because they don't move around a lot, it seems they tend to go longer between waste deposits than many of my other species of python or boa.

[Piers]

I have two females and they never move. they too only deficate about once a month. mine hange there tails for a day or two before they do their very large mess. When I see them hange their tails I start to spray them three or four times a day,the higher humidity helps them
Piers