How lazy is normal?

Paradise · 06-01-10, 03:15 AM

Hi Nafun there are a few things you can check to make sure if your BP is just really lazy. Firstly BPs generally content with where they are unless looking for food in some cases you will have to take the food to him as well. ok so this is probably obvious stuff but heat and humidity can affect the BP either too much or too little is not good also the subtrate you use is very important and if you are using any live plants in the enclosure could also affect the BP. A lot of our local pretty plant life is poisonous in some way or the other so we generally advise our clients to use fake silk plants lastly is feeding. Is your BP eating regularly, if so are you feeding him enough? If you have check all these and they have no bearing on your situation or enclosure or if the BP still does not seem to be moving around as he should then it would be best to take him to a good herpe vet

mykee · 06-01-10, 07:34 AM

You need to throw all conventional thought about snakes on captivity pacing thier cages and looking alive out the window when dealing with ball pythons; they are one lazy SOB snake.
It's what attracted me to them in the first place; they're just like me: fat, lazy, but sexxxy as hell...

shaunyboy · 06-01-10, 11:17 AM

It's what attracted me to them in the first place; they're just like me: fat, lazy, but sexxxy as hell...[/quote]

Nafun · 06-01-10, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Paradise

Hi Nafun there are a few things you can check to make sure if your BP is just really lazy. Firstly BPs generally content with where they are unless looking for food in some cases you will have to take the food to him as well. ok so this is probably obvious stuff but heat and humidity can affect the BP either too much or too little is not good also the subtrate you use is very important and if you are using any live plants in the enclosure could also affect the BP. A lot of our local pretty plant life is poisonous in some way or the other so we generally advise our clients to use fake silk plants lastly is feeding. Is your BP eating regularly, if so are you feeding him enough? If you have check all these and they have no bearing on your situation or enclosure or if the BP still does not seem to be moving around as he should then it would be best to take him to a good herpe vet

Oh, don't worry, I know all about all of that. No live plants, substrate is astroturf, temp gradiant of 95 at basking spot to 79 at cold hide, Humidity is maintained between 50-70% (70-80 during shed) monitored with 2 digital hygrometers. Hot, middle, and cool hides. I also took him to the vet and had him checked for parasites when I got him. Anything that went into his enclosure from outside was baked in the oven at 250 for a minimum of 2 hours.

I just only have *one* ball python. It's my experience in snakes that when they're handled, when you put them down they either bolt for cover, or turn and coil to strike. Mister Slithers, however, just lays there, and I wondered if this level of laziness and docility was normal as I had no basis for comparison. Hence my original question, "How lazy is normal?"