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Anonymous
hello /an/

im thinking of getting a ball python.

how much does the food cost? is there huge price difference in the pinkies and full grown mice, and what if i my python refuses to eat anything but live prey?
>> Anonymous
current owner of 13 ball pythons, here. All eating frozen/thawed. Have owned or otherwise cared for dozens of BPs over the past 30 years (yes, I'm an oldfag), and the majority of them took to frozen/thawed prey relatively easy, especially in recent years when the majority of the BPs available are CB rather than WC. Most pet stores sell frozen pinkies for $1 apiece and frozen adult mice for around $2 apiece. Because I have around a hundred and thirty rodent-eating reptiles, I buy my frozen rodents online in bulk, hundreds at a time.

Google Ball Python care... there are dozens of good sites out there with articles about their potential to be fussy eaters, and how to combat that. Other sites graphically revealing the dangers in feeding live.
>> Anonymous
>>295307
Thanks

I hear ball pythons are very easy going snakes. Have you ever got bitten by one?
>> Anonymous
yup, a few times over the years. Usually my own damned fault. Ball pythons are more tempermental than, say, cornsnakes, but less tempermental than many other boids. Big advantage of BPs is that they stay small, so their bites (though painful) don't lead to lethal constricting.
>> Anonymous
Ball Pythons have ugly faces. Get a cuter python.
>> Anonymous
>>295381

are you fucking crazy? BP are the cutest snakes!

Not the Old fag, kinda a newfag at BP care, but i highly reccomend them. Their easier to care for, and mostly very friendly.

BIT OF ADVICE

They wont be friednly for the first week though. They will be all scared and nervous and confused being in a new home with a new predator (you) reaching into their new home all the time. The best advice is to leave them alone for about a week to let them get acclimated

But ill admit i dont do that. i play with them anyway and eventually they warm up to me. Guilty. Darwin (my snake) didn't appreciate that but now he's used to me.


>>295307

Hey oldfag, what are some signs that your BP is at ease outside his tank? I know if he's in a ball that means your stressing him out.

I know snakes dont exactly "like" people, being reptiles, but ho can i tell that my BP likes me, or as close to likes me as a snake can?