Busting Ball Python Care Myths!
Do ball pythons do better in racks? Do ball pythons climb? Do ball pythons only eat rats? Are ball pythons scared of light? These are all common ball python myths we are busting right now!
Busting ball python myths
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Great video, as usual! ❤
Have you any idea why Dav Kaufmann was spreading miss information? To justify breeding and keeping them in racks or? Makes me very sad these snakes can live many years and lot of them live all their lives in a tiny, dark rack. I'm against breeding them too at the moment because of all the over breeding from unethical breeders who just want to create cool breeds. It's tragic too that lot of people get their education from people who pretty much have ball python mills and just breed them for cool morphs.
Hello,
can you give me some advise on how to encourage my royal python to bask more? She is 11 month old (600g) and avoids all light: she only comes out after the lights are out or are dimmed. The dimmed lights dont produce enough IR or UV light and any exposure to them seems accidental. I use a IR, LED and UV light source pointing to the same area. The temperature in the terrarium is depending on hight 29 to 32 degrees during the day, at least 25 degrees at night. She uses her skyhide (no direct light, but higher temperatures) during the day – exept the first day after feeding where she stays in her cool humid hide.
Is this an age thing? Will she bask more if she is older? Is it to hot in the terraium? She is not an albino or anything like that but lacks red pigments (so she is yellow instead of brown). At night I always let her outside if she wants, she has her own room where she can be unsupervised. She always seems to prefer colder places but I am worried reducing the temperature.
Thank you for your time.
And also thank you for teaching me how to properly care for my snake. You are the reason I let her terraium cool down at night and I use IR lights instead of heatmats.
How do you manage to use a heat lamp has a primary source of heat without drying out the enclosure? I tried using it and give it a good spray, but the air became saturated..
Got my ball python as a juvie and I’ve exposed it to a cluttered enriched enclosure with uvb for years and it seems to hate the uvb light lol. Eats regularly, explores at night. She just doesn’t bask and hides from the light. It’s a black eyed leucistic so maybe that has to do with it but I think the uvb bandwagon always sounds like a reach. I’m all for enrichment, she’s under my care and my pet and deserves the best but uvb is clearly not necessary for a crepuscular/nocturnal animal.
Great Video again.
Can you tell me the name of the Study (or DOI) , that marks in which height they find the Pythons (the Graphic at minute 2:46)
Thanks in advance 🤗
Hi! Could you also cite the papers that you referenced, so that I can read the studies myself? Thanks
How do you gently transition from rack to terrarium?
How often do you suggest feeding an adult ball python?
Brilliant video and so informative! They're not just pet rocks, they have the ability to do so much if we give them the opportunity 🙂
Great video!
My Nanners spends his evenings climbing all over his enclosure. I have a stick but he really likes climbing on the canvas art I made for him that I stuck to the walls of his cage. I'm thinking I'll cut some wooden dowels and make climbing pegs for him so I don't have to keep refixing his art and thermometers.
The thing with misting systems is they can't be cleaned properly so can spray bacteria into the enclosure even if it was cleaned. The other is it just wets the surface which drys out quickly requiring more frequent misting. The frequent misting can create a constant wet surface which can cause scale rot.
Great video.
Many animals like to use holes as hideouts in the wild, but that doesn't mean that they should be kept in racks in captivity. Cats love boxes and tiny holes, and rabbits and hamsters are semi-fossorial, only to take a few popular pet examples.
If you were to keep hamsters, rabbits or cats in racks, you'd be considered the most sadistic human ever.
Your ball python was doing some heavy lifting for you on myth 10 and 11. Great information as usual. Both of my ball pythons very rarely bask even though I have halogen and UVB gradients but I will still always offer than option to them. All of these myths just boil down to excuses to mistreat animals. They are present in every single animal group that is kept as pets and I hate it. Videos like this will help to break that mold.
Told you, she will be glass surfing even in a larger enclosure 😉 One has to reserve more time for them during these periods in order to fulfill their out of the enclosure exploratory activities before they no more want to go out immediately upon being put back to the enclosure. Can take hours. Said it before, Kauffman's bp movie is a total pathos but one has to have some background knowledge to see through it.
Agree. You're pretty harsh on Dav though 😂
Forgive me for saying this, but it seems like certain ppl pick and choose human feelings onto their reptiles? So if a snake can "love" them, why wouldn't it care what its kept in? I think those 6x18x12s are much like a coffin, and I can't imagine anything being "happy" in that. I didn't get BPs just to cram them in one of those, or a rack, and handle when I FEEL like it. I'll be thrilled if mine ever want to come out and use their playpen, or roam their room at their own free will. Ty for sharing ❤
I keep them in terrariums and they are climbing. I will never keep them in racks anymore. I would love if I can breed them in terrariums.
Great video! I remember a few years ago seeing a post on a reptile forum asking if a 6x2x4 ft was big enough for a ball python and was shocked by the number of people saying it was "too big" and that ball pythons "never climbed" or "lived in holes". Such common myths. From what I have seen, these myths are less prevalent today, but still there.
Great information Liam!!! Keep spreading the word and raising standards! Ball pythons deserve quality of life. ❤ (They would deserve it even if they weren't the sweet, docile, good natured animals they are.)
Glad your ball python is climbing around in the background lol.
I want a ball python so bad but I can’t get one because of how big they get; the people in my household aren’t a fan of snakes so a large snake like a ball python wouldn’t be welcome 😢
I truly believe they are semi arboreal. In my mind the biggest consequence of a tub is that they wont sleep right because they will never know when its daytime, and they wont get proper exercise not having floor space let alone up and down space. Ive never kept them in tubs but ive never breed them either i could see why people use tubs but theyre defenitly not as healthy and proper for the snake as some keepers would argue.
Fantastic as usual, Liam. So well done, thank you.