Care Sheet for PythonsAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 3.54 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 04/12/2004 |
Main Category: | Snakes |
Sub Category: | Pythons |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | Repto Jerk |
Years Experience: | 5 to 10 Years |
Species: | Ball Python |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | burmese pythons maybe? |
Sexing and Characteristics: | If you want to tell if your snake is Male/Female you’ll need a sexing probe and that will determin. |
Mostly Active During: | Day |
Substrate and Water Needs: | News paper will do fine other things can be bought like turf, woodchips, and shreded tree bark from a pet store NEVER collect this stuff from outside as it could infect your python with a fatel virus!! A water bowl is also needed for drinking, bathing and swiming you can use a bowl from around the house, but clean it first -or- you can buy a sturdy water bowl at a pet store, try and get a bowl that can fit your snake in -or- even bigger sized bowl just make it can fit in your pythons tank/wired cage. |
Lighting and UVB: | You may use a heat lamp just make sure that it is a small dome sized lamp fixture and don’t get a light bulb that is powerful or it will fry your snake!!! try a 75 watt to a 100 watt not 150 watt lightbulb. |
Temperatures and Humidity: | The tank should always be from 80-90 degrees if gets any hotter your snake may die if it gets to low it will become frozen. You shold have a sparybottle and spray the pythons tank once in a while so it dosent over heat. |
Heating and Equipment: | You can use a heat lamp {but not to powerful} -or- you can use a heat pad under the tank make sure one side of the tank is hot and the other side is cooler than the other side. But NEVER EVER use a hot rock or it will burn the python’s skin. |
Caging Provided: | I suggest that you have 20 gallon tank for hatchlings 30 gallon for a young adult and a 40 gallon for a full grown snake plese provide a hide box,somthing to heat the tank, a branch, a water bowl, good clean substrate and a themometer [NOTE:you MUST clean the tank every week]. |
Diet: | Carnivorous |
Description of Diet: | You should feed your snake every week feed them live, mice,gerbels,hamsters, and somtimes a small rabit. |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | NONE. |
Maintenance: | You should take your snake to a reptile vet once a year for a cheakup NOTE this does cost money check your local repti vet for costs of the cheakup and other important vet stuff. |
Some Words on this Species: | This type of snake is a very gente snake of its kind it feeds very good also it wont take long for the snake to be comfortable with you! |
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