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Originally Posted by Edcase
Tikichick would keeping a BP in the tank i said in my first post be ok?? or would the width need to be bigger. What types of size vivariums do you have?
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A baby ball can start off in an enclosure the size you mentioned. The main things you'll need room for is a tight hide box and a water bowl big enough for it to soak in. If you get a male, they'll grow to a little over 3 feet. A female gets around 5 feet. They get really thick around the middle, so as they grow, the size of the hide box has to get wider and wider. So eventually you'll need something larger, but that's a good size for a little bp.
I've got my little bp, Fiji, in a 20 gallon with aspen for substrate (I put newspaper on top of it for feeding time), a ceramic hide, a little log, and a water bowl. I'm using a larger water bowl now, so it's not in these pics that I took when I first set up the tank.
Eatin' on newspaper. They're rodent eaters.
One of my fave things about bp's is they yawn for no reason (and of course after eating, too).
The only critters that have musked me are garters and kingsnakes. I haven't experienced that with corns or balls... yet, lol
I don't know how active you like your snakes to be... I like Fiji's laid back style. I can sit on the couch and watch tv and let him crawl on me and he'll usually explore a bit and then settle down and just hang out. Most of the corns I've handled have been actively trying to escape me the whole time, esp. the younger ones. It's like a corn snake would be equivalent to a feisty Jack Russell Terrier and a ball python would be a lumbering Labrador Retriever, lol.