Hello,
My ball python is constipated. She hasn't defecated ever while in my care (since October 2010), despite her eating a prekilled mouse once a week until a month ago when she decided to stop eating.
This is her -> http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5501993&l=4664163b8a&id=510547503
I feel like I have gone over everything, but yet still she won't eat or defecate. I've read numerous care sheets online and still I don't know what I am doing wrong!
Going to a reptile vet isn't an option. Why? Quite simply, there are no reptile vets, and I couldn't afford one even if there was one.
Enclosure:
I have her in a glass aquarium about 2 feet long by about a foot wide.
Substrate:
I am using some exo-terra substrate I bought at a reptile store. I don't know what it is called.
Humidity:
Anywhere between 60%-80%. I mist her enclosure once every 2 or 3 days.
Temperature:
I keep the room at a 30˚C all day, year round. She has an under tank heater covering the bottom of one side of her aquarium, like I was told. My thermometer says the hot side is around 85˚F to 91˚F. I don't know what the temp. of the other side is.
Miscellaneous:
She has a cardboard box hide and some paper towel rolls to hide in (she's almost always in a paper towel roll). I have a water dish that she can soak in.
So, tell me, what am I doing wrong? Am I not doing anything wrong and just overreacting? What? :?
My experience with milk snakes and corn snakes is that they do indeed defecate out their meals.
I read online that soaking my ball in warm, shallow water helps with constipation. I did this twice with my ball with no results.
What am I doing wrong?
My ball python is constipated. She hasn't defecated ever while in my care (since October 2010), despite her eating a prekilled mouse once a week until a month ago when she decided to stop eating.
This is her -> http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5501993&l=4664163b8a&id=510547503
I feel like I have gone over everything, but yet still she won't eat or defecate. I've read numerous care sheets online and still I don't know what I am doing wrong!
Going to a reptile vet isn't an option. Why? Quite simply, there are no reptile vets, and I couldn't afford one even if there was one.
Enclosure:
I have her in a glass aquarium about 2 feet long by about a foot wide.
Substrate:
I am using some exo-terra substrate I bought at a reptile store. I don't know what it is called.
Humidity:
Anywhere between 60%-80%. I mist her enclosure once every 2 or 3 days.
Temperature:
I keep the room at a 30˚C all day, year round. She has an under tank heater covering the bottom of one side of her aquarium, like I was told. My thermometer says the hot side is around 85˚F to 91˚F. I don't know what the temp. of the other side is.
Miscellaneous:
She has a cardboard box hide and some paper towel rolls to hide in (she's almost always in a paper towel roll). I have a water dish that she can soak in.
So, tell me, what am I doing wrong? Am I not doing anything wrong and just overreacting? What? :?
My experience with milk snakes and corn snakes is that they do indeed defecate out their meals.
I read online that soaking my ball in warm, shallow water helps with constipation. I did this twice with my ball with no results.
What am I doing wrong?
