Ball Boa/Phyton Report
The Ball Python(python regius) or, Ball Boa, Originally were found at the edges of forest lands of Central and Western Africa. They are comfortable both in Trees and on land. They are what they call Crepuscular, active around dusk and dawn. In Europe they are called Royal pythons, in the US they are called balls because of their habit to crawl in to a little ball when they are nervous. They are curious and gentle snakes.Ball pythons are usually around 4 feet long, occasionally they can reach up to 5 feet. When they are properly fed their bodies are nicely rounded. Like all pythons and boas Balls have anal spurs. These single claws are vestigial remains of the hind legs snakes lost while evolving from lizards. Males have longer spurs than females yet, males have smaller heads than females.
To keep the Ball Python alive you have to fed it once about every weeks. As a baby, though, it needs to be fed once a week. The Ball Pythons eat mice mostly. The best you can feed them is pre-killed mice instead of live mice, that way the mouse cant hurt the snake in the process of eating it. As a baby they need to be fed mice around 5 days old so that the baby snakes can eat them. If your snake refuses to eat and you don’t know what to do. You should call the local vet or animal place and ask them what to do. The Ball Python has to have tank big enough for it to roam around in, approximately ten gallons for a baby, as it matures it should have a tank about twenty gallons, then as an adult it requires a thirty gallon tank. When putting soil in the tank you should make sure there are no mites in it. Small wood chips should not be
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