zooophagous:

crispysnakes:

teleos:

sunflwrbird:

teleos:

sunflwrbird:

teleos:

sunflwrbird:

Poor Nagini is not liking this cold weather. He refuses to leave my lap blanket fort 😔🐍

This is a ball python. Since snakes don’t generate their own heat (mostly), putting them in an insulating blanket is useless, unless a heat source (something more substantial than a human) is under it. Best of all, in cold weather, is to leave them alone in their enclosures with their properly controlled heating so they can regulate themselves.

Thank you for that information. As this is my second time owning a snake I think I’m fine without your tips. And no, sorry, he’s actually a boa. I’ve owned a python before and while their markings may look similar to you, their demeanor is completely different. The context of this picture was that as he is no more than a few months old, I want to get him used to being handled. As as today is his feed day I won’t be able to handle him for the next 24-48 hour time period. So he would not leave my lap as it was the warmest place on my body. But thank you again for your information. But I’m fine without it 😘❤️

No, you’re really not, because that’s a ball python, Python regius, if that picture above is the correct picture and not a mixup.

I will wager you any sum of money you’d like on the identification of that snake. Dead serious. If that is an accurate picture of your snake, I promise you anything you’d like that I am correct.

P.S. Since this is the second whole snake you’ve owned, consider taking some advice from an intermediate keeper who has owned twenty or so different species - including common boas and ball pythons - for over a decade: your lap isn’t warm enough if the room is very cold, as many of our rooms are right now. But that’s not really here nor there; I thought he was being wrapped in a blanket, not held, and he should be fine to be held briefly, though if it is very cold in your house, I would strongly limit the handling sessions.

P.P.S. What do you think it says about your care and husbandry of the second snake you’ve ever owned that you don’t know what species it is?

I’m not going to argue with you about what my snake is or is not. As he was born, NOT hatched he is a boa. Not a python. Secondly, as I am sitting in the warmth of a well lit fire and was HOLDING him under the blanket as to make my fingers warmer. I appreciate your said expertise in the situation. But I did not and do not need your opinion not do I care for your conversation. But thank you, and I wish you continued luck with your pets.

Okay. butthurtherpetologist sabletsnakes crispysnakes, could I ask you to weigh in on this extremely rare species of Boa constrictor imperator, also known as the “ball python morph”?

Oh boy. Is this a troll post? I can’t tell. In case the OP is serious, though…the snake pictured is not a boa. It’s a normal ball python, that hatched out of an egg just like every ball python out there.

OP, This is what you have (a ball python). Google it.

This is what you do not have (a boa). 

There’s a huge difference in body shape, patterns, colors, size… and the husbandry is not the same between the two species so it would do you and your animal well to treat your BP like a BP, and not like something it’s not.  

I pray to whatever god can hear me that these posts are troll posts but somewhere in my heart of hearts, I know that people exist who are this ignorant.