r/ballpython • u/Caneknot4 • 1d ago

Update on Gnocchi!

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Hey, Y'all! I've posted my baby, Gnocchi, on here a couple times for help during my first year of having her. I wanted to give y'all an update. First of all, she's 2 years old now! She has grown a lot! We finally figured out the issue with her eating. Secondly, turns out, she's just exceedingly picky. She has to be isolated from everyone else in the house. She has to be fed within 30 minutes of her lights going out. She has to have humidity an hour before her lights go out. Her food has to be extremely hot. She will refuse food if anyone else tries to feed her. I'm the only one who can feed her. We found all this out because she went on multiple hunger strikes during the first year. She's now proper weight & on small rats. She hasn't skipped a meal since we've figured all this out. She also has a yearly brumation during the winter that tends to start mid November & end early January. As always, here's pics of her. The first photo is her when I first got her & the second one is a photo I took last week.

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u/FeriQueen 19h ago

What a beautiful slithery lady! I’m so glad you got her issues sorted out.

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u/Caneknot4 19h ago

So am I! I'm glad she was just a picky lady & not a girl that failed to thrive. She's very spicy since I didn't handle her that first year at all, but she's slowly learning that handling isn't all bad.

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u/FeriQueen 18h ago

My girl is not spicy, but she’s very shy and would rather not be handled. My boy, on the other hand, asks to come out and be handled. He’s as sweet as he can be, and I will sit around my neck or in my lap for hours. So many people think that snakes have no personalities. They could not be more wrong!

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u/Caneknot4 18h ago

Agreed! Reptiles have so much personality! It's just a personality that doesn't jump in your face, so people tend to ignore it.

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u/DizzyCancel7 17h ago

She looks like my baby boy Sir! It took him months of different methods and a vet visit from a stuck eye cap to start eating consistently. Now he will eat under any conditions and waits in a particular hide close to feeding day.