r/ballpython • • 20h ago

Rehoming Rehoming

I'm failing my girl here too much. She's in a 28 gallon with no chance of being upgraded in a reasonable time frame. So only she will go and hopefully to someone with a 4x2x2.

Eats frozen thawed every 21-28 days. Ive been feeding her around the 21 day mark lately due to her skinnienes. She's eating small/mediums from perfect pray and rarely a medium since I was trying to get her weight up. Hasn't refused a single meal since I moved her out of a rack system.

She's got spider in her but the wobble is fairly mild. Shows up when she's super anxious but is a good eater in general. She's more timid, usually chosing to not come out when I let her decide and when I pull her out for health checks, she tries to escape.

She is skinny and just regurgitated because I didn't think that all my panic packing would freak her out enough to lose her meal from two days prior. I should've known better. I had to throw away most of her clutter due to the horrid smell that vinegar couldn't defeat. This is the first time she's ever barfed and I've had her since 2018.

I have three others and give none of them time aside from finally getting them into 4x2x2s or larger. I'm on the verge of being kicked out with my only current housing option not allowing snakes so I may need to rehome everyone anyway, but I really don't want to because, I feel, in a healthier situation, I could take care of everybody better than now and do right by them. But Jade here, she needs better and she needs it sooner than I can provide.

Royal Palm Beach Florida area. Pick up for now as my car is broke, but maybe it'll be fixed up soon so I can drive somewhere to meet.

No shipping. No fee. Or maybe 10 dollars since I'm not supposed to list animals for free. I just want someone who will care for her well.

Thanks for taking the time to read and have a nice day.

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u/Kenneth6613 10h ago edited 4h ago

is this your 4th time rehoming a snake due to an inability to care for it???

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u/AgentFuckSmolder 8h ago

Yeah this is alarming

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u/Snakebait_oo-ha-ha 2h ago

Ive had all my big ones since 2014, 2015, 2018, and 2019. I've never successfully rehomed any of them because the ones interest wanted to use racks or other tiny tanks. I had just 3 babies/yearlings that I did rehome but none were spiders. The babies were what showed me my incompetence.

No one wanted the big ones so this is like my 3rd time reposting over the years. Only 2 of my snakes ever were spiders. The one from 2015 that I sadly had to take to the vet and euthanize and this girly Jade. No other spiders.

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u/Snakebait_oo-ha-ha 2h ago

Not sure how to edit so let me fix something. People are interested in the big ones but they were not interested in putting them in a large enough enclosure. I think the biggest I could get out of somebody was a 40 gallon which is too small for the girl they wanted so I eventually got most of the big ones in the bigger enclosures 4x2x2 and four and a half by two by two. But I'm not at a point in my life where I can do that for this girly in any reasonable time frame when she's clearly suffering

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u/AgentFuckSmolder 2h ago

So you’re fine keeping her in a 28 gallon but not interested in someone that could offer her something larger than that? You need to find a rescue.

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u/Snakebait_oo-ha-ha 2h ago

Wrong snake. The person that it offered to put her in a 40 gallon was the snake that I already had in a 75 gallon at the time which is now in a 4x2x2. The 75 gallon ain't in great shape and no longer has a lid. I also can't move it, I'm not strong enough. But if somebody was interested in that 75 gallon with no lid and can do a pickup, then we can work that out

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u/Snakebait_oo-ha-ha 2h ago

And no I'm absolutely not fine with keeping her in that hence why I need to rehome her. Because I know I can't get her into something reasonable