The Guide to Owning a Ball Python

The Guide to Owning a Ball Python
by John Coburn

The Guide to Owning a Ball Python
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Author: John Coburn
Brand: TFH PUBLICATIONS
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2003-03
ISBN: 0793802601
Number of pages: 64
Publisher: TFH Publications
Product features:
  • Details of care, feeding, and breeding.

Book Reviews of The Guide to Owning a Ball Python

Book Review: Can hopefully find something better
Summary: 3 Stars

I have owned snakes but just bought my first ball python. I picked up this book at the pet store and read it cover to cover--a couple of times over. While it offers some good information to start, it leaves out so much. It leaves out common sense info that the new ball python owner will search high and low for. Such as: what do those rotten little mites REALLY look like, what are some real ways to REALLY get rid of them, what humidity level to really strive for--in actual numbers, when the first shed will occur, the fact that they are supposed to have "wrinkled corneas" (he didn't fail to shed his eyeball), how to gauge when your baby ball is ready to move from fuzzies to hoppers to adults, etc. After doing a lot of day-to-day research to supplement this average book, we found a FABULOUS vet who has personally owned and cared for hundreds upon hundreds of ball pythons. (If you live in/near Murrieta, CA, email me for her contact info.) I am really looking for a new book that will give me more confidence and comfort that I am caring for my sweet snake much more properly. And thank goodness for my vet!!

Summary of The Guide to Owning a Ball Python

This introduction to the African Ball Python, Python regius, includes details of care, feeding, and breeding as well as natural history. Fully illustrated in color.

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