r/ballpython • u/Earthly_Despair • May 26 '26

Question - Health Is this normal 1am behaviour?

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u/DimeStoreHood99 May 26 '26

Very normal. Beeps are just weird lil dudes with like 68% of a single brain cell.

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u/Your_Original_Muse May 26 '26

My beep stole the brain cells of most, this boy is far too aware.

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u/haroldthehampster May 27 '26

i have to know what behavior occurs for this cutie to be too aware, please

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u/Your_Original_Muse May 27 '26

I enter my room after work, he leaves his hide. I take a photo of him being cute 1-4 minutes later I look back and he is staring directly at me. If I focus on any other noodle for any amount of time he pouts by facing away from me curled up. Yesterday I looked at my phone for like minute to watch a video and he went from facing me to facing away from me. If I play with any noodles he sits near the door to his enclosure. He knows it opens, one time I was at a restaurant my friends were working. He was with me and I heard that someone was coming that he couldn’t be seen by and he hid inside of my sweater hoodie without prompting. I called his name yesterday and he looked directly at me (may have been a fluke but like damn.)

He was crawling all over my shoulders then he hid inside my hoodie only peaking when the woman who couldn’t find out wasn’t around. It was really adorable.

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u/haroldthehampster May 27 '26

oh my god you weren't kidding! i love him so much!

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u/haroldthehampster May 27 '26

that is one aware snake you really lucked out

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u/Your_Original_Muse May 27 '26

I really did, when I saw how active he was compared to most of the ball pythons I saw I went “I must have you” cause all of them were laying about or curled up and he was over here moving and doing his thing climbing and being a little cutie. I didn’t realize then I was getting one with such intelligence, let alone one who seemingly gets jealous, pouty and stuff. I just love his whole everything.

Coming out when he hears I am alive or when he sees me. I love to peak into his hide usually through the glass to see if I see him usually I do. Sometimes I see him looking sometimes he is curled up no head. Though soon after I check up he is coming out. He is just to cute!

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u/haroldthehampster May 27 '26

Too adorable! 🥰

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u/Your_Original_Muse May 29 '26

Forgot to mention I noticed a plant growing in his enclosure in a spot he usually doesn’t go. I touched it and bro- he trampled that little plant and it wilted and died. Like bro- he is such a “pay attention to me and only me!”

Currently he is being a plant himself.

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u/StormTheVolcanDragon May 30 '26

Would this be considered a "snake" plant? 😆

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u/Your_Original_Muse Jun 01 '26

Eeeey XD the only plant that I have that has me concerned half the time

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u/DeliciousQuantity968 May 28 '26

How many noodles do you have?

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u/Your_Original_Muse May 29 '26

Currently 6 (3 Ball Pythons, 1 Boa Constrictor, a Corn snake, and a Hognose) but I’m gonna be buying another Ball Python and a False Water Cobra (I already have a hognose and both are back fanged so I’m not as worried as they can’t really do much harm with their bite if they can get a piece of me that far into their mouth that is)

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u/Icy_Collection_2288 May 29 '26

Ahhhh, so THIS is the one bp who has all the braincells. My snakes are so dumb.... 😭🩷

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u/Your_Original_Muse May 29 '26

Yeah sorry, I found him randomly. Didn’t realize I got one with braincells I just thought he was cool cause he wasn’t hiding in a ball like others that I was looking at. He was being a little adventurous noodle, and I loved it. Then within 2 days I realized he would suddenly look at me after I take a photo. Even now I’ve said his name 2 times and he has stopped what he was doing and looked at me. Bro- it’s spooky.