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A "waste"-ful question

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Drexan89

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Down the road, i eventually plan on owning a Pied ball python. The thing that i want to know is, how much waste do they make exactly? i've heard they pee a lot, so i'm confused. is it:

When they pass their meal they leave a lot of pee with it
or
They pee often, as in they wont pass just solid waste/pee all at once

I could have sworn that all snakes go all at once and only after they've passed their meal. i'd love some clarification on this, i want to be able to prepare the viv so that i can have the greatest ease of cleanup with it's waste
 
When I had my ball python he didn't excrete an overly large amount of waste...nothing like the larger boas/pythons would. He would excrete his waste like any other snake...solid/liquid together, at least that was my experience. I am sure others will chime in
 
They are big, stout snakes, and certainly drop a bigger anchor than a corn snake, but they aren't worse than a similar sized bullsnake or anything. But let me reiterate, they are big, stout snakes. If their enclosure is in your bedroom, it has been documented that they can defecate audibly enough to spoil a romantic encounter.
 
When I first got some ball pythons, I was amazed at how much easier they were to keep clean compared to corns. Of course, the "deposits" are larger - but not nearly as frequent! Many colubrid keepers seem really worried about their ball pythons being constipated because of the relative infrequency. But they just don't seem as messy as most colubrids. I don't complain about that!
 
thank you all for your input, i'm glad i got the official word than the word of people who might just not know what they are talking about :)
 
All the BPs I've had pass urates/pee at least once or twice a week, and defecate about every other week. This is on a weekly feeding schedule.

My boas, who are on 3 week schedules, seems to have the same schedule of pee/urates/poo, about every other week.
 
Chip said:
They are big, stout snakes, and certainly drop a bigger anchor than a corn snake, but they aren't worse than a similar sized bullsnake or anything. But let me reiterate, they are big, stout snakes. If their enclosure is in your bedroom, it has been documented that they can defecate audibly enough to spoil a romantic encounter.
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This. It can be quite audible... I forgot about that when I got my big dumeril's boa. It's the dums that tend to pee a lot by the way. They will pee more often than they poop.
 
My BP's deposits resemble that of a cats. They're nice and compact unlike those of a corn. That makes it that much easier to clean. The urates aren't hard to gather up either. For me, they've always been kinda chalky.
 
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