#Milky Way is my ball python

[hotvampireadjacent]

Finished setting up milky way’s tank. I bought new dirt for my son.

See. When I first moved in here I had dirt but it wasn’t enough. So he’s been having like the bare minimum dirt requirement to keeps humidity in his tank. Now that I have more dirt for him I’m able to mold the terrain to be more interesting for him. It has little hills and slips in there and is much more natural for him instead of just plain flat dirt.

I hope he enjoys his 10 pounds of dirt I bought for him :))))) I think he will. Bc I was also able to bury some drift wood into the dirt so it should be able to support his weight better when he goes to climb and crawl. Yay enrichment!!!!!!!!!

[akirameta84]

my pets eating rating

Jasmine (German Shepard): Always hungry. Will steal food. Will also lead you right to her food dish, and she knows exactly when its dinner time.

Nova (Leopard gecko): Always hungry. Will eat even if full. Approaches anyone when they get near in hopes of food. Is on a diet. Has trouble actually finding said food if the insect moves faster than a snail.

Solar (Ball Python): Normal hunger. Will stare at you until you feed her. Will not eat food until after you have spent half an hour moving it in front of her and her proceding to cuddle it first. (her food is not live because I actually care about my snake *ahem*)

Milky Way (Crested gecko): Good hunger. Will eat whenever food is presented, but only if he's hungry. Omnivore so less of a pain in the ass to feed. Will knock over food dish if he doesn't like where its placed.

[aiweirdness]

GPT-2: It learned on the Internet

Prompt: The black-capped chickadee is a small songbird native to

Response: The black-capped chickadee is a small songbird native to Africa that is powerfully seductive. In the songs of Barry Sequson, Harry Holness and Alan Emerson the black-capped chickadee competes with others—and climbs on top of each other and fights with high-powered snakes, Emperor jockeys and mysterious unicorns.

This is text generated by an artificial neural network that the researchers at OpenAI unveiled this week. In fact, it’s generated by the worst neural network they trained. Even the worst neural network generates text that, if not demonstrating actual knowledge of chickadees, is leaps and bounds over the coherence of any neural networks I’ve trained myself. They’ve built in a way for the model to zoom out and look at longer-term features of text, which means it’s much better at making sentences hold together, and even remembering what it’s talking about from sentence to sentence.

The model learned by crawling the Internet and seeing which words are used together in which order, trying to build up an internal model that will let it predict which word comes next in a sentence. It’s similar in concept to the models I’ve trained to generate paint colors, first lines of novels, and Harry Potter fan fiction, except it’s a lot more powerful. It also learned from a much larger dataset than I use, consisting of every page that was linked to somewhere on Reddit with a minimum number of upvotes. That encompasses a LOT of topics.

It includes fan fiction, for example.

Prompt: Harry wished that Hermione would hurry up. The icing was beginning to harden.

Response: Even now, the cracks only hurt and were beginning to make the steel in her hair and tie in like clumps. Hermione sipped the bitter frost from her dinner and chewed on her eating soup.

Prompt: Darth Vader entered the room, cape billowing. "What is the meaning of these... festivities?"

Response: ”Strange and solemn, now," Princess Leia replied. "Will pirates make jokes at Jabba's birthday cake? Oh, and for a moment, Darth Vader was too full of himself for that ceremony, hence all the mirth."

"Did your father suffer there?" Vader roared and growled and turned to gaze up from the balcony.

The model can also try to communicate Important Science Facts, although its actual facts are a bit suspect.

Prompt: Our solar system consists of the inner and outer planets, separated by an asteroid belt. It has

Response: Our solar system consists of the inner and outer planets, separated by an asteroid belt. It has only one sun, Pluto.  Mercury rotates on its axis a little to allow a few planets, called gas giants, to be independently charged.  During some of these cycles periods between  90% and 64% of the solar system's surface might be charged.  (Not enough is needed for vermin but that is gradually fading away.)

Prompt: Throughout the long cold Antarctic winter, the residents of South Pole Station

Response: Throughout the long cold Antarctic winter, the residents of South Pole Station lost virtually all of their ancient crustaceans, most notably pterodactyls, and all of the all-important plankton hydrates and protozoan eggs of the five ordered species of mammal.

Other deposits for sea organisms included eraymarine calcifye, the redfin ball, penguin heads, and the red whale.

Prompt: A carbon atom's outer orbitals

Response: A carbon atom's outer orbitals are basically a ring of ions around the border of thin mini-glaciers (usually colloquially referred to as bubble"). Like viruses, these planes are in islands in large weather groups. In and out they get all of their energy from many small regions of solar wind and dense cloud cover (usually thousands of square meters). Like viruses, their weaponry is imaged to record the movement of material-- (by deflecting rays, for instance) to complete waves or to cause the material to deform under shell impact. Capacitors--like gravity ids-- produce buoyancy with the exhalation of liquid hydrogen atmospheres, an essential electrolytic letdown when the material is what one calls a watermelon. Heat range is quite long and space is limited so one must stick with watermelons for a stability boost at a given coordinate system vital to shelter those who require them in space.

Interestingly, it takes its cues from the phrasing of the prompt more than from its specific content.

Prompt: Behold, the three-toed sloth, known for its

Response: Behold, the three-toed sloth, known for its ichorotic smile, with its four shades, pantered organic wizened broken bony paws, bulging knees, hairy tubercles, and orange's-black mandibles.

It’ll also do recipes, delightfully. Its recipes aren’t enormously more coherent than the recipes I’ve been able to generate. Part of the problem seems to be that the model is getting a bit confused by other types of recipes in its dataset.

Prompt: Quitterbread bars. Ingredients:

Response (some formatting adjusted for readability):  

Quitterbread bars.

Ingredients:

Creamy cole slaw, chopped fresh cilantro, garlic, etc. 1  few very good options at lime-light, milky-white (at a light foodie) space 1  medicated towel (albino & aluminum mesh - see a friend's link to see if you can use it carefully & what you're expecting) a few paraffin-y dice (sleep about half of the weight, use the 1 ounce plus 2 pounds extra when handling these onto a hot baking sheet) 20 baking sheets 30 1/2 lb. white sanding board 1 didn't dry paper cup 1 cup extra hot water

boil the butter and electrical polishing after 20 minutes 3LB neurons

gently massage these into their slots, reduce heat in oven to approximately 350°F

stuff seam side-side down with binding compound, avoiding every drop of water the thinner sides will be tidy and seperate and pull out after 24 hours know how long they will keep it's held well, thin enough to live with 3-4 weeks teach you all the serenity you'll need to know for fantasy...

_______________________________________ >>> A limited amount of not-spicy crème brûlée (orange - read about how to do it in Meteor!) I used black chocolate cake Crème Brûlée

Painted cocktail draped across the small purple curtain of Shana Liu's Stepmother Coconut Guild guest house in France. 35' x 30' $150

Embargo thank you. Our magical rich chocolate cube

Still, its memory is better than any model I’ve worked with before. Look how it manages to almost remember that it was making a list!

Prompt: My 10 favorite animals are: 1.

Response:  

My 10 favorite animals are: 1. zebras with a white scar on the back; 2. insiduous spiders and octopus; 3. frog with large leaves, hopefully black; 4. cockatiel with scales; 5. razorbill with wings hanging about 4 inches from one's face and a heart tattoo on a frog. 3. cockatric interlocking tetrapods that can be blind, cut, and eaten raw. 4. black and white desert crocodiles living in sunlight. 5. zebra and many other pea bugs.

And this is just the worst model, the one that was trained with 117 million parameters instead of 1542 million. What can the best model do?

Here’s an example of its output:

This give you a clue as to why the OpenAI researchers have decided for now not to release their best model to the public. They’re worried about people using it to produce destructive bots, fake news, phishing emails, and other dangers. It might be difficult indeed to moderate a forum filled with angry time-wasting mostly-coherent bots. In their blog post they posted more examples of the full-powered model producing impressively coherent text, including a delightful news story on four-horned South American unicorns.

What will they end up doing with their model? Even now, someone else with the time and resources - a government, for example - could train and use a model like theirs, especially now that they’ve shown everyone what their technique can do. They’re hoping that their paper will prompt some regulation, or at least some countermeasures, that can guard against this technology’s misuse. They’re also hoping that other researchers will stop to think about potential misuse before they release their models to the public.

For now, the GPT-2 version OpenAI released isn’t going to fool very many people.

Prompt: NO!!! You should NEVER feed a dog from a silver platter.

Response: It will make them bark in farts when you put it away.

Prompt: Actually, you should never microwave your food, because

Response: it holds sodium, mercury, mercury or "cold enemy cocktail" flavorings and the exact same flavorings used then for chili powder. This is wrong, it's not safe, and some people get hurt while cooking at their homes! If you have these very dangerous ingredients and want to keep them around, you should absolutely rinse them and cook them in a dishwasher and set aside.

Support AI Weirdness and get bonus content: A few more GPT-2 samples I generated.

You can download and play with the second-best model here - requires some familiarity with installing and running python code. Or there’s a colaboratory version (works in-browser; no coding required). Content warning: it learned some awful stuff from the Internet.

[gettingvetted]

My vet school has a teaching herpetarium and this is Milky Way, a king snake that lives here! The head of the exotics department is almost 100% sure she has Inclusion Body Disease, which is classically a disease seen only in pythons and boas, but theoretically could pass to any snake. We also know that in her old home she was housed in close proximity to a ball python that was euthanized with symptoms of the disease, so she was exposed. There are many signs of Inclusion Body Disease, including anorexia and poor scale condition, but her symptoms are mostly neurologic. She's very wobbly and has trouble turning herself right if you flip her on her back. Here she is hanging out with me and tickling my neck with her tongue while I clean her cage!

[t1me-waits-for-no-one]

For the wild anon!

•Mercury: What’s your full name? Already answered this a long ago and I don't really want to answer this again X3 sorry anon dear •Venus: What’s your first language? Español! Spanish obvs xP •Earth: Where’s your home? Next to my neighbor •Mars: What’s your sexuality? Bi! •Jupiter: Do you have any siblings? My lil sister •Saturn: Any pets? Yusss a ball python!! Her name is Damian❤ •Uranus: What’s your hobby? Draw and be there for my friends?? •Neptune: When’s your birthday? January 5th y'all!! •Pluto: What time is it right now where you are? While I was writing this 20:02 •Moon: What are you currently studying/hope to study? HOPE to study psychology Stars: Experiences •Sun: Have you ever had alcohol? Yup it was ew never again •Sirius: Have you ever failed a class? Yup but I nailed the extras!! •Rigel: Have you ever gone on a rollercoaster? Oh yessss I hate it •Deneb: Have you ever been out of your home country? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no ;-; •Arcturus: Have you cried out of something other than sadness? Happiness and laughter only •Betelgeuse: What’s something you can never forget about? Appears to be my fuCKING EX but aside that I think I will never forget the time I was hit by a car XD •Aldebaran: What’s something you care desperately about? Who's someone* Welp all my friends!!! I care so much about all of them!! •Canopus: Have you ever broken a bone? Yup when I got hit by that car my wrist got a little messed up....YES ONLY THE WRIST WTF •Bellatrix: Have you ever been forced to lie/keep a secret? Hmmmmmm yess....long ago tho I can't even remember •Alphard: Have you ever lost a friend? I'm always loosing 'friends' so yeah a lot •Vega: What’s something you’ve done that you wish you hadn’t? Live??? Honestly I wish I should have never interacted with my ex (yes I talk about how much I regret and hate her sorry) Constellations: Favourites •Centaurus: Favourite holiday? Halloween and Christmas!! •Orion: Favourite month? October/November =w= •Cassiopeia: Favourite book? My chemistry book?? •Delphinus: Favourite study? Rn Chemistry it's fun! •Hercules: Favourite instrument? All of them!! (Mostly guitar, violin and piano) •Gemini: Favourite song? Rn All of me from John Legend •Pegasus: Favourite place to be? Your eyes~ (idk my room??) •Libra: Favourite colour? Every pastel color tbh •Phoenix: Favourite thing to wear? Random shirt, hoodie and some jeans x3 •Aries: Favourite movie? Uuuuhm idk Coraline? And The Babadook!! •Cygnus: Favourite weather? Autumn and winter!! •Hydra: Favourite sound? Your laughter~ (music too) Galaxies: Love/Friends •Milky Way: Who’s your oldest friend? A friend I know since I was 3 until today •Andromeda: Do you consider yourself social? Nah or idk •Black Eye Galaxy: Do you believe in love at first sight? Nnop, I believe in a very long talk, experiences, trust and fails, recovers and all that, because imo that's how love can work well •Cartwheel Galaxy: When was your first kiss? Like....May 2016?? Idk •Cigar Galaxy: How’s your flirting skills? *finger guns* good~ (I'm so fucking awkward about it XD ask Jodi) •Comet Galaxy: Have you ever had to leave a relationship because someone changed too much? I talk about my ex too much because of this •Pinwheel Galaxy: Would you date the last person you talked to? It was @gay-beast-pup soo yeah totally definitely absolutely yes! •Sombrero Galaxy: Do you have a crush right now? The only crush I have is crushing anxiety.....and Jodi •Bode’s Galaxy: Have you ever had a secret admirer? That anon that said they want the frick-frack with me I guess??? X3 idk really I'm not the kind of person to have secret admirers I guess •Sunflower Galaxy: Would you date/make friends with someone out of pity? Nah, that's fake, all my friendships are truthful •Tadpole Galaxy: Would you deny a relationship/friendship? I have yeah, I've met toxic peeps too •Whirlpool Galaxy: Have you ever cried over a breakup? *sigh* *pulls out a chart about how awful my ex was* Other stuff: Wishes •Comet: What’s your big dream? Meet all of my dear friends here!! •Asteroid: What does your dream life look like? With 'that person' (you already know who ;3) at my side in a beautiful life together❤ •Meteor: What’s something you wish you could tell, but can’t? My sexual orientation and the "how to tell parents you are non binary in spanish" thing •Nebula: If you could undo one thing in your life, what would it be? *SIGH* •Shooting Star: If you could bring back one thing, what would it be? My kitty cat :'( I miss her so much •Pulsar: What do you hope to do in the next 10 years? Idk stay alive and with that person?? •Supernova: What’s one thing you want to do before you die? Say "My child...hear me *cough* out..the treasure is hidden in....." and die •Quasar: If you could spend the rest of your life with only one person, who would it be? OH YOU ALREDY KNOW WHO!❤ •Wormhole: What’s something you wish would happen, but know won’t? Being loved by my parents for who I truly am and not who the closeted one I'm pretending to be?? •Black Hole: What’s the last thing you want to see? Her smile and her in general tbh (y'know who ;3)

[harleyandcleomommy2-blog]

Care Sheet for Ball Python - Python Regius

Care Sheet written by: Joel Bortz

Ball pythons are one of the most popular snakes kept in captivity worldwide. Keeping them can be very rewarding and on the whole, is not too difficult.

It is critically important to have your enclosure complete and ready for your ball python before bringing it home. This way, you snake can acclimate itself to its new environment as seamlessly as possible without jeopardizing its health.

Enclosure

There are two ways to house your snake. The first, and most popular way is in a terrarium. The second method (used more commonly by breeders) is in a rack system.

The size of your enclosure should not exceed one and half times the length of your snake and should not be less than two thirds the length of your snake. In a terrarium, I prefer to go a little larger so that the enclosure is not too cluttered.

There are many who believe that there is no maximum size to the enclosure - provided the snake has plenty of hides and ample foliage.

Ball pythons are known to be shy animals and (like other snakes) will seek comfort in a small and dark space.

Heat

As ball pythons are cold blooded, they rely on external heat that you as the owner will provide for them. The snake itself will modulate its own heat requirements and will therefore need a healthy range of temperatures throughout the enclosure.

The warm side of the enclosure should be between 87 - 90 F and the cool side should be 77 - 80 F. As a beginner, and one that has not kept ball pythons successfully before, it is important to have two thermometers affixed to each end of the cage so you can see the exact temperatures at all times.

If your enclosure is too small, creating a proper heat gradient will not be possible.

Humidity

Ball pythons to do not need very special humidity requirements. The average humidity levels in your own home will be between 35% and 45%. A ball pythons humidity should not drop below 50% but 55% - 60% is ideal. As a beginner, go to your local pet store or gardening store and pick up a hygrometer to accurately measure the humidity in your snakes enclosure.

An easy way to adjust humidity levels in your enclosure is by increasing/decreasing the size of the water bowl. Conversely, you can increase/decrease the amount of ventilation the enclosure receives. Daily misting is not be necessary for a ball python.

Substrate

Ball pythons are clean animals and choosing a substrate is not difficult. Almost any type of substrate you find in the pet shop will work just fine. The more porous the substrate (like mulch) the more it will retain moisture and bolster the humidity. The most popular bedding is probably aspen shavings. Aspen is easy to spot clean and easy to replace entirely. I personally use newspaper as my preferred bedding for ball pythons.

Remember that cedar is not a suitable bedding as it is toxic to all snakes.

Hides

Like most snakes, ball pythons seek dark and secure places to spend most of their time and providing the right amount of hides is critical to the snakes sense of security. If the snake does not feel secure, it will stress and give you feeding problems.

Provide a hide on both the warm side and the cool side of the enclosure. If your enclosure is quite large, then providing more hides will be necessary. Some people also like to provide a damp hide - a place the snake can go when it needs more humidity. I personally have never provided a damp hide for ball pythons.

Lighting

Ball pythons do not need special lighting requirements and will do just fine with the natural photo cycle of your home.

Fresh water

Make sure there is always fresh water in the cage of your ball python. Some people change the water once a week. I prefer to change the water every 3 or 4 days. Obviously, if the water gets dirty beforehand, change it immediately.

A healthy ball python will not typically soak in its water bowl. Therefore, this does not need to be a consideration when choosing a water bowl for your snake.

Shedding

You will be able to recognize when your snake begins to shed by three main markers. First, the stomach will begin to turn pink, then the skin of the snake will begin to get significantly duller, and finally, the eyes of the snake will become milky and appear opaque. This last stage is called "being in blue". Eventually the eyes will clear up and within the next 36 hours you can expect your snake to shed.

Depending on the age of your snake, it will shed its skin every 4 - 6 weeks. Ball pythons do not typically have problems shedding as their humidity requirements are not too intensive. Should your ball python shed incompletely, soak the snake for two hours in shallow water. Afterwards, the remaining skin should come off easily.

It is always important to check the snake after it has shed to ensure that there is no skin remaining on the tip of its tail, and that the eye caps have been completely removed.

If you find that your snake is not shedding well, there are several things you can do to assist it. The humidity in the cage can be increased by simply moving the snakes water bowl on top of the heat source. You can also soak the snake for two hours in shallow water after the eyes have cleared (and before the actual shed has begun). If necessary, consider decreasing the ventilation in the enclosure to more successfully trap the humidity.

Feeding

Ball pythons can feed on mice their entire lives but nutritionally speaking, it is better to convert them over to rats as soon as possible. They should be fed on a weekly basis and require 1 appropriately sized meal per week. This means that the mouse/rat should be the same size as the largest part of the snakes body.

To be on the safe side, it is better to feed your ball python in a dedicated feeding cage. This way when you put your hand inside of the snakes primary enclosure, you will not trigger a feeding response and get bit. Though this is uncommon, it has been known to happen.

As your snake gets older, it will become more important to have it eating frozen thawed food. This is because any rodent older than a fuzzy has developed teeth and can cause serious damage to your snake. NEVER leave a live rodent unattended with your snake.

Ball pythons are also known to be finicky eaters (especially in the winter months) - though less so when they are younger. As long as your snake is not losing weight and remains healthy, there is nothing to worry about and they will eventually resume eating.

For the younger ball pythons who are stubborn eaters, methods such as cup feeding can quickly solve your problem. However, when purchasing a baby ball python, the breeder you bought it from will (typically) ensure the snake is eating well before selling it to you. This is why it is critical to source your snakes from reputable breeders only. If you find that your baby snake is giving you problems, make sure your husbandry requirements are being met to the tee. If the snake begins to lose weight, speak to your vet and seek advice from experienced keepers. There are also a plethora of forums online where people are very keen to help new snake keepers and posting your feeding (or other) problems can often lead to finding a quick solution.

Handling

Ball pythons are known to be very docile animals and are very comfortable with being handled. On the rare occasion, you will find a snake that is snappy. Even with these snakes, regular handling should eventually calm them down. It is important NOT to handle your snake for at least 36 hours after it has eaten as this can disrupt the digestion of its food and lead to regurgitation. Aside from dealing with the awful smell and mess, it is bad for the snake and can lead to future eating problems. It is also best not to handle your snake while it is in the process of shedding. The main reason for this is because as their eyes turn blue, the snakes ability to see becomes greatly diminished. As one can expect, when an animal cannot see its surroundings, it will become a lot more defensive and be more likely to strike. As you have kept your snake longer, you will learn when it is appropriate to handle it.

Some people are concerned about how often they can handle their snake. The short answer is that as long as your snake does not become agitated, you can handle it as frequently as you like. Also remember that the less often you handle your snake, the less it will be used to being handled. Therefore, if you are keeping a ball python as a pet, regular handling (once or twice a week) is essential.

Cleaning

Make sure you spot clean the cage at least once a week. Do a thorough cleaning once a month. This entails removing all of the contents of the cage and disinfecting them with an appropriate cleansing solution. The substrate should also be completely changed once a month. If you are using newspaper or Astroturf, change it once a week.

Sexing your snake

There are two methods to accurately determine the gender of your snake. Pop-Sexing and Probing. Ball pythons are especially easy to pop-sex but if you have not been taught by a professional, never attempt it on your own. The same applies for probing which is tricky for any snake. If you don't know what you are doing, you will cause serious harm to your snake. The easiest thing to do is to enquire from the breeder you are purchasing the snake from before taking ownership.

Female snakes will typically be larger than their male counterparts - so knowing the sex of you snake may be important to you. Female ball pythons can grow up to 4.5 feet while males will get up to 3.5 feet.

[hotvampireadjacent]

Hanging out w my pets. They both shed recently! Milky Way my ball python didn’t eat last feeding schedule and I was so worried! But I found shed skin under one of his hides so I assume he didn’t wanna eat bc he was about to shed.

I’ll feed him again next week and I’m sure he’ll be hungee.

[hotvampireadjacent]

Milky Way my ball python has gone mad with power ever since he escaped the other day. He’s looking for any weakness in my tank security to escape again. Some of it is he’s feeling cramped probably .this weekend I’ll make the final adjustments to the 4x2x2 and move him into his adult enclosure. I still need to seal it so when I pour water it doesn’t fucking leak everywhere.

[hotvampireadjacent]

Every time I go to the pet store my dad tells me not to buy anything 😭😭😭😭 I’m too weak I love my babies….. bought a lizard lounge thing. Gonna try to position the tank decore in a way for him to climb up…… Milky Way loves going up when you give him the option.

People say ball pythons aren’t arboreal and that’s true but that’s not to say they don’t enjoy climbing if you let them.

[hotvampireadjacent]

I love my stupid ball python who just sits there and tolerates me.

People are so scared of snakes and I get it but in the 4~ months I’ve owned milky way he’s never bit me unlike my baby boy dia who shows love with his teeth (cat)

[hotvampireadjacent]

i love animals so i watch a lot of animal videos on youtube (doing my best not to watch explotive ones) been on a binge watch of reptile stuff whooo wee. Learning about all these venomous snakes makes me happy I just got a non venomous lil ball python. Lil Milky Way wouldn't be able to kill me.

not that i ever had any ambition of owning a dangerous animal but next time I see/ handle my snake i'm gonna thank him for not being deadly lol.

[akirameta84]

9, 15, 51 :)

thanks for the ask :)

9, Do you bite your nails?: Fuck i do so much. I literally don't remember the last time I clipped my fingernails, since I bite all of them short once a week. Lips too. Its my most prevalent anxious tick.

15, Have any pets?: YOU BET I DO. I post about my reptiles a lot haha. I have A leopard gecko named Nova, a crested gecko named Milky Way, a ball python named Solar, and a German Shepard named Jasmine.

51, Favorite food?: Grilled shrimp all the way. Especially with gaelic butter sauce on it. mmmm