newbie snakes

[mistersprinkles]

You can technically let some snakes out when they're on patroll with zero stress provided the temperature and environment are right. A ball python under a red night light hunting for food won't be stressed if you gently let it out and let it move around the (dark) room for an hour then put it back. They actually enjoy hunting prey in a bigger space like that but you want to stay out of the way as they're not smart enough to tell you from a rat once they smell it. Picking up a snake that's 'blanked out' under it's rock for the second day in a row is stressful though.

I used to have a Ball python that was more like a pet rock. It was really unstressable. I fed it in the car once.