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crypt keeper
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Originally Posted by Beth
http:///forum/post/3252088
Money up front yeah, but snakes are pretty easy to keep compared to dogs or even salt water fish tanks.
I love the avatar pic of your male. Can you post some new shots of him?
I keep my 3 BPs together in a large enclosure and use mailing boxes for their hide boxes. All 3 almost always choose to cram in to a single box. How 4'-5' bulky snakes can squeeze into the smallest places is amazing.
I will get some of him later on today.
Beth did you know keeping Snakes in the same enclosure is actually really not good at all? I know you may have been doing it for a many years but its actually highly frowned upon. When you find them they are normally under some hide spot by themselves. Its almost like keeping a yellow tang in a 55. Can it be done yes. Should it be no? The place where they hide if you have a temp guage I wouldnt be suprised to see if that spot was the warmest in the tank.
http:///forum/post/3252088
Money up front yeah, but snakes are pretty easy to keep compared to dogs or even salt water fish tanks.
I love the avatar pic of your male. Can you post some new shots of him?
I keep my 3 BPs together in a large enclosure and use mailing boxes for their hide boxes. All 3 almost always choose to cram in to a single box. How 4'-5' bulky snakes can squeeze into the smallest places is amazing.
I will get some of him later on today.
Beth did you know keeping Snakes in the same enclosure is actually really not good at all? I know you may have been doing it for a many years but its actually highly frowned upon. When you find them they are normally under some hide spot by themselves. Its almost like keeping a yellow tang in a 55. Can it be done yes. Should it be no? The place where they hide if you have a temp guage I wouldnt be suprised to see if that spot was the warmest in the tank.
crypt keeper
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Originally Posted by Beth
http:///forum/post/3252088
Money up front yeah, but snakes are pretty easy to keep compared to dogs or even salt water fish tanks.
The money for snakes is cheap. You canbuy a Normal boa for $50 online get hims hipped and have his tank for $35 set up. Thing cost $100 bucks all done. Now if you want morphs and stuff like that. Its going to empty your pocket real soon. My Male was only $125. My Female was $300 and my Albino male was $500. The 3 other snakes I want I wont even bring up price. Lets just say my bike could have a crap load done to it to make it even faster.
http:///forum/post/3252088
Money up front yeah, but snakes are pretty easy to keep compared to dogs or even salt water fish tanks.
The money for snakes is cheap. You canbuy a Normal boa for $50 online get hims hipped and have his tank for $35 set up. Thing cost $100 bucks all done. Now if you want morphs and stuff like that. Its going to empty your pocket real soon. My Male was only $125. My Female was $300 and my Albino male was $500. The 3 other snakes I want I wont even bring up price. Lets just say my bike could have a crap load done to it to make it even faster.
crypt keeper
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Thanks! I take pride in my lawn. I spend many hours and money on it every year. That was before I killed it all and replanted grass seed. No bite marks.
Originally Posted by crypt keeper
http:///forum/post/3252177
I will get some of him later on today.
Beth did you know keeping Snakes in the same enclosure is actually really not good at all? I know you may have been doing it for a many years but its actually highly frowned upon. When you find them they are normally under some hide spot by themselves. Its almost like keeping a yellow tang in a 55. Can it be done yes. Should it be no? The place where they hide if you have a temp guage I wouldnt be suprised to see if that spot was the warmest in the tank.
Yes, I was aware of that general perception. My snakes go routinely to a hematological vet, they have actually seen two since I've had them (one is well known and publishes) and they've told me that; but with the caveat that, on the other hand, they can't argue with success and that my BP are some of the best looking, healthiest snakes they've dealt with coming into their office. They have the option of sleeping separately in their hide boxes, but usually choose to cram in to one single hide. When they are out and about in their room, strangely enough they gravitate to each other to hang together (2 of them do).
They have hides in the warm spot and hides in the cooler spot and go to both interchangeably and none more frequently then the other, at least from my observation. I have a temp gauge on a thermostat controlling a flexwat heat panel and another temperature gauge on the upstairs compartment that is not directly heated. They have a lot of room and like coming out and about to "stretch", to soak in their kitty litter sized pan of water, to let me know through their plexi pane that they'd like to come out for a bit, etc. I use bath towels for substrate, that keeps things warm with the heat in the enclosure.
I think they're doing pretty good and probably fairly used to each at this point (12 year together). I don't think they would be happy in a rack system.
http:///forum/post/3252177
I will get some of him later on today.
Beth did you know keeping Snakes in the same enclosure is actually really not good at all? I know you may have been doing it for a many years but its actually highly frowned upon. When you find them they are normally under some hide spot by themselves. Its almost like keeping a yellow tang in a 55. Can it be done yes. Should it be no? The place where they hide if you have a temp guage I wouldnt be suprised to see if that spot was the warmest in the tank.
Yes, I was aware of that general perception. My snakes go routinely to a hematological vet, they have actually seen two since I've had them (one is well known and publishes) and they've told me that; but with the caveat that, on the other hand, they can't argue with success and that my BP are some of the best looking, healthiest snakes they've dealt with coming into their office. They have the option of sleeping separately in their hide boxes, but usually choose to cram in to one single hide. When they are out and about in their room, strangely enough they gravitate to each other to hang together (2 of them do).
They have hides in the warm spot and hides in the cooler spot and go to both interchangeably and none more frequently then the other, at least from my observation. I have a temp gauge on a thermostat controlling a flexwat heat panel and another temperature gauge on the upstairs compartment that is not directly heated. They have a lot of room and like coming out and about to "stretch", to soak in their kitty litter sized pan of water, to let me know through their plexi pane that they'd like to come out for a bit, etc. I use bath towels for substrate, that keeps things warm with the heat in the enclosure.
I think they're doing pretty good and probably fairly used to each at this point (12 year together). I don't think they would be happy in a rack system.
speg
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Originally Posted by crypt keeper
http:///forum/post/3252198
Thanks! I take pride in my lawn. I spend many hours and money on it every year. That was before I killed it all and replanted grass seed. No bite marks.
Nice to see. I'm in the fertilizer business so that's what I tend to notice
http:///forum/post/3252198
Thanks! I take pride in my lawn. I spend many hours and money on it every year. That was before I killed it all and replanted grass seed. No bite marks.
Nice to see. I'm in the fertilizer business so that's what I tend to notice
crypt keeper
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I juI just aerated seeded and fertilized again. I have an acre and I bought the house last year. It was nothing but weeds. Some of them came back again some Im trying to kill them off. See how it looks in a few weeks.