guitrage
11-24-04, 02:25 PM
Quote from BoaphilePlastics.com:
"Keeping and or breeding Reptiles best really requires a room of a reasonable level of warmth. We recommend that it is best to keep Reptiles in any type of caging in a room that is at the minimum 72 degrees during the day time and not cooler than 68 degrees at night. Better yet keeping your room at 75 degrees will make you and your Reptiles much happier. The vast majority of Reptiles commonly kept are tropical animals or animals that come from areas where the temperatures are relatively warm. This fact means that we must keep our charges warm to keep them living and healthy. You must remember that the temperature of your room IS the temperature of the fresh air that is going to circulate into the cage where your Reptile is kept. Therefore if your Boa Constrictor is in a 62 degree room, regardless how warm you are able to get the enclosure, the air that will come into that enclosure will be just 62 degrees. This is a very low temperature and a recipe for a cold and unfortunately for the Boa, possibly pneumonia and death. The air when circulating into the enclosure must be warmed to whatever the temperature is within that cage. In the mean time the draft caused by this cold air can whip in and around your Boa. Many Reptiles tend to hide or go to the coolest place possible when in captivity. For this reason it is always much much better for Reptiles to be kept in a room that is closer to the temperature desired inside the cage. Ideally we recommend that cages be kept in a room that is not less than ten degrees cooler than you expect the interior cage temperature to reach. These are just some good common sense rules of thumb and part of what we hope to do at Boaphile Plastics in being a full service company. We are here to help our customers should you have additional questions regarding heating or any other issues."
What do you think about this? My house often drops to the low 60's, and doesn't usually go above 70 during the winter. Does it need to be warmer if I'm going to be keeping a ball?
"Keeping and or breeding Reptiles best really requires a room of a reasonable level of warmth. We recommend that it is best to keep Reptiles in any type of caging in a room that is at the minimum 72 degrees during the day time and not cooler than 68 degrees at night. Better yet keeping your room at 75 degrees will make you and your Reptiles much happier. The vast majority of Reptiles commonly kept are tropical animals or animals that come from areas where the temperatures are relatively warm. This fact means that we must keep our charges warm to keep them living and healthy. You must remember that the temperature of your room IS the temperature of the fresh air that is going to circulate into the cage where your Reptile is kept. Therefore if your Boa Constrictor is in a 62 degree room, regardless how warm you are able to get the enclosure, the air that will come into that enclosure will be just 62 degrees. This is a very low temperature and a recipe for a cold and unfortunately for the Boa, possibly pneumonia and death. The air when circulating into the enclosure must be warmed to whatever the temperature is within that cage. In the mean time the draft caused by this cold air can whip in and around your Boa. Many Reptiles tend to hide or go to the coolest place possible when in captivity. For this reason it is always much much better for Reptiles to be kept in a room that is closer to the temperature desired inside the cage. Ideally we recommend that cages be kept in a room that is not less than ten degrees cooler than you expect the interior cage temperature to reach. These are just some good common sense rules of thumb and part of what we hope to do at Boaphile Plastics in being a full service company. We are here to help our customers should you have additional questions regarding heating or any other issues."
What do you think about this? My house often drops to the low 60's, and doesn't usually go above 70 during the winter. Does it need to be warmer if I'm going to be keeping a ball?