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Old 03-20-12, 08:18 PM   #1
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Help me please! :D

I need to start getting things together for the baby BRB, so i'll appreciate any tips, suggestions, and most of all I'll be eternally grateful if you post pictures of your BRB habitats, pretty please!

What kind of tub should I get? How big? How many holes do I drill?

Tell me EVERYTHING!

I've been doing research, but it's always nice to hear about personal experiences and preferences.

They're keeping me updated on how he's doing, and he seems to be doing very well, so I'll probably have him sooner than I expected. So I must be ready!

Thankees!
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Old 03-20-12, 08:33 PM   #2
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Re: Help me please! :D

1 think i will tell you... keep up the humidity.. trust me i lost my BRB since i messed..

long story short, new cage, bad humidity, and my lack of knowing it, caused my BRB her life.. so ... with that....

i strongly reccomend a tub, size depends on the age, mine liked to crawl and be active, climb and stuff, so i say a little bigger is better, just make sure there is hides...

if Snakesitter, or RainbowsRus sees this, they will know alot about them, they bother are great breeders of BRB.

as for holes, that just depends on heat, and humidity, start with a couple... if the heat/humidity is TOO HIGH, put more holes.. just keep playing till you get good temps/humidity.

hope i helped in some slight way...
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Re: Help me please! :D

Awww I'm sorry!

Yeah I'm here because I want to get it right on the first try. I already got lectured on humidity and temps and stuff, but I don't know what babies prefer in terms of hide sizes and how much should I decorate and so on.

He's only a couple months, so I'm gonna keep him in a tub until he gets bigger, but I have a 20g tank for him already. I'm getting my Milk a new one next week so I'll just use her current tank for the baby.

My plan is to set up the heating and humidity and all that in the tank, and just place the tub inside of the tank. That way i won't have to worry about buying more heating supplies and what not. The tank is 20g tall, but I should probably get a smaller tub for now right?

Here's a pic in case you haven't seen it in the other thread.


He still tiny. And I have small hands too lol. So from what I've read and heard, it's better to keep in smaller spaces when they're babies?

And can I just get like a regular tub at walmart? Or are there ones specifically for reptiles? I don't need anything fancy because I'm sticking to just 2 snakes (at least for now) so I don't plan on having racks and all that fancy shmancy pro-stuff.

I just want to keep my snakezillas happy
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Just get am regular tub I got mine at walmart and does perfect for my dum tubs are a god send cheap to like 5 bucks
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Just get am regular tub I got mine at walmart and does perfect for my dum tubs are a god send cheap to like 5 bucks
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When I get home ill upload some pics
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You should aslo post more pics of your Coral!
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Re: Help me please! :D

i got my tubs (all 10) at target... for .90 cents a piece.. they are only 6qts though....

as for the smaller tub for babies, i think that is just for BP, for baby BRB i think it would be better for a slightly bigger, since babies will climb. just put a few extra hides and decor, just to make sure.

i started my baby off in a 64 qt... worked really good!, but switched to a 10 gallon tank... it was horrible.. then she was in my rack, in a 41 qt tub, worked awesome!! then i switched to custom 4x2x2 tank, witch caused nothing but problems... i am assuming that mine got IBD as well...

and its okay, i am trying to help people with my lose, to help people keep there BRB happy...
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I think alot of others will agree with me on this because it is said alot and I think we all want to change that. Bigger is always better. The reason for people saying that it is better to keep them in smaller spaces is because they say that there snakes will get lost in the tank. THIS IS WRONG. Your snake will NOT get lost. The more space the better because then they have more room to move around. You shouldn't worry if a tank is to big, only if it is too small.
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I think alot of others will agree with me on this because it is said alot and I think we all want to change that. Bigger is always better. The reason for people saying that it is better to keep them in smaller spaces is because they say that there snakes will get lost in the tank. THIS IS WRONG. Your snake will NOT get lost. The more space the better because then they have more room to move around. You shouldn't worry if a tank is to big, only if it is too small.
this is true, but with some speices (ie: royal pythons(Ball pythons)) you want smaller.

but i agree with you as for a BRB bigger will be fine. since they like to climb. as babies, once mine hit a year, she burrowed more than climbed.
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You should aslo post more pics of your Coral!
Yea some time I will got my phone only so I have to get pretty close and don't wanna get tagged lol
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this is true, but with some speices (ie: royal pythons(Ball pythons)) you want smaller.
I don't know. HMMMMMM. I hope someone else will get in on this! I think that bigger is better even with ball pythons. What is your reasoning behide thinking that ball pythons its not better?
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I think alot of others will agree with me on this because it is said alot and I think we all want to change that. Bigger is always better. The reason for people saying that it is better to keep them in smaller spaces is because they say that there snakes will get lost in the tank. THIS IS WRONG. Your snake will NOT get lost. The more space the better because then they have more room to move around. You shouldn't worry if a tank is to big, only if it is too small.
I was told that they will be calmer in a smaller space as babies. Because even like a 10g tank would be too big and therefore stressful...

But since you say bigger is better, and assuming that humidity is not a problem for me (other than that I have a hard time keeping it below 60% for my milk snake...), could I just put him straight in the 20g? I would put plants and a lot of hides in to make it not seem big for him. I'm a little afraid that the humidity will be way too high in a tub. The humidity outside is pretty much always between 70% and 85%, so I've been having the opposity issues with humidity. o.O

I also have a 5(ish) gal breeder tank... but I don't really like it so I'm gonna be using it as a travel tank for Penelope.
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The only thing I would worry about having a bigger tank would be keeping the humidity. Other than that I think you should be good with the 20 gallon.
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Drill more holse in the tub more holes make more airflow and useing an tank long as you keep the temp and humidity there won't be problem
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