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12-24-12, 08:37 PM
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Re: Please help... I want to understand.
Sophia is AWESOME!!!
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12-24-12, 09:35 PM
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Re: Please help... I want to understand.
She looks positively amazing. You have done an amazing job with her, I can wait until I can find a baby water snake in spring.
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12-24-12, 11:00 PM
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Re: Please help... I want to understand.
What a beautiful snake! I love seeing the few good outcomes of cases like these.  What's her setup like? Out of simple curiosity.
~Maggot
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12-25-12, 04:49 AM
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Re: Please help... I want to understand.
You have done a great job, I really didn't have a lot of hope for this little one when you first posted pictures. I am happy that you where able to save it.
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12-25-12, 08:24 AM
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Re: Please help... I want to understand.
Its such a huge change between page one and page 5. Awesome work!
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12-25-12, 09:44 AM
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Re: Please help... I want to understand.
Mir looks like a different snake! You did an amazing job! I am so glad he found his way to you.
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12-25-12, 11:44 AM
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Re: Please help... I want to understand.
Thanks guys!
Honestly I had a couple days worth of dreadish doubt too, Kat. Was always because Mir was just about to shed though, looking extra terrible. Kept throwing me off lol
And to answer Maggot: The set up is verrrry simple.
Paper towel for substrate, cardboard hide, small branch, UTH, some clay bricks, and a waterbowl. The only thing that really changed is the waterbowl. I started without one (bringing hir out to drink), then a bowl too small to fully contain hir (reaaalllly didnt want hir soaking), and now a fairly good sized one.
Happy Holidays, guys!
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0.1.0 Nerodia fasciata [Babu]
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12-25-12, 03:07 PM
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Re: Please help... I want to understand.
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Thanks guys!
Honestly I had a couple days worth of dreadish doubt too, Kat. Was always because Mir was just about to shed though, looking extra terrible. Kept throwing me off lol
And to answer Maggot: The set up is verrrry simple.
Paper towel for substrate, cardboard hide, small branch, UTH, some clay bricks, and a waterbowl. The only thing that really changed is the waterbowl. I started without one (bringing hir out to drink), then a bowl too small to fully contain hir (reaaalllly didnt want hir soaking), and now a fairly good sized one.
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Oohhh, okay. I was thinking a semi-aquatic setup like a turtle or something.
~Maggot
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12-25-12, 05:13 PM
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Re: Please help... I want to understand.
Oh nah, that's actually a somewhat hazardous set up for water snakes. Pretty much puts them at risk for the same problems Mir had, along with the potential for RI. Unfortunate, what with that style being quite the eye-catcher.
They need much more dry land than they do water. A typical terrestrial set up with an over-sized waterbowl fits them best imo.
I'm sure if the set up was big enough a semi-aquatic could be safe though, really it depends upon how much dry land is provided.
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0.0.1 Nerodia erythrogaster yellow [Mir]
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12-25-12, 05:19 PM
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Re: Please help... I want to understand.
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Oh nah, that's actually a somewhat hazardous set up for water snakes. Pretty much puts them at risk for the same problems Mir had, along with the potential for RI. Unfortunate, what with that style being quite the eye-catcher.
They need much more dry land than they do water. A typical terrestrial set up with an over-sized waterbowl fits them best imo.
I'm sure if the set up was big enough a semi-aquatic could be safe though, really it depends upon how much dry land is provided.
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Yes, this is correct. Every water snake I have ever had, including Neru (the one I have now) has been kept in exactly the same set up as my garter snakes. Aspen, a hide and a water bowl.
Also I have observed and photographed quite a few water snakes out in the meadow and in the woods well away from the creek.
One summer I saw one in my driveway, 1650 feet from the creek.
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12-25-12, 05:25 PM
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Re: Please help... I want to understand.
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Originally Posted by Sophia'sSophia
Oh nah, that's actually a somewhat hazardous set up for water snakes. Pretty much puts them at risk for the same problems Mir had, along with the potential for RI. Unfortunate, what with that style being quite the eye-catcher.
They need much more dry land than they do water. A typical terrestrial set up with an over-sized waterbowl fits them best imo.
I'm sure if the set up was big enough a semi-aquatic could be safe though, really it depends upon how much dry land is provided.
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Yeah, I was thinking a big setup with some water and a lot of land. I just tend to think elaborately. >.>
~Maggot
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12-25-12, 05:38 PM
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Re: Please help... I want to understand.
Elaborately, yes, artistically as well perhaps? I always find the more complex set-ups to be so beautiful. There is art to be made of dirt and sand! Sadly, I have no space for it to be pretty =and= functional. Maybe some day. 
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