The viv had some actual rocks mounted to the back wall, the kind of rocks you'd stick to a wall around a fireplace, veneer material. Anyway, one of them fell off and now I have to re-glue the rock back in place and one other that's a little loose; I think they used aquarium sealant, globs in varous places, to hold them in place, but the snake liked climbing on them. I just have to secure the loose ones and let it cure overnight.
Got the cage (66"x28"x17" (lwh) internal) sprayed out with the hose, but I need to sanitize with some 5% chlorine solution and then I'm gonna use Reptibark vice Cypress, the previous substrate. The seller was also using some halogen lights vice a CHE or a RHP, shining the light through the screens at the top. I'll probably go CHE since there isn't a lot of "meat" to the top of the cage, it's actually a molded PVC cage, and not a PVC laminated cage. I'll just feed a probe from the side and hang it down by the hide. There are a lot of screens at the top, I've gotta wonder how humidity is going to be maintained. I'll probably block a few of them up but I'll probably try a basking light, mid cage, over the top of some furniture I got with one of my other snakes.
As far as the snake goes...he didn't put up a big fight when I moved him into the 110L Sterlite that I use for the Carpet previously; I put his hide in there along with some water. When I looked in on him earlier he was out so I thought I'd open up the top and see if he wanted to come out to look around; he gracefully declined and slithered into his hide, but when I touched his body and tail, using my whole hand, he never flinched...a good sign I hope. Either that, or he's faking and he'll do like the Pine did and go psycho on me!
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Originally Posted by sattva
Yea I've gotten stuck twice; Driving for 5 hours to get the animal and then two hours of scraping, cleaning and sanitizing the tank before returning the snake to it... Talk about a long day... I'm old so it would wipe me out...
Keep us posted! I'm dieing to see if your guy calms down after a while... When I got mine he would musk really, really bad... He did that for about two months and then just stopped it... I kind of miss it... It's Kind of like Patchouli... You kind of like it, but boy is it powerful...  |
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