Buying supplies for new snake

[craigafrechette]

Originally Posted by IDvsEGO

some good points in there. I had a lot of my stuff on hand from previous pets so I new it worked. I also have a room that has ambient temps that If you use a tub it doesnt take much time at all to get temps and humidity up so a week might be a bit much, but I understand the point. A tank would take a bit longer. I had a couple of finishing touches to do on my enclosures because I brought home more than I planned but I left the snakes in the take home container until I had it set up to reduce the handling/stress. They didnt stay in there fro days or anything. I have multiple pet stores, a reptile specialty store, and of course plenty of walmarts near me so its easy to get what I need right away, even if it means overpaying. All in all, I cant imagine it was any more stressful than a trip to a 2 day show and the trip back, if I hadnt bought them. Or all the hands on them at the show itself.

As somebody who has been in the snake game a while and has helped a lot of newbies out, I 100000% advocate for having your setup complete prior to bringing a new animal home.
New keepers often get discouraged by the initial struggle to get their husbandry right, their new snake eating, etc...
Being ahead of the game makes life much easier on the keeper and the animal.
Most people do not have the luxury of ambient room temps being very close to the temps required to mimic the natural environment of the snake they are bringing home. So getting your heating equipment up and running, thermostat dialed one, etc... takes time.

As for the animals being stressed after an expo, of course they will be, so why not make it easier on them once they are home??

[IDvsEGO]

Originally Posted by craigafrechette

As somebody who has been in the snake game a while and has helped a lot of newbies out, I 100000% advocate for having your setup complete prior to bringing a new animal home.
New keepers often get discouraged by the initial struggle to get their husbandry right, their new snake eating, etc...
Being ahead of the game makes life much easier on the keeper and the animal.
Most people do not have the luxury of ambient room temps being very close to the temps required to mimic the natural environment of the snake they are bringing home. So getting your heating equipment up and running, thermostat dialed one, etc... takes time.

As for the animals being stressed after an expo, of course they will be, so why not make it easier on them once they are home??

that all makes sense for sure. at the same time, I don't think I would be at a show and be like "nah, I am not buying that because I don't have an enclosure ready" as long as it was for a snake that I was somewhat experienced with...which is probably on of the variables I was leaving out. We saw a GTP that we considered but I knew it was a different ballgame than what I was used to so I passed.

I still consider myself a newbie because we have only had our first snake for about a year. We got her, then went like 8 months before picking up a couple more, then like 2 more months and getting 3 more. But for the first one we definitely did have everything ready to go and had a wait to get the snake my son wanted and it helped a lot.