New Baby Corn Regurgitate!!! Advice!!

[formica]

cant face reading past the first 2 lines - paragraphs and sentences urgently needed :P


first up, leave ur snake alone for a week, to settle in, dont handle, dont poke, dont disturb or move things around, just leave him alone

after a week, try feeding again and hopefully he'll be nicely settled enough to digest properly

and yep as smy said - get a thermostat - you dont need a heat mat and a heat lamp, and you are putting your snake at very serious risk by using both without a thermostat (both need a thermostat, not one or the other), I suggest you remove the heat lamp, and leave the mat there, snakes do great on heat mats. enclosure looks big enough for your snake to escape the heat in the short term, but you must get a thermostat, aswell as protecting your snake directly, it will also help prevent damage to the enclosure and fire


enclosure looks pretty

[HollyG]

Originally Posted by formica

cant face reading past the first 2 lines - paragraphs and sentences urgently needed :P


first up, leave ur snake alone for a week, to settle in, dont handle, dont poke, dont disturb or move things around, just leave him alone

after a week, try feeding again and hopefully he'll be nicely settled enough to digest properly

and yep as smy said - get a thermostat - you dont need a heat mat and a heat lamp, and you are putting your snake at very serious risk by using both without a thermostat (both need a thermostat, not one or the other), I suggest you remove the heat lamp, and leave the mat there, snakes do great on heat mats. enclosure looks big enough for your snake to escape the heat in the short term, but you must get a thermostat, aswell as protecting your snake directly, it will also help prevent damage to the enclosure and fire


enclosure looks pretty

I have never heard of anyone using a thermostat for a heat lamp? for a UTH, yes, I have one, because it's in physical contact with the enclosure, but for the lamp... didn't think I needed one. The lamp is suspended from the ceiling about half a foot above the enclosure with only a 50w bulb (red). I NEED the lamp where I live. It will be winter soon and with it down to -40C during the DAY and I keep the temp in the house no higher than about 69F, so the air temp in the enclosure gets much too cold for her. Belly heat is important, yes, but air temp is just as important IMO. Summertime the lamp is only used on cold summer night which isn't very often... I'm no beginner guys been keeping snakes for a very long time. I'm just so nervous about this one because she is so tiny! lol and I never had a snake regure with me before. If I knew she had been fed only 2 days prior I would have waited another 2 days before getting her Poor girl.