Columbia rainbow - Page 2

akane · 02-27-17, 02:32 PM

While some disorders have issues in high humidity the minimum suggested for human health in normal conditions is about 35-45% to avoid irritating the respiratory tract and being more sensitive to colds and flus. Getting an entire room to 60% is the controversial point where you start to risk mold growth, you need to be more careful to sterilize your humidifier, and increasing respiratory problems from the other extreme. I ran into major breathing problems and sore throat this past winter so we were checking what we should get the humidity up to for ourselves. At 15% the lack of moisture actually damages wood and can make other items brittle so they are more easily damaged.

GyGbeetle · 02-27-17, 03:35 PM

I have asthma, and don't have a humidifier yet. I'll have to ask my doctor, who thinks I have MS right now (looooooong story), so higher temps are bad for me. Which is why we're trying to figure out long term where the snakes will be going (build a tiny house outside, punch out a wall in our bedroom, convert our second garage to a snake room), because the snakes are housed in our bedroom. I love it, but at the same time it's difficult for me. That, and some of our nocturnals literally wait until we turn off the lights and start to fall asleep before they become active and make TONS of noise (blowing bubbles in their water, splashing in the water, trying to find a way out, slithering back and forth endlessly to the point where you can hear them, etc). If they were cats they'd be meowing all night.

and then we have that one feral inside cat that meows all night. Loud, booming meows to no one in particular, for no apparent reason other than she's slept all day and is ready to go. At 4am.

akane · 02-27-17, 07:26 PM

I slept in a room with a dozen gerbils that had 4 wheels followed by 7 guinea pigs and 2 fish tanks. I don't notice snakes lol I actually have 3 cockatiels and a pair of diamond doves in my room with 3 small baby snakes in 10s that I'm going to rearrange to stack so I can put a 90g with my bull or sumatran python, a dekay's brown snake, and 4 anole lizards. They don't even compare to the 4 dogs with the smallest by a lot being 30lbs. I do occasionally have to wake up and yell at the malamute puppy to stop barking at everyone in an attempt to play at 4am.

GyGbeetle · 02-27-17, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by akane

I slept in a room with a dozen gerbils that had 4 wheels followed by 7 guinea pigs and 2 fish tanks. I don't notice snakes lol I actually have 3 cockatiels and a pair of diamond doves in my room with 3 small baby snakes in 10s that I'm going to rearrange to stack so I can put a 90g with my bull or sumatran python, a dekay's brown snake, and 4 anole lizards. They don't even compare to the 4 dogs with the smallest by a lot being 30lbs. I do occasionally have to wake up and yell at the malamute puppy to stop barking at everyone in an attempt to play at 4am.

Hahaha! I shouldn't laugh but that's funny! I don't feel so bad then for having most of the snakes in my room. We want to venture into reptiles, and eventually get a dog (I love malamutes and huskies so much!). You have a full zoo. That's so awesome!

akane · 02-28-17, 03:42 AM

I am used to living in one room besides a kitchen and bathroom and growing up my bathroom was connected to my room so when I had back issues and we both hadn't felt like putting much money into squishy furniture in our lives I asked myself why we should conform to everyone else. We turned the huge "dining room" into the bedroom so I could lay on the bed as necessary without being locked away in a small room and it has large sliding pocket doors that open up nearly the entire end to the livingroom where my husband has his computer. Then we just lined down the walls with book shelves and our animals. My fish tanks are at the end of the livingroom, the reptiles down one side, the birds and chinchillas to one side... Then we just turned one bedroom into a cat area since we are both mildly allergic so we confine them part of the time and the former master bedroom has my bigger snakes and aquariums with the gerbils and rats because we are also mildly allergic to some rodents. Can't keep mice at all. The chinchillas are good and the gerbils aren't bad except for the number I have working on 2 separate color groups when you can only keep gerbils in single pairs for breeding. Every female needs a male and their own cage. I had them in the entryway but curious cats collapsed my stand system so it was safer and more efficient to put them all up in a bedroom with a closed door most of the time.

GyGbeetle · 02-28-17, 12:52 PM

Ok, what if I got an Animal Plastics terrestrial cage? They look like they hold in moisture much better than the aquariums with the netted tops, and they provide built in belly heat at an additional cost? We were thinking about switching the big guys to AP as their needs got bigger anyways.

One of my cats decided to walk across our low boy tank, and collapsed the mesh on the top. We had to rebuild the mesh, and the frame is all bent now. Cats are evil.

SnoopySnake · 02-28-17, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by GyGbeetle

Ok, what if I got an Animal Plastics terrestrial cage? They look like they hold in moisture much better than the aquariums with the netted tops, and they provide built in belly heat at an additional cost? We were thinking about switching the big guys to AP as their needs got bigger anyways.

One of my cats decided to walk across our low boy tank, and collapsed the mesh on the top. We had to rebuild the mesh, and the frame is all bent now. Cats are evil.

AP cages would be perfectly fine-much better for a CRB or BRB than an aquarium. I've made screen lids work for my rainbow boas but it's a massive pain. Personally I'd go with a T5 at the least, my colombians do a fair bit of climbing so the height would be a bonus BUT that being said, the T10's are on sale for cheaper and would be even better

GyGbeetle · 02-28-17, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by SnoopySnake

AP cages would be perfectly fine-much better for a CRB or BRB than an aquarium. I've made screen lids work for my rainbow boas but it's a massive pain. Personally I'd go with a T5 at the least, my colombians do a fair bit of climbing so the height would be a bonus BUT that being said, the T10's are on sale for cheaper and would be even better

Can they handle larger cages? Should I get an arboreal cage instead?

Dumb question, but how big can these babies get? I can probably google it, but I like hearing from keepers instead. Google searches are all over the place when I search up snake stuff for anything

SnoopySnake · 03-01-17, 08:46 AM

Sure they could handle larger, although I wouldn't go for an arboreal cage. They tend to climb if they can but they do still spend most of their time on the ground. If the snake is a baby you will just have to provide A LOT of cover (fake plants, hides, branches ect). They stay pretty small, 4-5 ft typically. My pair will be 4 in June and are only just over 4 ft, my female is somewhere around 1000 grams and my male is between 800-900.

I'll try to get some photos today with something for size reference as they just ate...don't want to bother them too much lol

GyGbeetle · 03-01-17, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by SnoopySnake

Sure they could handle larger, although I wouldn't go for an arboreal cage. They tend to climb if they can but they do still spend most of their time on the ground. If the snake is a baby you will just have to provide A LOT of cover (fake plants, hides, branches ect). They stay pretty small, 4-5 ft typically. My pair will be 4 in June and are only just over 4 ft, my female is somewhere around 1000 grams and my male is between 800-900.

I'll try to get some photos today with something for size reference as they just ate...don't want to bother them too much lol

Sounds good. She's not a baby. She's been in this shop since June of last year at a minimum, because we started going in there since June of last year and there she was. Was told that they are nippy, and when I held her, she wrapped around my neck, and then went into my purse. When I bought the Woma from them back in November, and not her, I felt so guilty.... she's not the mainstream snake, which is why I think people are so put off. She's not all colourful like some others. She's really healthy (I'm assuming it's a she; it could be a he), so that's not the reason.

I'm going to talk to the owner hopefully this week and see if I can buy her and keep her there until I get her enclosure and everything setup, and we pull Hope out of quarantine. Hope's been in quarantine now for a week less than 2 months.

SnoopySnake · 03-01-17, 10:06 AM

Oh ok. Colombians aren't very colorful, they are much more vibrant as babies and tend to turn a more solid brown color as they age. Brazilians are much more colorful and tend to get a bit bigger also. As far as being nippy.....I've only been bitten by my pair maybe 3 times total in the time I've had them, all of the bites being 100% my fault, I have heard of other people's being a bit grumpy but typically it's the younger ones who are nippy

SnoopySnake · 03-01-17, 07:09 PM

Ok, here are my two. Index card is 3"x5", the male wasn't wanting to cooperate. They will be 4 years old around May

Female

Male

GyGbeetle · 03-01-17, 07:57 PM

Hahhaha! Your male was having none of it! They are so pretty.

Unfortunately I'm going to have to wait. Our little mite infestation isn't going away. And I don't feel comfortable bringing in another baby by choice until we have a good handle on it. I'm still going to talk to the owner and see if he'll give her 2 weeks at his store so I can eradicate the mites. No one is getting pulled out of quarantine until the mites are GONE!

SnoopySnake · 03-01-17, 08:13 PM

Thanks, they hold a special place in my heart

not the prettiest but they're so calm and tolerant.

How are you treating the mites? Sorry you're dealing with that, hope to never go through that again

GyGbeetle · 03-01-17, 08:53 PM

Started with PAM for the tank and JurassiMite on the animals. Switched to Nix for everything. Now going back to PAM for the one tank and Nix for all other tanks and on all the animals. It's been 2 months. We've brought in 2 rescues during that time, both are in quarantine, both without mites (thankfully), but I can't in good conscious bring in another snake into quarantine right now. Unless I quarantine at a friend's house, which isn't fair. So I'll wait and pray the mites are gone soon.