Enclosure from what lay in a garage

[kazz]

TRD

I'm not sure how that place is ventilated.

what about convection ?
IDvsEGO

having a warm hide and a cool hide is probably a better approach.

I used to have 2 hides. She never used cool hide.

My Ball python stays in the hide a lot but at sometimes at night I see him roaming from one to the other and even on top of them.

the is no problem at night.
she explore her enclosure fine.

I will also offer one general bit of personal advice in regards to internet forums/groups. If you aren't open to ideas, suggestions, and criticisms, don't post asking for feedback. It wont go well. If you are 100% happy with your enclosure then just use it. If you are 100% happy and confident, the only purpose of posting a thread like this is to brag.

My enclosure is made from trash so how it can be a brag ?
I read advises and decide which I am going do.

trailblazer295

What is the ambient temperature in the cage?

It's winter so it's 23-24C

[kazz]

by the way.
there is a site where a man write about breeding carpets.
here a part of an article.

I start the cooling process on about the 1st of June and it continues until about the 15th of July. This means that on the 1st of June I switch the heat in both the male and females cages off completely at night, I do not drop the temperature slowly for a while. During this process, the temperature sometimes drops to about 10 degrees during the night. Don't worry about the snake getting sick if it is too cold, as long as it has heat during the day it will be fine, so don't forget to turn the heaters back on each morning so that the cage reaches about 32 degrees on the hot spot. As with breeding all pythons, a good thermal gradient is very important.

[TRD]

But that is completely unrelated to what you need to cover first before you start to worry anything about how to successfully breed carpets. First get your basics right before exploring into everything else.

Ps. it's not about convection if the air has no place to go but circle around in the enclosure.

[kazz]

Originally Posted by TRD

But that is completely unrelated to what you need to cover first before you start to worry anything about how to successfully breed carpets. First get your basics right before exploring into everything else.

the point is carpets can handle +10 C at night as long as they warming enough at day.

Ps. it's not about convection if the air has no place to go but circle around in the enclosure.

my enclosure has vent channel at front bottom and has vent channel at rear upper . So сold air get warm one and go from heat pad to upper vent channel. New air go through front vent channel. Isn't it enough for air 40% humidity ?

[trailblazer295]

Colubrids like corns, kings etc are fine with an isolated hot spot to lay on and closer too room temperature elsewhere but carpets need a hot area of the cage and higher ambient temperatures throughout the rest of the cage.

[Andy_G]

Originally Posted by kazz

the point is carpets can handle +10 C at night as long as they warming enough at day.

During cycling for breeding, yes. Otherwise, this kind of night drop should not occur and can be detrimental.

[kazz]

my viv is updated.
all the walls is covered by silicone sealant.
2 new massive branches.

[TRD]

Sorry but it is really inadequate to keep any snake like this..

[kazz]

Originally Posted by TRD

Sorry but it is really inadequate to keep any snake like this..

why ? Snakes very often live in plastic bins had stored in one cupboard.

[TRD]

Which is also inappropriate.

Snakes are cognitive beings, people should start treating them as such.

Seeing people keeping snakes in little tubs, or barren boxes, with nothing but newspaper or aspen, a hide (if even) and a water bowl, makes my stomach turn. Just because they are capable of surviving years of neglect doesn't make it right to do so. Arguments like "they eat, poop, shed, and breed, so they are fine" is completely ridiculous. I could lock up 2 humans for life in an almost dark room with nothing in it, just enough to make them get by, and they would also be capable to do that.

Now I'm not saying snakes have the same cognitive abilities as humans, but just to make the point.

People should damn well start treating them like living beings, even if their way of life is so fundamentally different than ours that it will still take years of research to fully grasp their world. Much is already known on senses of smell in snakes, their vision, how they "hear" even though they have no ears, and recently they have been capable to teach snakes by means of operant conditioning (ie- teach a snake to perform a series of events to get food). There have been studies on how snakes are different from living in a deprived environment compared to an enriched environment, the snakes coming from an enriched environment were better in problem solving, more adaptable to change, better feeding response. This simply shows they have learning abilities, they are cognitive beings.

[kudzu]

What kind of furnishings will you be adding?

[kazz]

kudzu, artificial plants for sure and maybe I'll take unedged boards
and cover walls.