Brazilian Rainbow Boa

[boasnpythons03]

Also, do i have everything down for this guy and his needs?

thanks

[Linds]

Feed them when they are hungry. If you do not know how to read your snakes behaviour yet, a good guideline is every 5-7 days as babies, and once a week as adults.

It cost me cheaper to do all of my enclosures in epoxy than it would've with a polyurethane. I used <a href="http://www.niacoat.com/Specifications/epoxal3-1.htm"> this product</a> for mine, and it cost me around $65 CDN per gallon (option to purchase half gallon as well). That may not be of too much help, since they are not located in your area.

I would keep your neos at cooler temps than that. Babies are prone to overheating and dehydration. 75-85 has worked well in the past for me. I have kept them with warmer abient temps, but I find they do better at lower temps.

Scrap the idea of a light for heating them. Lights aren't a suitable heat source for these snakes. An undertank method should be fine (I don't like to use human heat pads - they weren't designed to be left on 24/7) unless your ambient temp is way too cold.

[boasnpythons03]

Ok thanks linds,

I was looking at the human heat pads just 20 minutes ago and they have a 2 hour auto shutoff, which stopped me from getting them then...

What do your pads do???

Can you tell me how to get past this feature if you can or how you get around it?

I would use the UTH meant for it, but it seems like they are the same thing and have heard good things about them.

I know they arn't the ideal item for heating but i have seen them run for long peroids of time without any problems, i do see where you are coming from though.

[Linds]

I just use heat tape on almost all my setups, a few have regular herp UTH as well. <a href="http://www.beanfarm.com">The Bean Farm</a> is the place to go for heat tape. There isn't anything you can do about the automatic shutoff on human heat pads... some have them some don't. If you really want to go that route, just get the kind that doesn't have it. The auto-shut off feature is a safety feature (hint hint).

[boasnpythons03]

, ok im going to go with the tape on this one i guess, on the bean farm they have the pad for reptiles at almost the same cost as the human heat pad ones!

Now its between the heat tape, and Ultratherm Heat Pads...

[HetForHuman]

i use the Sunbeam human heat pads you get at walmart, and they have the low, med, high settings on them. I have not seen the ones with the 2 hour shutoff before. They work just great on the low settings in my opinion.

But heat tape works just as well to as long as it is on a rheostat