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11-13-12, 03:43 PM
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Re: pictures of my new dumerils boa rocky
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11-13-12, 11:59 PM
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Re: pictures of my new dumerils boa rocky
my dumerils is about the same size as yours and shes on large mice
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11-14-12, 12:12 AM
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Re: pictures of my new dumerils boa rocky
let me guess...you don't have the UTH on a thermostat? that's why the glass cracked. get a thermostat ASAP. makes a WORLD of difference.
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11-14-12, 01:11 AM
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Re: pictures of my new dumerils boa rocky
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let me guess...you don't have the UTH on a thermostat? that's why the glass cracked. get a thermostat ASAP. makes a WORLD of difference.
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Why/how would a UTH crack glass? The only way temperature can crack glass is if it goes from hot to cold really fast. If heat by itself did it, we wouldn't be able to use glass cookware in the oven.
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11-14-12, 01:47 AM
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Re: pictures of my new dumerils boa rocky
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Why/how would a UTH crack glass? The only way temperature can crack glass is if it goes from hot to cold really fast. If heat by itself did it, we wouldn't be able to use glass cookware in the oven.
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she's 100% right. i cracked the bottom of a tank as a kid burning out a UTH with no thermostat. thankfully i didn't cook a snake!
(i don't know why it happens, i just know that it does lol)
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11-14-12, 02:03 AM
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Re: pictures of my new dumerils boa rocky
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she's 100% right. i cracked the bottom of a tank as a kid burning out a UTH with no thermostat. thankfully i didn't cook a snake!
(i don't know why it happens, i just know that it does lol)
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A quick search seems to indicate that it only happens if it's used improperly (with water or without allowing space underneath the tank for excess heat to escape, which makes sense, as then the trapped heat increases pressure causing cracks). I'm pretty certain that heat by itself can't crack glass (hence glass cookware going in ovens several hundred degrees).
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11-14-12, 05:44 AM
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Re: pictures of my new dumerils boa rocky
No i did not have a thermostat on the pad. Have i used pads before without them? Yes. Did i have a prob with them without using themostats before. No. It could of just been a weak bottom on the tank. There quality problems we dont all see. I did also have the tank a 1/4 inch off the wood table with the corner pads. O well its all set now with no problems. The manager at petco did take care of me and trusted me 100% to bring the old tank back after i had it all switched.
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11-14-12, 06:21 AM
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Re: pictures of my new dumerils boa rocky
Nick, no offense. You should have done a lot more research, you went prepared for a snske yet.
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11-14-12, 09:05 AM
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Re: pictures of my new dumerils boa rocky
why because i decided to switch the bedding from aspen to repti bark? because with my ball python i never used a thermostat on the heat pad? because the tank was spaced off the wood table like it should be and still was getting irregular hot spots on the pad? yes this is my second snake, yes it has been a few years since i had my ball but what makes it that i should of done more research because i didnt know what bulb to use and yes i should of had the tank set up a week before i got the snake not 3 days. ill agree with you on that part jay. but i am not here on this forum to argue. that is not my intent on these sites. not in the least bit.
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11-14-12, 09:51 AM
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Re: pictures of my new dumerils boa rocky
My Dumeril has grown from 18" Last May to just under 4 feet. That's 2.5 feet in a year and a half. Plus mines a male.
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11-25-12, 06:55 PM
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Re: pictures of my new dumerils boa rocky
Mine grew fast so far. Here is a picture of her at 3.5 months when I got her and now at 11.5 months old. She was born December 2011.
My guess is she will eat if you can get temps and humidity correct. My temp is 80 all the time in a plastic tank that is quite humid.
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11-25-12, 07:12 PM
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Re: pictures of my new dumerils boa rocky
that is if i can get mine to eat..... she ate once. wouldnt take the food today.
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11-26-12, 04:25 AM
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Re: pictures of my new dumerils boa rocky
Icole. What is your cool side temps? Or are u keeping the whole tub at 80? Do your temps drop at night?
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11-26-12, 06:09 AM
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Re: pictures of my new dumerils boa rocky
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Icole. What is your cool side temps? Or are u keeping the whole tub at 80? Do your temps drop at night?
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The cool side is cooler. I keep it in my basement. I have a 48" Pro Line Plastic enclosure with an 80 watt Radiant Heat Panel on a thermostat. I don't know the cool side temp, but the heat panel is on one side of the tank. I suspect the hot side is above 80, because of where I placed the sensor. She spends most of the time near the hot side.
As far as bedding goes I used news paper when she was in a glass tank, and now I have a role of paper. It was spring when I had her in the glass tank, and I kept her up stairs. She had bad sheds because it was too dry. I did not have a cool side and kept the temp 80 degrees, and she ate. When she was that young I fed her live mice. Now I buy live rats and knock them out. She is on medium, and about to switch to large.
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11-26-12, 06:14 AM
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Re: pictures of my new dumerils boa rocky
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Icole. What is your cool side temps? Or are u keeping the whole tub at 80? Do your temps drop at night?
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My temps don't drop at night. When I had a small tank I had the heat light on a day night timer and kept the heat pad on all the time. I put cardboard on the bottom of the tank covering the heat pad.
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