My New Savannah! Pics & Possible Name?

[Calihusker]

Name him Chuckles

[MrBosc]

Originally Posted by Lankyrob

Glad that you loss didnt put you off look forward to seeing him in the big viv, keep the pics coming

Thanks LankyRob, and yes that big viv couldn't come sooner! I come back today and omd it's like... a dinosaur has been in there it's trashed! my nice Arcadia UV is on the substrate, he's yanked out my thermostat probe (Infernalis if you're reading this I now remember you stating "I'd watch that probe, cera yanked mine out and killed it") and actually scratched my glass. He really does need a new home lol worst of all I'm struggling to get the UV Tube back up he hisses everytime I move the thing :P

[dinosaurdammit]

Originally Posted by MrBosc

Thanks LankyRob, and yes that big viv couldn't come sooner! I come back today and omd it's like... a dinosaur has been in there it's trashed! my nice Arcadia UV is on the substrate, he's yanked out my thermostat probe (Infernalis if you're reading this I now remember you stating "I'd watch that probe, cera yanked mine out and killed it") and actually scratched my glass. He really does need a new home lol worst of all I'm struggling to get the UV Tube back up he hisses everytime I move the thing :P

omg, name him dinosaur! id be flattered to no extent and when my thumb gets better draw you so many pictures of that guy its not even funny

[MrBosc]

Originally Posted by jarich

What would the heater be for though? I guess if it was to further warm your substrate that might work, but not for a basking spot. You need the floods to both get the basking spot up that high (most heaters wont safely go as high as you want for the basking spot) and to heat the rest of the enclosure's ambient temps to as warm as you need. Plus, that heater will cost you way more to run than three 40 watt spotlights.

Lol, well I actually thought of that myself.. I'm not sure exactly how the thing works but it was £120 :O and yes on my next viv I'll get a good few halogen flood lights to heat the majority if not all of him when he basks

[MrBosc]

Originally Posted by Calihusker

Name him Chuckles

That's a funky name =] I think because of what I've seen of him I may stick with zilla because he really is a huge beast :P Thanks for your input though =D

[DiscoPat]

Name him Phillip.

[MrBosc]

Originally Posted by dinosaurdammit

omg, name him dinosaur! id be flattered to no extent and when my thumb gets better draw you so many pictures of that guy its not even funny

Lmao, that isn't such a bad name is it? defines big and scary I think just like my big bosc will have to have a think about that =D

[MrBosc]

Originally Posted by DiscoPat

Name him Phillip.

I can't think of any familiarity with the name Philip to my sav :P Thanks for the suggestion and loving the swat pic! =D

[dinosaurdammit]

Originally Posted by MrBosc

Lmao, that isn't such a bad name is it? defines big and scary I think just like my big bosc will have to have a think about that =D

if anything name him king george, tyrant lizard n all that :P

[MrBosc]

Originally Posted by infernalis

I put a space heater near my cage in the winter, I have noticed that they both spend more time on this end lately.

My soil is 82 degrees at depth.

If I find it hard to keep an ambient temperature I think it would be best to move the vivarium in front of my radiator, it is higher and greater in length than the vivarium so it would cover all of it. Id just had to play around with the radiator heat number to keep the sweet spot but at the moment everything is fine.

Another little update, the previous owner fed him on medium to small mice, my reptile shop said it may be good to try him on the juvenile rat, it's been in there since 9 last night but he hasn't touched it. I popped his viv on around an hour ago and he's basking at the moment int he same space he was last night but he still hasn't gone for the rat just yet. I'm assuming he may just be building up his temperature and then go after it later, what's your thoughts? it's just a was so used to my other Bosc and this one acts differently, seems a little bit lazy at the moment. However yesterday when I was out it looked like he had a right mess around in there.

Also I know they vary in colour but his tail is lighter than the rest of him, is this just normal or could it be because of something else?

[MrBosc]

Originally Posted by dinosaurdammit

if anything name him king george, tyrant lizard n all that :P

Aha yeah I get where you're coming from with those names. Although I starting to like the name Mr Rex more =] and knowing my look he may turn into a softy :P I'm setting a long term goal to get to the stage where me and Mr Rex will be sitting on the bed watching Nat Geo Wild :P I've seen people who have been able to get there their Savannah's that placid they just chill out next to them =] I was very very close with my last one and hope to do it again with Mr Rex =D

[infernalis]

aside from being a little chubby and clean, I could see nothing in your photos to indicate that his tail is less than normal mate.

I hope this rat is already dead..

and if he's not going for it, I would put the rat back in the fridge for a day and try again tomorrow.

[MrBosc]

Originally Posted by infernalis

aside from being a little chubby and clean, I could see nothing in your photos to indicate that his tail is less than normal mate.

I hope this rat is already dead..

and if he's not going for it, I would put the rat back in the fridge for a day and try again tomorrow.

I agree he looked a little bit chubby and investigated to see whether his belly scraped of the floor when he walked although I think it stayed off the floor (I read it in Daniel's book about looking for this)

And yes the rat was frozen bought from my local reptile shop, I defrosted the rat thoroughly before putting him in, but the rats been in there quite some time now :/ what would you say would be too long to keep a dead rat in there?

I will get some new pics of him as well soon =] and I think the chubbiness is due to the fact he was housed in a 4ft vivarium before I got him therefor not a lot of movement would have been made I think. But soon to come he will have a nice big one and I'll make sure I put some things in there to get him moving around like multiple basking areas, plenty of hide's plenty of substrate for burrows so in time I really hope to have some new pics looking as healthy as every =D

I'll monitor his activity closer today, at the moment he's too... like lazy although it's early and there's plenty more time in the day for him to start roaming. And I think it would be a good idea to get some locusts in there to promote hunting, my other Sav loved them

[MrBosc]

Originally Posted by MrBosc

I agree he looked a little bit chubby and investigated to see whether his belly scraped of the floor when he walked although I think it stayed off the floor (I read it in Daniel's book about looking for this)

And yes the rat was frozen bought from my local reptile shop, I defrosted the rat thoroughly before putting him in, but the rats been in there quite some time now :/ what would you say would be too long to keep a dead rat in there?

I will get some new pics of him as well soon =] and I think the chubbiness is due to the fact he was housed in a 4ft vivarium before I got him therefor not a lot of movement would have been made I think. But soon to come he will have a nice big one and I'll make sure I put some things in there to get him moving around like multiple basking areas, plenty of hide's plenty of substrate for burrows so in time I really hope to have some new pics looking as healthy as every =D

I'll monitor his activity closer today, at the moment he's too... like lazy although it's early and there's plenty more time in the day for him to start roaming. And I think it would be a good idea to get some locusts in there to promote hunting, my other Sav loved them

Quick Update,

He ate the rat =]

[dinosaurdammit]

i know there is a breed of rat that has a high fat content, its bad for boas but pythons can handle it. can anyone remember the breed and if its bad for monitors?