mouth question... - Page 5

LLinz · 05-19-11, 12:21 AM

I'm an expert at living cheaply. My animals needs have always come before my own needs. Maybe one day I'll be able to afford both

stephanbakir · 05-19-11, 12:26 AM

Thats a great attitude to have!

LLinz · 05-19-11, 10:14 PM

Put a fountain in his tank today, he looooves it

paulholcomb · 05-20-11, 03:15 PM

what kind of substrate are you using?

mykee · 05-20-11, 03:24 PM

Just thinking; maybe naming this snake "Sneezy" was jinxing him from the get-go.

LLinz · 05-20-11, 04:03 PM

His substrate is a mix of repti bark and eco earth. I'm starting to wonder if the humidity gauge is not accurate.

LLinz · 05-20-11, 04:06 PM

And I was thinking that too, lol. When I got him, he didn't have any kind of thermometer, just a small heat pad, and light hood with one bulb in it. The guy that owned him for 3-4 years didn't moniter heat, or humidity. Could all the changes I did with him have caused him to get sick?

mykee · 05-20-11, 07:59 PM

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"His substrate is a mix of repti bark and eco earth"

Bad news.
Dump it all and use paper towel or newspaper until he's better. And then for the rest of his life...

LLinz · 05-20-11, 08:23 PM

Really? I use that mixture because it holds humidity better. I had paper towel in there for a day and he spent his time tunneled under it and put it in his water bowl and somehow up his tree branch lol

xScoutx · 05-21-11, 01:14 AM

First off while reading this thread, I found so much useful information I thought my head would get heavy and I'd fall over. I never would have known that screen tops are nearly useless for high-humidity snakes, and I'm glad I did! I have a Kenyan Sand Boa so, just a question to anyone with this kind of information, would I need to keep a certain humidity? She seems fine and I've tried looking it up but all sites say something different. She's native to a desert so I didn't think she'd need so much humidity... and the garters are said to have normal household humidity, all I have for them is a heat pad and it's warming their cage up to about eighty degrees. Just a question I had for anyone to answer, I figured I'd ask here than create a whole new board. x.x

Also, I'm really worried about Sneezy too. Really sorry that I don't know much, still learning myself, but I hope he gets better soon. It's good that he's really active and still eating though, I think... he sounds really cute. And him dragging a paper towel around is adorable. Really hope things go well for you!! And sorry I'm not much help here >.<

LLinz · 05-21-11, 02:10 AM

Thanks, I'll be posting on here as soon as I get back from the vet on Tuesday, I'm sure some pple are curious as to what's going on with my lil buddy Sneezy. He is eating, and super active ( playing with and wrapping around the temp probe until I had to tape it up!he likes to rearrange his tank to suit his own personal preferences :P) so I'm hoping that he'll be ok soon. He's become a part of my little family of random critters, he's so much fun.

If you look in the forum that is specifically for KSBs, there will be lots of info there, I learned the hard way to not read any random internet site about snake care, most of it is totally accurate. All you'll ever need is this forum to get all your answers

LLinz · 05-21-11, 02:57 AM

Meant to say INaccurate

mykee · 05-21-11, 07:44 AM

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"I'm sure some pple are curious as to what's going on with my lil buddy Sneezy. He is eating, and super active ( playing with and wrapping around the temp probe until I had to tape it up!"

I hate to always be the one who comes in and rip apart husbandry, but moving your temp probe "up" as you say makes is almost completely inneffectual in doing it's job; hot air rises, so the temperature on your probe that is higher than ground level will most likely be higher than the temp a t ground level where your snake lives. Temps that are too low will cause a bunch of different health issues, including respiratory infections.

Lankyrob · 05-21-11, 08:39 AM

Also "tape" and snakes dont mix - never put tape inside a vivarium.

LLinz · 05-21-11, 01:53 PM

I just taped the cord to the wall, as he was hanging off of it and I was worried it would break. It is at ground level. And I meant to say that its the humidity gauge probe, not temp probe, sorry for my terrible explaining skills!

Mykee, I'd rather you "rip apart husbandry" then have my snake suffer because I didn't know better! rip away, oh knowledgeable one!

Should I let the probe dangle then? Also, I have taped the cord for the fountain for the same reason, little bugger was all over it. Is that ok? Its been taped for a few days and its been fine. Suggestions?