Ball Python Issue - Page 5

LadyWraith · 04-10-13, 05:26 PM

A really quick, easy fix for the foil so it looks a little neater and stays in place... lay the foil down and then cover with duct tape over the top leaving a square area open for the heat light. Like you have it, only duct tape it down. I found a tutorial on it on another site before I figured out the awesomeness of sweater boxes and it worked really well for keeping the humidity up in a tank.

It's refreshing to see someone open to advice.

CarissaREVV · 04-10-13, 05:33 PM

What are sweater boxes exactly.

LadyWraith · 04-10-13, 05:50 PM

Like this: first pic is of the top with duct tape over it. The second picture is the under side with the foil. This one is re-purposed (hence the 2 squares) but you get the gist.

LadyWraith · 04-10-13, 05:57 PM

Sweater box.... those Tupperware or Sterilite long rectangular boxes you normally slide under the bed. Who would've thought they make good enclosures lol. People use them in rack systems mostly but my setup is a utility shelf with Flexwatt taped to the shelf, controlled by a thermostat, and my BP's sweater box sits on that shelf. A hide on each side (hot and cool), water on the cool side, digital thermometer with a probe that measures both the hot and cool side temps, and newspaper for substrate. If you can keep the ambient temp at 80-ish in the room, it's a very useful setup that keeps humidity in the proper range.

CarissaREVV · 04-10-13, 06:31 PM

So I put in a lower watt bulb now the hot side is 89 and the cool side is 81 I won't find out the humidity until this weekend when I get paid that is Jennifer's cage Kyle has to chill in there until Friday when I can buy him something. The boa's cage is only reaching 86.8 on the hot side and 79 on the cool side we are going to have to get a heat pad for under the tank because the tank is so big that 100 watt bulb is not doing it. If feels fairly humid in the tanks now that I moved the watering bowls and misted the tanks down I tried to get Jennifer to eat a small mouse but she wanted nothing to do with so we will try again in two days see if the improved condition in the tank will help Kyle thought about the mouse but when it finally stopped twitching and died he turned away and did not even show interest again after that.

DeadlyDesires · 04-11-13, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by CarissaREVV

So I put in a lower watt bulb now the hot side is 89 and the cool side is 81 I won't find out the humidity until this weekend when I get paid that is Jennifer's cage Kyle has to chill in there until Friday when I can buy him something. The boa's cage is only reaching 86.8 on the hot side and 79 on the cool side we are going to have to get a heat pad for under the tank because the tank is so big that 100 watt bulb is not doing it. If feels fairly humid in the tanks now that I moved the watering bowls and misted the tanks down I tried to get Jennifer to eat a small mouse but she wanted nothing to do with so we will try again in two days see if the improved condition in the tank will help Kyle thought about the mouse but when it finally stopped twitching and died he turned away and did not even show interest again after that.

just try to offer once a week, no need to waste rats on every other day, as for the boa cage. 89 is a pretty good temp for it to be at. but i do have a heat pad only because i have stacks in my cage and my boa likes to lay under the stacks and i feel its too cold down there so i place a heat pad on very low to keep it luke warm still cool but not cold glass.

CarissaREVV · 04-11-13, 03:46 AM

Okay will do. Okay that's good I just didn't want the tank to be to cool on the heat side

DeadlyDesires · 04-11-13, 03:48 AM

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Originally Posted by CarissaREVV

Okay will do. Okay that's good I just didn't want the tank to be to cool on the heat side

thats why i have stacks in my cage... down at the bottom on the hot side its around 85-89 ish, then as you climb higher in the stacks its get hotter the top is at 100 ish. depending on the heat in my house, my cool side is usually mid 70's

CarissaREVV · 04-11-13, 03:50 AM

Will have to buy something to help her get up closer to the heat if she wants too.

Chris72 · 04-11-13, 09:21 PM

Carissa.....three questions:

Is the half log the only hide in there?
How many breeding rats did you get?
Why didn't you go out and just get a few rat pups?

(Sorry if I missed detail already specified....in Florida and the wifi is horrid)
C.

CarissaREVV · 04-12-13, 06:43 AM

in Jennifers tank there is a half log and another log climb that she can go hid in she actually really likes the log climb ad for the boas cage she has a half log and one of those drift wood gettups that you get at petco that has places for her to hide in i found the boa curled up in that this morning. right now we have two females and a male. we are actually going to a reptial expo tomorrow to pick up some rat pups for the snakes. hopefully they will eat them jenny never serches for food she just sits in a little ball behind her climb log or in it. kyle does though i catch him sniffing around the cage every now and then.