Pics of brb setups wanted :)

[ChristinaM]

Could you guys post some pics of your BRB setups???

thanks

[maiden_canada]

picture a rubbermaid, newapaper, water dish and hide spot. also a sprayer beside it

[ohh_kristina]

Originally posted by maiden_canada
picture a rubbermaid, newapaper, water dish and hide spot. also a sprayer beside it

same here, except I use cypress mulch instead of newspaper.

[ChristinaM]

well that's kinda boring isn't it LOL.

Someone has to have their BRB in a nice enclosure setup......I know it's possible LOL

[maiden_canada]

theres an enclosure gallery..try there

[wyz]

Nobody will show them, because experience BRB keepers only use rubbermaids and if you post a pic of something else they'll have a ball thrashing your setup saying it's bad.

WYZ

BTW, Mine aren't in rubbermaids wich proves I'm not an experieced breeder

[wyz]

Bichiraddict, here ya go

Here's our setup, it's a 3 feet tank for the moment, but we'll need to change them a couple of times during their growth, so it's not a cheap thing, but we don't mind since this specie is soooo gorgeous, we want to be able to see them (at least at night when they come out).

- I took away a side glass and replaced it with a screen for better ventilation.
- The top is covered 1/2 to keep humidity.
- We mist morning, evening and night
- Theres a pool of water 1/2 over the heating pad to increase humidity.
- There's a 40 watt spot that barely hits the pool, we direct the spot to the side of the cage so it doesn't increase the tank temparature, but simply to have a day/night cycle.
- On the cold side, they have a dry hiding spot
- A drinking bowl
- 2 humid hide box with news paper on the bottow and sphagtum moss over the paper.

They eat well, shed perfectly and are really tame.

They spend the whole day in their hide box, we had one setup on the hot side in the begining (for 2 months) and they never went in it. They really love the cold, I find suggested temperatures in some care sheets are really too high.

We have 1.2 in this enclosure.

We know we didn't follow "ta rules" but we'll live with the concequence if there are any.
We are open and ready to house them seperatly if and when needed.

I'm not saying this is a suggested setup, it's simply OUR setup (for the moment).

If anybody as constructive comments, please feel free.








WYZ

[UpscaleBoas]

wyz...that is one of the greatest post i've seen..nice to see that someone would take so much time to answer a question

[ChristinaM]

Wow, now that I like. As the above poster said, thank you so much for answerring my questions I have to admit, I do like that setup.

[ohh_kristina]

nice set up! My little girl is only in a rubbermaid until she gets big enough for her 4x2x2 enclosure. I prefer display enlcosures over rubbermaids, but sometimes rubbermaids are the better choice for the time being.

[sapphire_moon]

clear rubbermaids work great to! lol beautiful enclosure. got any pics of those snakes?

[wyz]

thanks for the comments guys.

Pics of the snakes, here they are..

http://www.wyzza.ca/album/brb

WYZ

[Tim_Cranwill]

"We have 1.2 in this enclosure.

We know we didn't follow "ta rules" but we'll live with the concequence if there are any."

WYZ, Um... don't you mean your <u>animals</u> will deal with the consequences if there are any? You took out one of the glass sides and replaced it with screen to add more ventilation??? And you say you have to spray morning noon and night and have two humid hides.... wonder why????

A light, 2 screen sides, a glass tank and 1.2 in one enclosure.... and you say you know you're breaking "da rules", I just hope for the sake of your snakes that you decide to ditch some of the aesthetics in place of some practical caging methods. Looks nice but is that really important to the snakes????

[Invictus]

Oh please.

A) Neither you nor anyone else on this board has been able to come up with any scientific proof or anything beyond a bunch of B.S. trendy myth herping that lights are bad. Why? Because they aren't. The light is over the water source, which is a FABULOUS way to create ambient humidity. Last I checked, heat in the wild is created by a really fricken big overhead light.

B) So he's got 1.2 housed together. Big deal. Everyone knows it's better to house them seperately, but MANY people have successfully housed boas together with zero consequence to the animals. A snake that is stressed out shows signs of stress, and if we are going to assume that a snake is stressed out even though they are showing no signs of it, that's as ridiculous as assuming that a snake is not stressed when they are showing all the signs. As for the other reasons not to house a snake together, don't assume that wyz has an RI floating around his place. Don't assume that he won't be able to keep the humidity up just because he has screened sides. I know LOTS of people who are able to keep humidity up with large vents. (Oddly enough, they do it by putting a light bulb over a heat source, go figure!) And even if he didn't have the ambient humidity up, there are humid hides.

WYZ, I think your setup looks great, and even though it's not how I would personally choose to do it, I can see that you're willing to put in the effort it takes to have a display cage for a humidity-loving species.

[wyz]

My comments on the 2 last posts..

Thanks Invictus, you mostly said what I would of said . Like you I allways like to question the "whys" of popular ideas. And as much as I can I try to do it a bit differently, that's what keeps me learning everyday.

Tim, thanks for your reply as well, I won't hide that with that post I wanted to get replys from people who are against my way of keeping my trio.

Originally posted by Tim_Cranwill
"We have 1.2 in this enclosure.

We know we didn't follow "ta rules" but we'll live with the concequence if there are any."

WYZ, Um... don't you mean your <u>animals</u> will deal with the consequences if there are any?

If I would think there is such a great risk I wouldn't do it, that's for sure.. I'm strongly questionning the fact that snake kept together will get stressed out. If I see signs that they become stressed I will house them separetly right away.

One note about my snakes that are housed together.. they are allways purchased as babies and are kept together from that time, I never house 2 snakes that are different size and I never "add" a snake to an enclosure that allready holds a snake.

You took out one of the glass sides and replaced it with screen to add more ventilation??? And you say you have to spray morning noon and night and have two humid hides.... wonder why????

At this time in my life, me and my girlfriend are able to spray 3 times a day to keep a good humidity. We know that it's hard to keep good humidity with ventilation, but these snakes need it, so this is for now the better way to give them what they need. If for any reason we wouldn't be able to spray daily anymore, these guys would move to rubbermaids.

A light, 2 screen sides, a glass tank and 1.2 in one enclosure.... and you say you know you're breaking "da rules", I just hope for the sake of your snakes that you decide to ditch some of the aesthetics in place of some practical caging methods. Looks nice but is that really important to the snakes???? [/B]

rubbermaid VS esthetic enclosures are allways good debate starters. It's really a personal choice. I think that if you can't give the snakes what they need in an esthetic cage, you need to put them in Rubbermaids, esthetics should never be a priority, simply an added pleasure for the keeper. For the moment I think my snakes have all they need AND I'm able to have a nice looking setup, wich makes us happy. So, both the snakes and I are happy

I value anybodys point of view and like you, when I see someone is not giving the proper care to their animals, I tell them right away.

I'm not agreeing with you when you say that my snakes aren't getting all that's important for them, but I'm really not offended by that, I'm glad you answered my post.

Thanks all.

WYZ