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Question about housing Rosy Boas

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Posted by: j3nnay at Thu Jan 25 20:16:44 2007  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by j3nnay ]  
   

Hi All!

I was just at a local petstore where I saw that their Rosy Boa was being housed on reptile carpet, with a half-log to hide under and some branches to climb on. When I asked the manager why they used reptile carpet instead of a substrate the Rosie could burrow in, she told me that their breeder had told them that as long as the tank stayed humid enough, reptile carpet was the best thing to keep snakes on, including Rosies. He also told her that they should not be kept in a burrowable substrate until they were at least a foot and a half long, because they tended to ingest the substrate.

What are your opinions on this? Since I've never raised Rosies I wasn't sure if she was right or not, but I've never before heard a breeder actually recommend reptile carpet.

A lot of what she said didn't quite seem to make sense to me - keeping a desert animal in a humid environment? How do baby Rosies in the wild survive without reptile carpet to save them from ingesting dirt?

Thanks for your time!

~jenny
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