Posted by: markg at Mon Mar 19 11:01:03 2007 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ]



That was the magic piece of info.. 2 years old and male. Yeah, what DMong said. And to reiterate, he may not be interested in feeding for a month or more.



BTW, if you can, try and make sure that the hot part of the cage is just at one end. Ruthveni do very well in cool cages as long as they have access to a warm area when needed (and you can turn that off at night.)



Once when we lost power during Feb, of course just after I had fed all of the last year's babies, the thayeri and ruthveni digested the food just fine when cage temps were in the low 70's. Cal kings puked.

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Mark





Funny I was going to ask this question which you just answered my Ruthven is 2 years old roughly 3 feet long (little less) His enclosure is 38 inches long and 14 wide 13 high.

His warm side is 85 yet as a whole he prefers the coller side which drops to 68/70. He will go in warm side after eating or now and than but as a whole prefers cooler.

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