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ArtInScales
at Wed Jan 23 09:23:24 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ArtInScales ]
Males do usually stay smaller than females, but the males still get pretty big. I used to have a 12ft 80pound male, so I guess it's all relative.
If you have a spare bedroom for the snake that's great. I would suggest to either buy or build a cage for him and set it up in the bedroom. A room that is one big cage doesn't work very well. When we bought our house in the early 90's we hade a spare bedroom and decided to make it one big cage for all our bigger snakes(I know, bad husbandry to house multiple snakes together, we didn't know that back then). The room had hardwood floors, so we pulled the baseboards off, laid down plastic and tacked the baseboards back on to hold the plastic and not let the snakes get under it. We put a space heater in that ran of a thermostat and a humidifier. It didn't work too good. The snakes stayed on the floor, so we had to really heat the room up to get the floor area warm. Then there's entering the room. We had to peak our head in to see where all the snakes were before entering and it could be dangerous to walk around because you are in their domain.
Another thought is when you get your second burm (we all know you will, HaHa) you won't have anyplace to put it if you use the whole room for a cage.
Just my thoughts,
Randy
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RE: trouble..... - ArtInScales, Wed Jan 23 09:23:24 2008