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RE: Get the cage out of the sun!

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Posted by: jscrick at Sat Aug 16 10:44:51 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jscrick ]  
   

There has been much discussion in the past regarding meal size, frequency, and temperature maintenance of BCC. Just my experience with 50% Guyanan hets and 50% Suri albinos, but mine seem to do best at the cool end. My Suri Albinos can eat large meals at cool temps just fine. Just decrease the feeding frequency to about every 3 or 4 weeks.
They grow, but seem to stay very lean. My problem is keeping the heat low enough for my snakes. I try to cool the room as close to 80 degrees overnight as possible. It can easily get up to 90 degrees by noon. Once the room reaches the low 90's I start cooling it. I do not use individual cage heat at this time. I'm almost certain my temps were way too high last winter. I was using individual thermostatically controlled units for my breeders. We had almost no winter. The hot spot wound up becoming the entire cage. Front opening PVC cage thermodynamics was a learning process. Absolutely more ventilation was required for my situation. Hopefully I've got it figured out a little bit.
jsc
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