>>Not to digress but, funny about the Desert King bit, I have a CB '07 which is very hearty but doesn't seem at all inclined to burrow in her substrate (she's in shredded aspen currently but was originally in reptibark). I don't wet the substrate unless she's in her shed cycle and she's always had perfect sheds. I live on the coast though where humidity levels are generally moderate.
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>>I'd really like to have some green in my collection and very much have my eye on triaspis in the future once they become more established in the hobby (something tells me that's on the way
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>>Best of luck and please update.
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>>Cheers,
>>Brad


Brad, I think the big difference about our desert kings is that mine are all wild caught. I haven't started breeding them, yet, but have plans for next year.

I think the desert kings spend a huge amount of time underground in cool, moist environments. In the wild they are used to burrowing and I believe the wild caught ones are very shy. I also think we need to be careful about dehydration. Here in AZ the humidity can get very low, as you know.

Thanks for the good thoughts about the green rats. They are a very cool species, but I would say somewhat trickier than Emory's rats. Emoryi is the main species I work with and they are usually a piece of cake. I end up comparing all my other ratsnakes to Emory's.

So far the moist hides are working pretty well. The greenies seem to use them at least part of the time. Interesting that I never see them going into the water jugs, so I have removed the large water jug in favor of another hide, and I'm just keeping a small water jug in the cage that I don't have to worry about very much, as far as defecation, etc.

Later...Terry








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