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markg
at Mon Mar 2 15:27:59 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by markg ]
This milk is kept w/o a water bowl except for a few days every 3-4 weeks, because I've been too chicken to withold water more than that. Although now I have more confidence in my setup such that I do not think it will be a problem to withold water longer.
The cage is setup with little ventilation and tight hides such that the snake can reduce water loss. The whole cage is a hide if the snake stays under the substrate, and some of it is dampened as needed.
Anyway, this is just to show you how a thin-skinned milksnake can look without daily access to standing water, especially when the snake is fed well on moisture-rich rodents. Screen tops are the enemy unless your room humidity is high enough. Not that I know what killed your snake - I don't. But if it was organ failure as described by one poster, then take my post as an example that too much ventilation all the time is not a great situation for milksnakes/kingsnakes, and standing water is not needed (much, if at all) to maintain good hydration.
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Mark
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RE: Hydration comparison #2 - markg, Mon Mar 2 15:27:59 2009