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RE: FL outdoors...

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Posted by: wstreps at Wed Mar 25 19:56:28 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by wstreps ]  
   

The boelens thing has been tried outdoors. Pretty much everything has been tried . I think a big reason there were so many black python flops is because the quality of the animals to start with. Then throw in the you have get these snakes cold enough mentality and everyone in a hurry.........time and time again it's been proven that reptiles evolved to survive a variety of extremes actually only make use of moderate segment of these extremes . The rest of the time their just trying not to die.


I would also bet lung worms Pentastomida knock off a good number of imported blacks. I don't know what kind autopsies have been done but lots of doomed animals have these worms and look good 5 mins before they die. Very tough to detect and they cause a lot of those , my snake was doing great and then it rolled deals. Guys are starting off with better animals. Should mean better successes.

I had my emeralds outdoors they did alright but no better then they did in a plastic box. I also bred regular boas outside. For pythons I bred albino burms in a big outdoor cage. The snake laid and then the fire ants came and were all over everything. The snake wasn't bothered and the ants just ate up all the goo and split. I left her out there until a few days before the eggs were due then I pulled them. It worked ok.

Ernie Eison
WESTWOOD ACRES REPTILE FARM INC.

   

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