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Jlassiter
at Sun Jan 31 13:07:51 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jlassiter ]
>>This is a quality FR post.
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>>For the record, I currently have 4 female pyros. All four are healthy. Two have them have continued to eat through the winter, while two shut down early. Two of the females will often refused frozen/thawed, but will take live or pre-killed mice without hesitation.
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>>Some of my pyros are in sweater box style set-ups with a temp gradient, warm wet hide, warm dry hide, a cool dry hide, and a substrate that they can burrow in. The others are in tanks with similar set-ups.
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>>I have been keeping pyros for about 10 years. I don't consider myself a newby to it, but I definitely don't consider myself to be an expert either. I know that I can do more than I am to support their needs, and I have learned quite a bit from what Frank has taught us over the years here. I do know that my experiences are similar to others that have kept pyros for decades.
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>>One thing that I have learned from Frank is that we tend to provide the minimum conditions possible for our snakes to survive and breed. Why not step it up a notch and provide conditions that they can thrive under? Hard to do if your keeping 50 snakes. Maybe some of us should scale it back and just keep a few under optimum conditions. Food for thought.
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>>Greg
It's not that hard to do if you keep 50 snakes and have the income and know how to support them.......Even though I am using those OLD drawer enclosures Frank and Applegate used many moons ago...They are working and my snakes are thriving more than I have ever seen them thrive...could the thrive more...Of course they can....and....I have made some modifications to the drawer enclosures and am carrying over the idea of these enclosures into every enclosure I build...even into a rack system....I'll share pics when that is done...I think it'll be a hit, but I'm going to keep it under wraps for now.....LOL
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
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