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amazondoc
at Wed Feb 10 12:53:10 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by amazondoc ]
>>Reading your statement...
>>"pump up the humidity, especially for hatchlings. And I mean REALLY high, not just occasional misting. Damp substrate, wet hides, and so on."
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>>got me thinking.....
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>>I actually do NOT keep my babies that "wet" and they are thriving.
I currently have only 1 rainbow, my young Peruvian. She is in a flat plastic sterilite, no ventilation holes, half on a herp heat pad with thermostat. I have digital thermometer/hygrometers in each snake box, but hers got drowned by the condensation inside the box so I don't know the exact humidity. I keep her substrate (paper towels) damp. Nonetheless, she STILL had a small retained tail tip at her first shed. I haven't added a moss hide yet -- but I'm gonna do it soon! ----- ----
0.1 Peruvian rainbow boa (Amaru)
0.3 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Hari)
2.6 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters
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