>>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!

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Exactly, the real difference is the environment outside the primary habitat is much drier. So any air exchange at all reduces the humidity. The retained tail tip could have just been a snagged shed and she pulled too hard to get off.



The moss hide will do WONDERS for her.
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Thanks,





Dave Colling



www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com







0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)

0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)



LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (02/01/2010):

42.61 BRB

27.40 BCI

And those are only the breeders



lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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