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markg
at Fri Feb 12 16:26:24 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by markg ]
Thanks. Well you are definitely good. Thought that was a heat bulb. No need for a CHE.
My poor snakes - always getting experimented on.
Here is piece of info for you -
I took an adult female Nelsons and put her in a cage, CHE on one end. No moss, newspaper substrate. She stays on the cool end. Using a non-contact thermometer, I see temps (on her body) ranging from 49 deg to 65 deg depending on time of day. Clearly avoids the heat. She will not feed after a few weeks of trying.
Then I drop the box of moss in the cage, spanning heat and cool. After one day, she starts basking under the CHE in the moss and is now ravenous.
It was the moisture which triggered her interest in food, because the heat was always there. Of course, it is Spring now, could be that too. But I think the elevated humidity is also a trigger.
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Mark
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