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Jeff Clark
at Sat Nov 27 12:28:26 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jeff Clark ]
That screen top is allowing too much humidity to escape from the cage. This time of year with us heating our homes the indoor humidity is extremely low. If you have a heater on the cage it is heating air in the cage which allows that air to pick up moisture and the warm moist air then rises out through the screen top. Cool, very dry room air then drops into the cage to replace that rising warm moist air. Most other snakes require lots of ventilation. These snakes do best with very little ventilation. You need to cover at least 95% and perhaps as much as 99% of the screen top. In doing so you will retain moisture inside the cage but also retain heat so whatever method you are using to heat you will need to reduce the heat to avoid overheating the cage and the snake. This is very important as it is easy to overheat and kill these snakes. If you are using a light to heat the cage that light is also a problem. These snakes are very secretive and are nocturnal. A light will stress them and cause them to spend more time in hiding. An undertank heater controlled with a rheostat or thermostat so that it just makes a small warm area on the floor of the cage is ideal.
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RE: Couple of questions - Jeff Clark, Sat Nov 27 12:28:26 2010