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gex-anon
at Sat Oct 18 13:36:48 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by gex-anon ]
Okay, here we go...
I agree with everything Julian has said.
1. That large of an enclosure would be difficult to keep a chondro in for several reasons.
a)In such an open enclosure, humidity is difficult to maintain unless you have misting systems running several times daily.
b)How do you plan to feed this chondro? Chances are good it will find the safest spot it feels comfortable in, which will likely be fairly well concealed and possibly high up. Just finding your chondro for it's feedings will be difficult.
c)Getting proper thermal gradients in something that large is difficult as well. The entire room would have to be wired for heat and light and would be most likely rather difficult to keep up with.
2. Keeping chondros with other animals is not the best of ideas for three reasons.
a)Your chondro may get stressed by the presence of other larger animals in the cage on a regular basis, including you.
b)Larger animals may hurt or attack your chondro. You yourself may even injure the chondro by stepping on it if it decided to ground itself and you didn't notice.
c)Your chondro may eat any smaller animals such as geckos that you may put in there.
3. The two people that said chondros are evil and will readily bite must not have worked with very many chondros. I currently have 23 chondros, 3 of which have foul personalities, but even they will allow gentle handling if the mood is right for them. Even my hatchlings are pretty calm. To say all chondros are nippy and foul-tempered shows a lack of experience of working with these animals.
If you are looking for more chondro information, I'd highly recommend checking out Chondroweb or the Morelia Viridis Forum. Both are frequented by breeders and experienced keepers of Green Tree Pythons.
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Oh my... - gex-anon, Sat Oct 18 13:36:48 2003