"The substrate should be either a white/paper towel or newspaper. Having a white substrate makes seeing mites relatively simple as well as looking at the appearance of feces. A perch the thickness of the snake can be from a pvc pipe, wooden dowel or natural branch. Incidents of scale problems have been observed when emerald tree boas were kept in humid conditions and on pvc piping. With natural branches, you can run into the problem of mites hiding under the bark. I personally feel wooden dowels are great for isolation cages because they have no spacesfor mites to hide in and do not seem to cause skin problems as pvc pipes do occasionally. However, without proper ventilation, the dowels, like branches, can develop fungi which should be carefully watched for. Proper ventilation will solve that problem. "



this is the quote from www.corallus.com ... how do you manage to keep it well ventilated and yet very humid at the same time? it seems to me a screened cage w/ a humidifier would be best

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