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terryp
at Thu Oct 21 10:26:52 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by terryp ]
Maybe not an expert, but I'll share my experiences and thoughts. I don't just raise the humidity on snakes that come from dry and/or arrid type enviroments. I am more of a "mist my snakes" type hobbyist. Someone posted the other day about how I keep the humidity up in my spilotes cage since it is so open. I don't really. I mist my snakes. High humid or wet type environmnets may cause reguring in snakes like baja rat snakes, spilotes, bairds, transpecos and snakes that come from dry or arrivd areas. The species and/or subspecies may not experience this as a whole, but some of the indivdual snakes may experience regurging or shedding difficulties. We keep our captive snakes in artificial environments. I think misting your bairds every few days and especially when they go into blue eye and keeping the humidity down is one of the ways I make up for my captive environment that I keep them in. There are most likely several other ways to do it. This is the way I do it. Placing larger water bowls will raise the humidity in the tank or enclosure without having to do anything else, but it raises the humidity 24/7 which certain snakes don't fare well in. Mist your snake that fares better in low humidity if it experiences shed problems. Of course, shed problems can be the result of dehydration. Most bairds fare good in corn snake environments, but a few will experience either regurging and/or shed problems. If your bairds is experiencing either try keeping the humidity down and mist your snake every few days and when they go into blue eye. I don't mean wet the whole tank down. Just give it a few quick sprays. My spilotes seem to love it.
Terry Parks
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RE: Humidity concerns with Mexican Baird's Ratsnake - terryp, Thu Oct 21 10:26:52 2004 