get off your high horse matt. blister won't occur if you habitat is built right, not by a wet eared zookeep from texas with a napolean complex but rather buy someone that knows what the animal needs...zoos kill me. i've seen zoos cramp so many animals in cages just to show herps and they can't even get a plant to grow. it's sad. seeing a taiwan beauty snake on concrete
and being offered water in a bowl...

anyway, i found that the larger concern is for moled poo and it's risk not only to the pet own, the vivarium but more importnatly to the health of the animal and the owners kids. salamenila is worse in bad enclosures then you'd think. i'm not say at all the DeV. is wrong but i'm saying that blisters is in conern with too wet a substrate and that's easily fixed. having too much pathenogenic bacteria in the vivarium is invisable and by far more dangerous.

we have a pastel and one spider ball in a natural habitat. tall grasses and real dirt. burrows etc but maintaining it is easy with a hetatrophic bacteria mix and virosan. blisters can be fixed by turning up the air flow, and making the right substrate which is more of a construction issues the maintenance...cough cough...IMO!

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• Naturalistic Vivarium - rosemilk, Thu Sep 22 23:58:22 2005
• RE: Naturalistic Vivarium - deven, Sat Sep 24 16:49:25 2005
• RE: Naturalistic Vivarium - Matt Campbell, Tue Sep 27 22:09:44 2005
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• RE: Naturalistic Vivarium - Matt Campbell, Tue Sep 27 23:21:38 2005
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• RE: Naturalistic Vivarium - Matt Campbell, Tue Sep 27 23:57:42 2005
• RE: Naturalistic Vivarium - Deven, Wed Sep 28 01:18:54 2005
• RE: Naturalistic Vivarium - Matt Campbell, Wed Sep 28 18:27:33 2005
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• RE: Naturalistic Vivarium - Matt Campbell, Wed Sep 28 00:12:25 2005
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• RE: Naturalistic Vivarium - rosemilk, Wed Sep 28 23:23:56 2005