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New savu yayayayaya

eatinmachine Apr 08, 2006 08:37 PM

I convinced my mom to let me add to my list (my list below is not right I will edit it later) so I went to the reptile show, and I looked around and saw some macklots and they were small, one with a kinked tail and the other nippy. So I held both and kept looking and saw some really cool smaller savus but 120 dollars, way out of my price range, so I remembered what I thought was a macklots and I head over. It is a savu for 100 the tipy top of my price range. I hold it and fall for it, look in my wallet, only 90 bucks but I came home with it. I am a happy kid. A little far away from the pueblan milk snakes I was aiming for. I am setting it up in a odd sized rubbermaid that is 10" w, 14.5" long, and about 11" tall. I have a water bowl large enought to soak in, about 2 inches of substrate, a hide (for now if she doesn’t use it I will take it out, and have a branch from the yard finishing baking right now. It is a sweet branch from one of what we call the "weed trees," if I ever get a digi I will take pix. She is about 3 feet long and 200 grams, about 2 years old. I know the cage is a little small for my active girl but I know she will make use of the sweet branch and when I take her out. I was told she eats anything which I can easily believe. I haven’t got temps yet. Any suggestions?
P.S I have read on macklots and savus before just nixed them off of my list because of size and price, but couldn’t nix it for long, I should have known.
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thanks Josh

0.0.2 sandfish skinks,
0.0.1 texas long nose luckily eating mice
0.0.1 vine snake
1.1.0 turtles
0.1.0 greek tortoise
1.0.0 ball python
1.0.0 corn snake
1.1.0 childrens python (one needs a vet please close to 48301 or 48302 any suggestions?)
1.0.0 het for albino san diego gopher snake
0.0.1 rosehair tarantula
0.1. black and white kenyan sand boa
mice colony almost able to keep up with snakes.
and what ever lizards my vine snake hasn't eaten yet

Replies (3)

Br8knitOFF Apr 08, 2006 10:08 PM

Josh- very nice!

I've been looking at picking up a savu myself.

I was at the show here in San Diego today, and didn't run into any!

Snap some pics and post when you dig up that digital cam!

Here's what I was able to find on the savu's for ya- looks about the same as other Liasis:

Day temperature from 78°F to 90°F and night temperature between 72°F-78°F.

//Todd

Farmer Apr 09, 2006 08:33 AM

That's great! Savus are an excellent pet snake...I have a 2 year old female. I use aspen for substrate as they really like to burrow...you should try to come up w/ a bigger enclosure. A 29 gal tank would be good as a permanent home. These snakes are INCREDIBLE escape artisits!! Make sure it's very secure!!
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JOHN H in NH

Farmer Apr 09, 2006 08:44 AM

here she is...
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JOHN H in NH

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