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HEY I WAS WONDERING WHAT SIZE TUB SHOULD A 600 GRAM 3 FOOT BALL PYTHON BE IN?

THANKS. MARK

I keep mine in I believe they are 41 quart tubs. Bout 3 feet long and a foot wide. Label says they're supposed to go under the bed for sweaters but I know better...

~jenny
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1.2.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, Periscope, and dah bebbies)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)
0.0.1 Mountain Horned Lizard (Freckles)
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 mice (Cute Girl Mousy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
3.0 horses (Buddy, Sam, and Scout)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
0.0.1 chupacabra (it ate our chickens)

jenny.thegreenes.org

do balls need hides in the bins or are they fine without them.

I offer them but they don't seem to care either way. I find them out of the hides almost as much as I find them in them, which leads me to think that the tubs make them feel like they're in burrows or something along those lines and they feel safer. My baby snakes don't use the hides I offer at all.
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1.2.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, Periscope, and dah bebbies)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)
0.0.1 Mountain Horned Lizard (Freckles)
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 mice (Cute Girl Mousy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
3.0 horses (Buddy, Sam, and Scout)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
0.0.1 chupacabra (it ate our chickens)

jenny.thegreenes.org

I do not....my racks are black which provide my animals with dark enclosures and security. If you have dark racks I don't see the need
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Nick

Do you have the problem that Rubbermaid and Sterilite aren't "Really" storage boxes? I find myself walking through Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowes, and thinking "Breeder box, hatchlings, hide box, water bowl, incubator, home-made rack system". Nothing is what it is sold for. Had a guy in my office the other day talking about redoing his bathroom and was getting a new shower. I actually stopped to ask what he was doing with the old one with no intention of using it for a shower.

What an addiction.
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Lead us not into temptation. We can find it on our own.

Ahahaha YES I do have that problem. I'm doing the same thing asking my friends who work at places like home depot and lowes if there's a way I can get a shower for cheap. Not gonna use it for a shower, of course. lol!
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1.2.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, Periscope, and dah bebbies)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)
0.0.1 Mountain Horned Lizard (Freckles)
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 mice (Cute Girl Mousy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
3.0 horses (Buddy, Sam, and Scout)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
0.0.1 chupacabra (it ate our chickens)

jenny.thegreenes.org

I use 32 quarts sterlites for even my bigger girls, and they suit them fine IMO.
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Thanks,
Amy
www.myboids.4t.com
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1.14 Normal ball pythons
1.0 Pastel ball pythons
0.0.1 Sinaloan Milk Snake
0.0.1 Plains Garter
0.1 Normal Kenyan Sand Boa
2.0 Anery Kenyan Sand Boa
1.0 Mid-Baja Rosy Boa
0.1 Leucistic Texas Rat
1.2 Dumeril's Boa
1.2 BCI
My list is too long, so I'll stop here!

I find myself looking at items and thinking "I could build an incubator out of that..."
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)

I just gutted a console TV because it didn't work. Plexiglass, Acrylic, or Sliding Glass on the front, a little decor inside and it's Animal Planet 24/7/365.
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Lead us not into temptation. We can find it on our own.

WHOA! That is an AWESOME idea! What do you mean by "console tv"? Like a regular ole sony that stopped working or what?

Got any other cool ideas like that?

~jenny
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1.2.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, Periscope, and dah bebbies)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)
0.0.1 Mountain Horned Lizard (Freckles)
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 mice (Cute Girl Mousy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
3.0 horses (Buddy, Sam, and Scout)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
0.0.1 chupacabra (it ate our chickens)

jenny.thegreenes.org

Sorry it took so long to get back to this one. Yeah, any solid exterior. I haven't decided whether to make it an enclosure or try to see if it would make an incubator. Here are some start out pics. I have guttted the set. I'll send updates as I get the time to work on it.

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Lead us not into temptation. We can find it on our own.