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Hey Jasmine
I was wondering if you would post a picture of you BRB enclosure please. In a few of your last posts, you added a small pic of it. Would you post a bigger pic of it please?

Thanks
Rob
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"I reject your reality and substitute my own" Adam Savage
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa-Ziggy
1.0 Creamscicle motley corn--Cozmo
0.1 Creamscicle corn--Wanda
0.0.1 Normal corn
0.1 Black Pine - Spazz
1.0 Eastern King-Ozy
1.0 Bearded Dragon - Gomer

hi, I can take more if you want. I am also almost done with another one. It is nothing like this one but I think it's cute and fun (think dollhouse and bonsai and a tiled pool). I really love showing off my tank. the flowers in my gallery are also in my tank. thanks for noticing, It took me a long time and a lot of hard work. anyway here are my best tank pics.

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-Jasmine

1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
(Mercutio and Kajika)

more pics

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-Jasmine

1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
(Mercutio and Kajika)

and even more (i don't know how to make them bigger.) =(

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-Jasmine

1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
(Mercutio and Kajika)

Wow! Very nice enclosure. I'ma big fan of naturalistic vivariums. If you can, I'd like to see a full cage shot to get an idea of how much land area there is. Do you have to perform a lot of maintenance on the plants? How do you do water changes?
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Mike Lockwood
www.tooscaley.com

it's a 125gal. i just have to water the plants, i bury snake poop in the dirt every once in a while to fertalize them, it works pretty well, but the majority of the poop i just clean up. and i have a drainage layer in the bottom so I just siphon the excess water out, to keep the roots from rotting. (and so i don't have stagnant water sitting there) or if you were talking about the pool, then I do change it out every 3 days or so (cuz that's the time it takes for her to poop in there again.) and I have a filter to clean out whatever clings to the rocks between changes. And i take all the rocks out and scrub them down with soap, and then rinse them like crazy when i feel like it's getting gross. i also have a waterfall to keep it from being stagnant. (i am a little obsessive about mold and general grossness growing in there) this is my first vivarium. it is clean enough so that i wouldn't mind living in there (i am a clean freak).
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-Jasmine

1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
(Mercutio and Kajika)

here, i just took this pic, it's crappy, but i noticed that in the others you couldn't see her hide-hut. (It's the rock pile on the left side)

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-Jasmine

1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
(Mercutio and Kajika)

by the way, someone asked me how i did it a while ago, and this is the response i gave him, i know you probably don't care, but i like to talk about my viv so here's my response from a few weeks ago.

"the pond area is just tow slabs of glass siliconed in at an angle to make it more realistic. I then covered the whole water area with black slate by siliconing the slate to the glass. the bottom of the pool is just a bunch of black slate i didn't silicone that down for easy cleaning. There is a simple fountain pump in the pond that goes up the back and spills onto my driftwood background to make a water fall. (see my gallery in the photos section) the background is expanding foam and cypress driftwood(so it doesn't rot) covered in black silicone and coco bark. the land areas are a little trickier. the passion vines are actually in unglazed terra-cotta pots submersed deep in the rest of the substrate. the rest of the substrate is cocobark cuz it doesn't mold. inside the submerged pots there is regular(unfertalized, just to be safe)(this is what the orchid mix arrow is refering to in my picture) potting soil.(do not use potting soil for the whole substrate or it will mold) this is covered in tropical moss(no other kind any other kind will die off in these conditions.) the moss prevents burrowing to protect the snake from any potential mold in the submersed flower pots. there is also a turtle filter outside the tank, with tubes running to the pool. below the substrate there is a drainage layer made of hydoton, this allows the water to leach toxins out of the soil(the water has to siphoned out) and it keeps the plant roots from rotting. I made kajika a hide hut out of black slate to match the pool (i siliconed it together, cuz i was afraid of the rocks shifting and smashing her). and the vines are wired to the background and the top. The lights are grow lights, and I think that's it. I suggest going to blackjungle.com they will give you a step by step on how to make the background"
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-Jasmine

1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
(Mercutio and Kajika)

That is really cool looking. I'd love to do something like that one day. Maybe I can do it in my 75 gal.

How does your BRB seem to like it? Does she/he roam around the tank or stay hidden much of the time? How long have you had them in there? Any chance of the snakes getting blisters? Do you have a aquarium heater in the water?

Sorry about that. All the questions just popped into my mind at the same time. Mind answering them?

It would be cool to have a setup like that and have a couple of dart frogs in there, maybe a small softshell turtle. A real little slice of the jungle. No, I wouldn't do something like that, but it would be cool IF it could work out.

Thanks again for the pictures
Rob
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"I reject your reality and substitute my own" Adam Savage
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa-Ziggy
1.0 Creamscicle motley corn--Cozmo
0.1 Creamscicle corn--Wanda
0.0.1 Normal corn
0.1 Black Pine - Spazz
1.0 Eastern King-Ozy
1.0 Bearded Dragon - Gomer

she wanders at night, but she spends most of the day sleeping in her hut. I haven't seen her get any blisters (what would she get them from? there's nothing abrasive except the slate or the bark and she uses those to help shed, and the passion vines is mildly toxic, but only if you eat it, exterior contact with the passion vines is perfectly safe) she has been in there about 2 or 3 months. no aquarium heater, i just get too nervous about it malfunctioning, and shocking my baby. the water heat hasn't been a problem though, cuz i change the water during the day, while she is sleeping, so when she wakes up her water is usually fine. sometimes she tries to get out and it really hurts my feelings. i feel like a bad mom when she tries to get out, i mean the temp and humidity is perfect, it's clean, and she can hide or bask or swim as she chooses, so wtf?
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-Jasmine

1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
(Mercutio and Kajika)

I remember reading somewhere that some snakes can get blisters from being in an environment that is too wet/damp.

I wasn't thinking when I mentioned that about the blisters. Duh!!

Again, really nice setup
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"I reject your reality and substitute my own" Adam Savage
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa-Ziggy
1.0 Creamscicle motley corn--Cozmo
0.1 Creamscicle corn--Wanda
0.0.1 Normal corn
0.1 Black Pine - Spazz
1.0 Eastern King-Ozy
1.0 Bearded Dragon - Gomer

yeah, that's just low-humidity snakes, not high-humidity snakes like brbs
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-Jasmine

1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
(Mercutio and Kajika)

This is advanced blister disease in a young BRB. Problems can arise when these snakes are kept too damp/warm/unsanitary. This is a picture of an animal four months after a gentleman bought it from me. The condition is called bacterial dermatosis or "belly rot". It is caused by a combination of high temps, humidity, and infrequent substrate changes.

The animal was treated with topical and injectable antibiotics for several weeks. Temps and humidity were lowered. Paper towels were used as substrate and changed frequently. This is what the animal looked like one shed after treatment.

I don't mean to take anything away from your cage. It really is very beautiful and it sounds like you spend quite a bit of time maintaining it. I'm just trying to say - Light humidity, yes. Wet, dank, stagnant conditions, no.
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Mike Lockwood
www.tooscaley.com

Actually that was a great post Mike and you taught me something btw so thanks
Bob

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Mike Lockwood
www.tooscaley.com

Jasmine,
..Don't take it personal when a snake tries to escape. It is just part of the genetic code to explore.
Jeff

>>she wanders at night, but she spends most of the day sleeping in her hut. I haven't seen her get any blisters (what would she get them from? there's nothing abrasive except the slate or the bark and she uses those to help shed, and the passion vines is mildly toxic, but only if you eat it, exterior contact with the passion vines is perfectly safe) she has been in there about 2 or 3 months. no aquarium heater, i just get too nervous about it malfunctioning, and shocking my baby. the water heat hasn't been a problem though, cuz i change the water during the day, while she is sleeping, so when she wakes up her water is usually fine. sometimes she tries to get out and it really hurts my feelings. i feel like a bad mom when she tries to get out, i mean the temp and humidity is perfect, it's clean, and she can hide or bask or swim as she chooses, so wtf?
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>>-Jasmine
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>>1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
>>(Mercutio and Kajika)

It's obvious you've put a lot of time thought and effort into that enclosure. I'm sure your BRB is happy as a clam in there!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
21.29 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats