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I plan on keeping a new baby blood in a rubbermaid shoebox.Should I have sphagnum moss inside the shoebox? Will the lighting be adequate? I plan to buy either a T3 or T10 from AP and keep the rubbermaid box inside it until the animal grows. Harold

>>I plan on keeping a new baby blood in a rubbermaid shoebox.Should I have sphagnum moss inside the shoebox? Will the lighting be adequate? I plan to buy either a T3 or T10 from AP and keep the rubbermaid box inside it until the animal grows. Harold

I have only raised three baby bloods but have had other babies too and I find that putting in some long fibered moss not only adds a sense of security but is a good way to up humidity when needed. Then I just put one end of the box on 4 inch flexwatt heat tape. I would be leary of heating with anything else for fear of cooking. Otherwise the rubbermaid, with some solder iron melted holes, works well.
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I use a mixture of eco-earth and sphagnum moss for my blood and keep it in a 32 qt in my ball python rack. I never have to mist it because it collects its own humidity from condensation. Since moving my blood to this enclosure, she has been eating regularly, consuming at 2 rat pups twice a week without digestion problems. Every 6-8 weeks I ggave her a break, and ever 2-3 weeks I milk her out to keep cage cleaning to a minumum. She is almost a year old now and eats one medium and one small rat twice a week.

I do not consider this power feeding for a blood, as a six foot long blood python is comparable in girth and head size to a thirteen to fifteen foot long burmese python.