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Just got my first BRB high red. Here is a pic of the little girl.

She is a bit of a nipper, but she seems like she is settling down. She ate for the first time today. She gulped right down two small pinky mice. Thank you Michael.

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still no luck, i wanna see this one i love high reds! i just bought 4 high red babies from hummel

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-Jasmine

1.4 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
1.0 Peruvian Rainbow Boa

Great looking snake you have there.
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Thank you,

Tim

0.1 Colombian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Black cat

Congrats on your new addition and welcome to the forum. Got any other snakes or is this your only one out of curiosity? Be warned you may be tempted to get another one so I told you so first thanks for the cool pic and keep'em coming
Bob

My first snake I got at the tender age of 6. It was a western garter snake. He was full grown when I got him, and had him for 10 years. They really aren't suppose to live that long. Because of him, I wanted to be a herpitologist when I grew up. Unfortunately, computers caught my attention later on. I've had corn snakes, and at a boy scout camp I was responsible for all the craptastic redlined garter snakes and a wild caught rubber boa (who was awsome). I've kept argentine horned toads, leapard salamanders, different lizards and numerous other pets, but this is my first "large" snake. This is also the first time I've been bit. Ohh, forgot to mention the time I accidentally caught a desert night snake. Beautiful rear fanged snake native to SE WA. Didn't keep it once I realized what it was of course. I also tried keeping a pet store bought tanzenian raised ball python, but it had IBD, which is why I went with a breeder this time. I love my new BRB to death, but I'm having a bit of a hard time keeping the humidity up in my Vision 332 cage. Just put a piece of plexy over the upper vent, hopefully that will help. Better pic of the cage below.

Jeff Clark has all kinds of Vision cages he uses so he prolly has the solution for your humidity problem but a quick fix and a good one would be to give it a hide so it feels secure and use some spaghnum moss in the hide to keep up the humidity in it but they really need one. Sorry if you have one already and I didn't see it. Any ?'s just post them and somebody will get to them.
Bob

Yep, she has a hide box with moss, which is under the heat lamp. Inside the box is getting to be about 85F during the day, which may be a bit on the high scale, but she loves to bury herself in the cypress, so it is a degree or two lower there. At first she would just randomly bury herself, but now she is actually using the box. I've got a habamist system set up, but I wasn't happy with its performance/coverage and the amount of water it puts out so I got a hand sprayer. Humidity this morning as per my zilla dual temp/humidity monitor was 80%, so the lexan on top of the cage apparently helped out a bit. I'm glad I did my research before hand.

I have Vision cages and cover ALL of the vent area AND the screen in the heating tower with duct tape on the outside of the cage. They get more than enough ventilation through the gap between the sliding glass doors. I use under cage heating in the Vision cages. Rather than using an overhead heat light think about an under the cage piece of heat tape like Flexwatt brand or try a ceramic heat emitter in the heat tower. These snakes are nocturnal and a light will stress them. Whatever you use make sure it is controlled so the temps do not get too hot. My best guess is that the heat you are putting into the cage with the heat lamp is quickly evaporating the water and it is leaving the cage through the screen material in the heating tower. A heat lamp in the heating tower will create a strong flue effect.
Jeff

>>Yep, she has a hide box with moss, which is under the heat lamp. Inside the box is getting to be about 85F during the day, which may be a bit on the high scale, but she loves to bury herself in the cypress, so it is a degree or two lower there. At first she would just randomly bury herself, but now she is actually using the box. I've got a habamist system set up, but I wasn't happy with its performance/coverage and the amount of water it puts out so I got a hand sprayer. Humidity this morning as per my zilla dual temp/humidity monitor was 80%, so the lexan on top of the cage apparently helped out a bit. I'm glad I did my research before hand.

I've got a small (probably 10 gal) UTH, but it wasn't providing enough heat to the whole cage and was providing too much heat locally. I bought my vision cage through LLL Reptile, and decided on getting the "complete setup" option, which was a mistake. I have another UTH for again a 10 gal setup that I can also stick under there. I will lexan up the rest of the cage sometime soon. I've got a zoomed reptiwatt thermostat currently controlling the UTH and the heat lamp. Any suggestions for viewable light? I personally would like to see into the cage from time to time.

If your room termperature does not go below 60 that UTH will provide more than enough heat. A small warm spot in the high 70s to mid 80s with the rest of the cage in the low 70s is perfect. I use a flashlight when I want to see into the back corners of the cage.
Jeff

>>I've got a small (probably 10 gal) UTH, but it wasn't providing enough heat to the whole cage and was providing too much heat locally. I bought my vision cage through LLL Reptile, and decided on getting the "complete setup" option, which was a mistake. I have another UTH for again a 10 gal setup that I can also stick under there. I will lexan up the rest of the cage sometime soon. I've got a zoomed reptiwatt thermostat currently controlling the UTH and the heat lamp. Any suggestions for viewable light? I personally would like to see into the cage from time to time.

Ambient temperature in the room is about 74F. I figured that would be fine for night time temps, but daytime temps I thought they needed low to mid 80's to be happy. I'll seal up the tank and rearrange a bit and kill the lights and see if she does better. I have her at work (great place to work) and the lighting in the office has been described as cave like already, so it will be nice and dark most of the time.

A hot spot of 79-82 would be real nice if you can get that but 85 would be pushing it and if in fact it is 85 inside the hide with the added moisture it will feel even hotter for your brb. Like Jeff said they hate light and if that means hiding in a hide that is too hot then they will do just to feel secure cuz they hide 90% of the time. No heat lamp also like Jeff mentioned just your uth and I had a pic of a 4 x 6 uth plugged in and heated up the vivarium to temps like 107 degrees from a little 4 x 6 pad so one of the best things to have besides a pair of tongs and a snake hook is also a temp gun. Hope this helps
Bob

Wonderful snake and welcome!

Keeping humidity up is important and you have already done one thing to help - covering some of the vents. I believe some of the people here with Vision cages cover most all of the vents, as the door provides enough fresh air for a brb.
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Mike

6.7 BRB
1.2 Spotted Python
1.0 Cal. King

Very pretty. I love the random eclipse toward her neck.
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Aubrey Ross

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I've counted 4 random eclipses. Although I noticed just a touch of orange in one today. She should be a beautiful adult.