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If you could guess, or if you know, what is the approximate monthly cost of keeping a burmese python.

10 to 25 dollars
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Archie Bottoms

>>If you could guess, or if you know, what is the approximate monthly cost of keeping a burmese python.

Mine is around $40.

My costs are closer to Archie's range. There are a lot of variables as evidenced by Laura's costs. If you breed your own rats/rabbits costs will be lower. Also, depends on where you live as to how much you'll have to pay for rats/rabbits. I breed my own rats & some of the rabbits that I feed. When I need to buy rabbits I get them for $5 each. Just paid $100 for 22 of them a few weeks ago.

Hatchling/juvenile: $8 - $10
Adult: $25 - $40

Have a good one!
HH
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Rabbits are $12 a pop
Yearly permit $8 approx a monthly
Electricity was a $5 estimate
Yearly microchip service is negligible

I live in southeast Wisconsin so there are farms all over the place, so i could provide even quite large prey (pigs probably).

Also, I read from ProExotics that they use galvanized metal horse troughs for enclosures, I was going to get a ten foot diamteter one if and when i get a burm. Any questions comments or concerns on that?

>>I live in southeast Wisconsin so there are farms all over the place, so i could provide even quite large prey (pigs probably).
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>> Also, I read from ProExotics that they use galvanized metal horse troughs for enclosures, I was going to get a ten foot diamteter one if and when i get a burm. Any questions comments or concerns on that?

I know ProExotics uses troughs for lizard enclosures, but for Burms as well? My concerns would be 1) security of the lid 2)escaping heat from the lid and sides of the container 3) maintaining humidity.

I suppose you could use a trough if you wanted to. Like Laura said, I know Pro Exotics uses them for monitors but I don't know if they use them for snakes or not.

Making the top secure & to hold in humidity shouldn't be too hard by securing the top's frame to the sides of the trough and a good key latch system.

Personally, I wouldn't use a trough. The internal temps will be greatly affected by the surrounding temps due to nothing but a thin piece of metal to buffer it. Not enough substance to hold in heat and vice-versa.

Plus, for an adult Burmese Python, it would need to be at least 3ft wide, in my opinion.

As for pigs for feeders - Nothing against some that use them, but I think it's blown way out of proportion. It's more of a "He man!" image for a lot of people. Such as: "My snake is so big I feed it pigs!"

Pigs have 15% more fat and 20% less protein than rabbits.

Later!
HH
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Due to political correctness run amuck,
this ol' hillbilly is now referred to as an:
Appalachian American

www.natures-signature.com

I've seen it done for snakes before (not at PE) and done well...but it seemed like a lot of work. The one I saw they'd built like a little wooden box around it, I guess to help with insulation, and put a plexiglass lid on it, and radiant heat panels mounted to heat the cage. It was on one of the big round tanks, not a rectangular one. They just kinda climbed in to do maintence...looked sort of awkward but it was a really neat setup.