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Always a treat when your on your way down the cellar to do chores, laundry etc. and see a nice looker out "Displaying". This is my least nice looking Pyro even. Must be the winter blues. Lots of snow just out the window.

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Wow Bob!,.......looks as though the snake was sitting there expecting you to do a "model shoot"

Great lookin' snake and setup!

~Doug
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Nice pyro and a great looking set up Bob!
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Randy Whittington

Herp photographers would toil for an hour trying to get a snake to pose perfectly like that. That pyro loves the camera.

What kind of bulb is that? If you have a CHE, try one. Kings love the CHE.

For a milk, I put a shoebox (no lid) filled with damp moss directly below a CHE. The snake sometimes hides in the moss with part of its body exposed on top under the heater. If you feel the moss, the first 2 inches or so is warm, and the temp goes down from there.

Be aware, the temperature under a CHE is misleading. A snake can warm up even when the air temp in the cage is cold. Kind of like a sunny but cool Spring day - rocks and dirt can be warm even if the air is very cool.
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Mark

It's just a CFL, no heat.Ultratherm underm a portion of the cork flat. Never used a CHE. Don't know much about them other than reading posts.safe to use in a Vision shroud? I'll PM you Mark for more. Always keep an eye out for your experiments LOl I use I small bowl of water in the hides with restricted airspace to elevate humidty withut wet. For me it's easier than moss, just careful with spills.

Thanks. Well you are definitely good. Thought that was a heat bulb. No need for a CHE.

My poor snakes - always getting experimented on.

Here is piece of info for you -

I took an adult female Nelsons and put her in a cage, CHE on one end. No moss, newspaper substrate. She stays on the cool end. Using a non-contact thermometer, I see temps (on her body) ranging from 49 deg to 65 deg depending on time of day. Clearly avoids the heat. She will not feed after a few weeks of trying.

Then I drop the box of moss in the cage, spanning heat and cool. After one day, she starts basking under the CHE in the moss and is now ravenous.

It was the moisture which triggered her interest in food, because the heat was always there. Of course, it is Spring now, could be that too. But I think the elevated humidity is also a trigger.
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Mark

Bob, you said that this is your least-nice looking pyro? Bob, that thing is smoking!! What a gorgeous example and perfect specimen, IMO.

He has an awesome setup!! You can tell he is happy. Great work my friend!!
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