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This is my new imitation rock that I made to fit into the back of one of my aquariums and it has tunnels that connect from both sides as well as up and down to get some different type of movement going.
I will be housing two female zonata parvirubra in this and just introduce my male to it every spring during breeding.

Thanks Arkanis for the idea.

Hey looks good! nice job

This is very clever! I bet they will love it. But if you need to get the snakes out of it would it be hard to get them out of the tunnels?
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Because they idea is based around that sense of security that mountain kings like pyros and zonatas especially need, it makes it harder for you to access them sometimes. But I figured that at some point I am bound to catch them out and about and can grab them at that point.... right??

I will have to observe closely and get an idea of activity patterns for a while so I can decide when to feed and what not.

You can have all the fun of herping in the wild right in your own living room! LOL! Waiting for that wild snake to come out of that rock crevice...
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

I know they can stay down in tunnels for a looooonnnnngggg time, because one of my other rock type walls that I made had caverns and one of my female pyros went in and did not come out for over two months...

Also a few years ago we found a nasty looking zonata up in the angeles national forest with a weird looking scale problem and it had a tip of its tail missing with a small kink. Over 2 years later (last year) I turned a small piece of pine bark not more than 6 or 7 feet from the same rock pile and found what appears to be the same zonata with same defects. Now that area is completely burned and closed off due to some arsonists that decided to burn the forest that did nothing to hurt him.