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Just felt like throwing some pics up

Interesting set up. Very cool.

reako45

A few burrow pics

that's pretty interesting.

is that just a sandy soil that you're using for substrate?

how long does it take them to make the burrows?

i've only ever used aspen, bark, sani chips, and newspaper so i havent ever got to see anything like that.

Its a topsoil,play sand,decomposing leaf litter mix (about 50%/30%/20%). I mix the soil about every 3 weeks or so, so id assume they get to work on them pretty quickly. To be honest ive never caught them in the act.

time to set up an overnight camera.

I for one would love to see them make a burrow. It would be interesting to see if it's a joint effort, if each make their own, of if one snake makes them all.

Good objects for observation. That would be a great project to set up and observe. Are the snakes housed together?

reako45

They are housed together year round. I only separate them for feeding and i pull the male for a few weeks around laying time because she tends to get irritated by him very easily around then.

Very cool set of photos.

I've never used these basking stacks before... though I have of course heard of them. Do you use a heat lamp over these stacks to provide heat? Again I haven't looked into them that closely but it seems, from what I understand, that heat lamps and stacks go hand in hand?

Gerry

I use a lamp with a 40-60watt incandescent for heat and light. The top of the stack gets about 105f-110f but the snakes very rarely use it. They do use every other layer with some frequency. When they choose to use the top layer it seems to be to heat just their heads.