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Here's my '02 gal doing something I have only witnessed once before since I have had her...drinking water!
Maybe I'm just never around when she's thirsty, but thought I would share.

She is pictured living it up in her new 30 gallon long tank with thin layer of cypress mulch, cork hide, half log hide and rock water bowl. I would love to put her on sand in a desert habitat, but I fear her rostral pits (?) would get clogged like they do on Heterodon kept on it.

I had her in a large sweater box with heat tape underneath 24 hours a day. Now she has a 75 watt light with a dome to give her a hot spot 12 hours a day. I feel this is much more naturalistic.

A.C.

I've only seen my big male drinking a couple times & have never seen my 01' juvenilles do it at all...........

Weird isn't it??? Maybe it's some natural instinct that makes them vulnerable to raptors or carnivorus mammals in the wild if they actually come out in public to drink @ a stream or something where they could be an easy target.

Just my theory.........

Cheers
Dean

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