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i returned home yesterday afternoon to find my cats staring into a closet, apparently fascinated by something. i moved some stuff around real quick but found nothing. the one cat left satisfied there was nothing to see but one remained and continued his unblinking vigil. after about a 1/2 hour of this, i decided i had to investigate further. rummaging more deeply this time, i finally saw what appeared to be a yellow belt sticking out from a back corner. remnant of the disco era? nah, it was psycho-babe!! turns out she had ripped the lamp right out of the side of her tank! it had been screwed in top and bottom but she must have gotten behind it and pushed it clear out unplugging it at the same time. she allowed me to take her away w/out getting too unpleasant and i didn't even get bit......on an interesting side note, the temp in that particular cage dropped to 76* causing her roomate [another female] to regurgitate. question: does anyone keep their yt's warmer than their other dry's? i have been after noticing a couple years ago that they would go off feed if their temps dropped below 80* in there. this is a marked difference from my unicolors which will become visibly uncomfortable at 80* and start ramming around. i'd be interested in your thoughts.......

at same ambient temps..To raise an individuals' temp I'll use a heat pad...For like, maybe a prolonged hunger strike, just to see if it makes a difference...
It would seem to make sense intuitively that YT's would do better under higher temps..But I'm just a rookie with them...CG
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Carl W Gossett
Garage Door Herps
Monument,Colorado...northern territory of the Great Republic of Texas

Glad to hear PB is back in her cage. If she'd had gotten loose, entire Philly suburbs would have been evacuated for thier own safety.

I had a female indigo escape a year or two ago. She crawled into a room that had a heating pad on the floor with several baby indigos in individual mini-cages were placed partially on top of for heat. She pushed all the cages off the heat mat, warmed herself up, then crawled into our book shelves into the photo album shelf. Apparently, seeing pictures of our 1998 trip to Belize was a big deal for her.

I'm not much help as far as temps for yt's go. Mine are too small to figure much into the equation. For what it's worth, I keep my yt's, mussuranas and young bredli at 80 dth, 70 ntl.

Time for a welded Stainless Steel cage for PB.

Doug T

Good 2-C you postn DT
Me too...been way to busy lately...but I did manage a trip down to the lair of rubidus (= D.c. mexicana...)...no cribonegros...& probably a good thing 4-me...as customs took a 2x look at us this trip , I brought my digital & alas have only good habitat shots & great memories! It was hard to accept working along perfect drainages & upland terraces [near P. Vallarta] that I couldnt collide w/ any snake! Just Ctenosaurus & Urosaurus for herps????
Great buncha posts lately... Chrish/Oldherper/"the core" [yeah... bob-yt, dry-tex, DA,.... this includes you!] & et al... Nice 2-c the troll[s] has been hunting elsewhere, (or taking his meds as prescribed!).
I think Im pissed no one has offered me [n mojo] a texican neonate...what daya hafta do...cyberbeg?
Does anyone have a tally for the vartious guardians & #s produced this year?
I suggest all you breeders deserve a gr8t round of applause for taking care of much of the demand for one more year. I couldnt imagine trying to live my life & keep more than 2 or 3 of these legless monitors.
A parting factoid...Mojo consumed a large DoR coachwhip last fri being hugely stuffed from throat to rear stomach, the meal is 7 days l8tr; completely processed & the feces have been minimal on 3 days as compared to an equiv. 400 grams of rat???

Cheers, jg