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I was talking with a friend of mine today about the earlier post and how my green will swim around in ice water if you let her. He said he has taken in a greens with a RIs before but usually obtained health problems like this because of low humidity problems and not cool temps.

Jud and I have raised all of our greens in relatively low humidity as far as tropicals go (probably avg. around 65%), with no respiratory problems whatsoever. This is not to say that a humidity as low as 50% wouldn't be a problem however. If you have an internal cage heat source, you can easily lower the humidity down to 50% if you are not careful, and I would then agree with your friend that this could be a problem. I feel that if it is maintained at least above 60%, there shouldn't be a concern. I think that with greens, stress is more of an issue with health problems than anything else. If I were to guess, I would assume that your friend was working with wild caught imports which are obviously going to be under a large degree of stress and therefore more susceptible to RI. The additional condition of a very low humidity would definitely add to the stress of a wild caught snake. I would be curious as to the source (cb or wc) of these snakes, and how long they were in captivity before they showed symptoms of RI. Thanks,

Kelly

Gavin you misunderstood me I didn't take them in myself. It was at a pet store I used to frequent and somebody had traded them in usually. I had never really thought about taking stress into account of the problem because I'm sure that plays a major role in it because they were wild caught. But like most pet stores they no clue on its husbandry so i really doubt the humidity was over 50%. Sorry for the long post

Sorry Blake. I wrote that that way to just say something without a long explaination. Sorry. I just wanted the thread to develope on what people thought as far as it actually occuring and humidity problems being the issue. Kelly raises anacondas without large water containers. Young greens from the wild are a roll of the dice as if they will survive and adult animals from the wild are almost a sure death. Sorry for not making it clear it was not you directly that took in the animals and it was a store. Funny I never asked if the were wc or cb when we were talking about that thread.. And for the rest of you reading..Blake rarely posts on KS so I will just mention in this post that symptoms were mild with RIs in green anacondas. I will also mention that I have never been to that pet store so I will not bash it in any way and I am sure if blake was working there the animals were in good hands. As for most stores that get in wc greens they will usually leave them in a tank with only some shallow water (as they believe since they are aquatic this is the way to do it) and rarely clean them since the temper of the animal leads nobody to want to wokr with it. I hear this being the chosen setup in many stores and just think of the problems that can occur that way.