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A friend of mine gave me a young venomoid (sp?) female. She is only about a foot long and I have her in a shoebox rack right now. Around 88F-90F on the heat tape. I have a half a pvc pipe hide, a cool whip container with some humid coconut husk and a water bowl. She once in a blue moon uses the hides. Have been feeding her every 4-5 days or so, always takes it after I leave the room. Anyway just look for some basic advice/care sheets. Oh I was told to try and keep them off paper because they can develope sores? Any truth to this? Thanks.

-Mike

WDB are pretty undemanding in my experience. Sounds like you have it under control, but perhaps you could have it a bit warmer on the heat side as long as the cool side is below 80. Paper substrate should not be a problem as long as it is very dry. I use calci-sand only because it looks cool with my dog skull and fake cactus decoration. It also helps when I whistle the theme song to "Good, Bad and the Ugly"!

Yes, don't forget the theme from the good, the bad & the ugly. Many western species thrive when regaled with this classic opus.