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im looking for temps and cage set ups fore hachling Naja kaouthia i i have recieved some babys and thay dont seem to be doing well in the standerd set ps i have, which is 10 gal glass tanks with screen locking lids, zoo med heat mats that cover half the tank temp set at 90 with rhiostat, i have moss and fake ivy for them to hide in and a waterbowl on the cool end, thay eat but not regular, how often should thay eat in some of your opions i had one go 7 days and die last week (killed me) i dont want to lose any others any help would be great. the other 2 are eating 2 pinks every 4 days and still look thin, thay are CB.
thanks for any help pics of tanks would be great.
cd

Hi,
First thing you want to do is get em in rubbermaids, housed individuly (you didnt mention if they were together or not but if so, seperate them!!). Just use newspaper, a water bowl and of cource a hide. They seem to do much better in these conditions and I personaly thinks it makes them feell much more secure(they are very open in a 10 gallon glass tank, if thats what your useing). Secondly, place their temps at about 83-86 with a drop to the high 70s at night. Thirdly, try very small fuzzies or peach fuzzies. The hair seems to help in getting little cobras to want to eat. My guess is there is more sent then that on the naked skin of a pink. Lastly, if some are eating pinks well yet still look thin try uping their feed schedual to once every 3 days untill they have satisfactory weight on them.

Oh yeah, if some wont take mice voluntarily, try senting with frog. Frog sent is usualy a very good sent to try and trick the little buggers into feeding with and I have had great sucsess with this method numerous times. If they dont take even sented food your going to have to assist or force feed them. Being a hot herper, I trust and hope you know how top do so. If not, find somone who does!! You can really hurt them if you do it wrong!

Welp, best of luck with them and let me know if you need more assistance. If you dont know a herper in your area to help (if you dont know how to force feed) let me know were you are and Ill see what I can do about locateing someone for ya.

Later,
Jeremy

Thanks.. i had to drive for 4 hours to get then, the breeder put 4 in a single carrier with schreded news paper to hide in, you couldent see them at all thay burried down in, i got home 3 hrs of a drive to open the top and i pulled oyt the news paper with 21" hemostats piece at a time to my shock one had died on the trip..even worse he died eating his brother who was half down his mouth... so now im down to 2 and will do anything to keep ths investment sound, i have force feed venomous(not baby elapids)but vipers.
thay seem very touchy to being stressed, i hope all will work out, i have several adult cobras (10) but not babys i figured this would be a fun venture, but now its a pain in the @$$...lol not to mention a wife who thinks im burning cash...lol
any and all help is awsome, thanks for your info, i got the 2 i have left to eat 2 pinks each today should i still move them to rubermaids?

thanks very much
cd

Definitely move them to their own individual Rubbermaid containers. Nothing too big though.
Shoe box size if they are babies and increase the size of the boxes until they are about 2 or 2 1/2 feet long and taking hopper and small to medium mice. Sill provide a hide in each box.
They seem to do better if the cage or box if it's not over whelmingly large in comparison to the snake being kept in it.
After they get some size to them I'd move them to a Vision, Neo, or other secure, lockable cage. Nice snakes by the way!
Good luck.

thanks for all your help, i just got them some rubbremaids today, and will be seting them up tonight, thanks for everyones help... i hope all go's well for these little guys i love them... i also moved ther feeding scedual to every 3 days as previously sugested.
any other info on tempa cages and care would be great, im trying to learn as much as possible.