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Can you post some picts of your set up enclosures. how do you keep humidity for them on newspaper. I am wanting to make my set up less dirty and moldy. I have had some problems with this in the past. If you could just take a few picts of the whole set up, so I know what I am going for.

I am using Newsprint in these cages will 2 hides (new oil pans) that have sphagnum moss in both. I sarted doing this several months ago to try and save a bit of time on cleaning. The cypress mulch kept "jumping" out of the dustpans when I changed it weekly. I still use mulch in about 1/2 of my set ups, but this newsprint thing is becoming more to my liking. Although the mulch was messy, the snakes liked it and I haven't yet had any mildew problems.

This snake IS starved.....she had 14 big babies after being gravid for 6 1/2 months. She converted to f/t on the day after giving birth on the first attempt. Her hide was removed so you could see the moss pile.

she's just wasting away.

She's probably blue like that because you are either keeping her freezing or not letting her have any oxygen.

Which is it??

You mean old "guy"

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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12.136 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (OK, I'm only keeping a few of the 136, just tickled pink with my production this year)
1.1 Ball python
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

WHat do you use for heating those enclosures, lights, pads or tape?

/>>WHat do you use for heating those enclosures, lights, pads or tape?

...I have one rack of ten 24 inch plastic boxes and one rack of five 36 inch boxes. Both of these racks are made of heavy melamine. They have a very tight fit and there is very little airspace around the top of the boxes. I have small holes drilled in the boxes to provide a small amount of ventilation. The very limited ventilation is key to keeping humidity inside these boxes. I keep Rainbow Boas that are less than 4 and a half feet long in these boxes.

This first PIC is the rack of 24 inch boxes.

I usually use newspaper substrate in these boxes. When I have a new litter of babies I put bunches of them in these boxes on papertowel substrate. As I get them sexed and sorted out I move them into individual smaller plastic boxes. The water bowl is a big part of keeping these boxes humid. I usually spill a little water from the bowl on the substrate whenever I open the cage. A couple ounces of water spilled on the substrate supplies more humidity than several minutes of manually squeezing a mister. When I open one of these boxes this is what I often see. The snakes hide between the layers of newspaper.

When I go into cages with a camera I have to shoot a PIC of the cage inhabitant

This is the rack of 36 inch boxes.

Open the drawer and sure enough the snake is hiding between the layers of newspaper. I even provided her a special piece of PVC to hide in. Oh well.

There is a snake in there. I pulled her out for PICs.

And a closeup.

>>Can you post some picts of your set up enclosures. how do you keep humidity for them on newspaper. I am wanting to make my set up less dirty and moldy. I have had some problems with this in the past. If you could just take a few picts of the whole set up, so I know what I am going for.

I appreciate it and I a sure that my Brazilian will too>