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RE: Calabar Burrowing Pythons?

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Posted by: KevinM at Wed Dec 2 20:35:55 2009  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by KevinM ]  
   

I have kept them with mixed results. My first was a pet shop snake I purchased that did awesome. The second pair was purchased off the internet and did horribly!! Their care is pretty straight forward. One can live comfortably in a 20 gallon long tank or a sweater box sized plastic box. They can be kept on cypress mulch and need a fairly large water bowl to keep humidity up in their cage. They burrow, so provide several inches of substrate. I am sure aspen would work too. A spray down to dampen one side of the cage never hurts every few days. The first one took f/t fuzzy mice like a kid eating Halloween candy. The second pair I got a few years later never fed for me. Many suggest live rat pinks to get them started. Apparently they have a preference for them over mice of similar size. They are very shy and can stress easily. The first one I had must have been acclimatized before I got it as it ate fine, and never seemed to mind handling that much or went off feed when handled. Very neat snakes IMO and as long as feeding consistently and well, arent really a problem to keep.


   

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