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RE: Question of concern for the Dry Family

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Posted by: tokaysrnice at Wed Jan 13 10:31:24 2010  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by tokaysrnice ]  
   

My first thought to cure your nose rub is adding more snug fitting hides, Those boxes you have in there are of little use to your snakes. I like to use plastic house gutters in my Dry enclosures and 90% of the time they hide in them, even if I think there's no way they can fit.

If more snug fitting hides fails to remedy the problem I would double check temps, ambient temps over 75 will cause Drymarchon to be very restless. I give very warm basking spots (90 ) but my ambient never gets over 75. My snakes only seem to cruise when they're hungry, thirsty or about to deuce.

As you know Dry's are very strong snakes, while rooting through the aspen if they come to a corner they will keep pushing on it. If you add decor that is similar to tunnels they feel like they don't need to root as much. IMO

I would also suggest adding some humid hide boxes, blacked out sweater boxes with 4" of Sphagnum moss works very well. I would think nice hydrated scales would be a lot less likely to be damaged than dried out ones.

Good luck, I hope we were able to help out,

Nate


   

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