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lotabob
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 10/09/2011 : 15:48:01
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As above if the mat is in the vivarium it MUST have a thermostat controlling the max temperature. That is your number 1 priority, its still warm enough this time of year to be able to switch the mat off until you have a stat and as long as you dont feed the snake it will be fine for a few days. While your buying stuff get a couple of good quality digital thermometers, the ones with probes are perfect, one needs to be attached to the heat mat with the probe for the stat so you can accurately set the stat to the desired temperature.
Also in your picture it appears quite bright in the vivarium so I can assume there is a light of some sort in there, if it is a glass bulb of any sort it needs to be guarded. As well as that unless its LED's or an energy saving bulb it will be generating heat so that needs to be switched off too, if the bulb is exposed, take it out until you have a suitable guard, snakes can break bulbs just holding onto them, picking glass out of your snake will not be a fun experience for anyone.
And the food bit, 1-2 prey items every 5 days is the absolute most you should be feeding your snake. You say that your snake is the length of your arm. A snake of that length (estimating about 2 feet) can easily take fuzzies, small mice and very likely mediums mice too. Don't worry that their head looks too small to eat, they are designed to eat prey items much larger than their head. The guide for how big a mouse can be for your snake is have a look at your snakes body, about half way down will be your snakes thickest point, your snake can eat mice 1.5 times the size of that thickest point. Their jaws can open very wide and their throat is very stretchy, I have kept snakes for a year now and it still amazes me how they eat. Have a look through the pictures section there will be loads of pictures showing snakes eating just to get an idea and put aside any worries that something is too big for your snake. |
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eeji
The Morph Master
United Kingdom
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Sta~ple
qeeun speler
United Kingdom
6129 Posts |
Posted - 10/09/2011 : 17:40:37
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Originally posted by kerry84
yea thats what i thought but he eats them all, i went shop and look at the fluffs they look way too big for him hes about the lenght of my arm hand to elbow. so ud say just feed him x2 pinkies a week?.
Shops will say anything. 2 pinkies a week is enough till then :) Pick out the smallest fluffs from the shop, it is amazing how big of an item snakes can eat! 4 pinkies is like the equlient to 2 fluffs anyway so he should easily be able to manage 1 fluff, probably wolf it down and wnat something bigger.
You need a digital therometer, you can gets some cheap off ebay. Myself and others use these, tehy are great as you can get an elesatsic band to band the probe for the theormeter and stat together and then use the suction cup to lick and stick onto the ehatmat to keep it in place.http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Digital-LCD-Fish-Aquarium-Water-Terrarium-Thermometer-/320669697113?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Fish&hash=item4aa9674459
NO the sta does not have to match the w of the mat, that stat is fine. |
   
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kerry84
Egg
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11/09/2011 : 01:26:40
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| ok thanks in answer to the bulb that was what my old viv looked like when i got it i have a single led strip light now as i didnt want the whole snake burning him self and the cage takes up too much room |
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kerry84
Egg
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11/09/2011 : 01:31:45
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| cool thanks for your help if im stuck with any thing else do you mind if i contact you ? |
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kerry84
Egg
United Kingdom
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Mort13
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
5599 Posts |
Posted - 12/09/2011 : 18:49:39
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| I'd recommend placing some towel or a flat plate of some kind down when you feed him,or alternatively placing him in a seperate tub for feeding as he may end up ingesting the substrate otherwise. |
      
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lotabob
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
4334 Posts |
Posted - 13/09/2011 : 18:35:29
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| Ahhh he's not as big as I thought, he's only a diddy snake probably not much longer than a foot. 2 Pinkies every 5 or 7 days (you choose, not much in it at that size) will be fine until you've used them all up then move up to fuzzies, just 1 to start with every 7 days. |
Anery Corn snake SPOT. Royal Python, DUKE. Hogg Island Boa, SANKE. Albino House Snake, HAL.
Harlequin Crested Gecko HARLEY
Albino Horned Frog WAKA
Chilean Rose Tarantula TRIXIE. Brazilian Salmon Pink Bird-eating Tarantula SAM. Orange Baboon Tarantula BORIS.
Giant Asian Forest Scorpion, SALLY.
Giant African Land Snails, SHELDON & MICHELLE.
Budwing Mantis, MAIA
Dubia Roach Colony. Silkworm Colony. Mealworm Colony. Waxworm Colony. Fruit Beetle Colony.
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