*Q* About new BP housing!

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Originally Posted by alexrls

you mentioned that on the hide you Glued lfake leaves to it
i dont know if thats safe
ask a moderator

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It's probably safe enough if it doesn't have toxic fumes and dried fully, but it will definitely make cleaning more difficult.

its from a hot glue gun. so there isn't any smell or anything, and it dried automatically. I was recommended to do this with my leopard geckos hides, so I figured it would be OK to do it with a BP.


I just need the snake and the water bowl, it turns out he didn't get the money yet, so it will probably be wednessday when i get him.

Heat lamp + aquarium setup = dehydration. Just stick with the heat pad, or if you must use that heat lamp, make sure that your top keeps humidity in i.e. not screen, or if it is screen cover it with something like plexiglass.

I used an aquarium and a heat lamp for my female bp who is not 11 months old and over 3 ft long. Its just more of a pain to keep humidity in the tank, i fixed that by covering the screen lid with plastic.

And my .02 on heat pads: They don't raise the air temp in the cage. Thats bad if your house gets cold in the wintertime, as in 70 or below. Sure, a floor temp of 93 is good but not when the air temp on the cool side is 68 degrees or so. Your snake is gonna slow down a lot under these conditions. Secondly, heat pads are notorious for generating hot spots on the pad. It may not be enough to burn the snake, but more than enough to cook urates and stools before they are passed, while still inside the digestive tract. A young BP was brought into the shop I work at. It was not eating and its tail what completely limp. It had some urates impacted on the latter part of its digestive tract. We basically squeezed the urates out, and they were hard as rocks. What do you know, they used nothing but a Zoomed heat pad to heat the tank. I've just seen too many malfunction to recommend using one as a sole heat source. They're good for supplemental heating but thats as far as I'd go with it.