Final? Tank Setup

why not real plants!

Snakes are pretty hard on real plants. They tend to get beat up fairly quickly (from what I've heard).

I use real plants, but only for my crested geckos.

Well, I lied:

I ordered an Animal Plastics T3 yesterday. Now that winter's here, it's becoming a huge waste trying to heat a glass tank with 1/16in thick glass! Talk about a bad insulator.

So here's the bill:

$145 -- AP T3 with swing doors, 2-8in. screen cut-outs
$45 -- Belly Heat
$15 -- Built in flourescent lighting
$15 -- 2 Locks
$28 -- Shipping
$00 -- Name Engraving

Total = $248

They said it would arrive in 4-5 weeks, so presumably January 6-13.

The Final setup will be the above T3 setup, plus a Spyder Robotics Herpstat (which i'm currently using and works great by the way), and the above pictured cerramic heater. The heater will be on the herpstat, the belly heat on a dimmer (a must), and the flourescent light will be on a 12hr on/off timer. And I won't be needing the humidifier i'm currently using with my new setup.

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Originally Posted by Deven

why not real plants!

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My bp loves to climb on the vines I have set up. If I used real plants, they would be crushed under his weight.

I was wondering where you got your humidifier, as I'm having some trouble with humidity.

Good ol Petco (those pet brutalizin bastards). It's just a TropicAire humidifer (by a company called imagine) hooked up to any standard aquarium air pump (I happen to be using a Profile 9500). I really don't use it very often, only during shed periods. My humidity chills around 55% on its own, and i'll bump it up to about 80% during sheds.

Epilover, you'll love your T3 when it arrives. Here's mine with sliding acrylic and belly heat w/locking front:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...d/f5ed3e91.jpg

I have a question about how you set up your humidifier. I am having a problem with humidity. I see that you are using a air pump but how it actually getting the mist in the tank, i can't really tell from the pic how you the hoses working. Did you run a tube from the air pump into the humidifier and then a tube from the humidifier running into the cage? Im sorry but this looks like a really good idea which gives you complete control over the humidity, which i definitly don't have right now. I have to result to misting all the time, and if the cage stays too wet she will wind up with scale rot.

Why not just give her a humid hide?? That is all my snake has had since she's been with me and her first shed was perfect and in one piece. There are many solutions to keeping humidity in the cage, but there is a difference between "humid" and "wet". A constantly wet, warm environment is a wonderful breeding ground for bacteria. Which is probably why your snake has scale rot. From being too wet.