I'm glad you enjoyed it:cool: but correcting you and sounding knowlegeable was hardly the purpose of my posting in this thread..... I only realy wanted to register some differing opinions based on my own observations of wild caught and ranched specimines in their native range.... as you say the captive norm is to be carefull of too much humidity or soaking..... I'm not so sure its such a problem... If the humid air is not stale, the water is changed regularily and temperatures are optimumQuote:
Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki
From what I have seen Humidity/soaking in ball pythons does not seem to be the cause of blister disease...... The cause must be something else... I say this because I have seen some housed in such humid conditions that mushrooms sprout in the substrate and I have also seen quite a few adults that pretty much soaked for a month or two continually... None of these developed blister disease or RI's.
I also got a batch of ranched babies that were not in good condition... some were dehydrated, some blistered others badly parisite loaded etc. I found that the best solution for them was in a reptile incubator at exactly the same temps as boid eggs and 100% humidity......Under thes conditions they did the best and a lot of those that wouldnt have made it survived... none of them developed blisters or RI's and those that did have blisters were clean after the following shed.
Once again not correcting you or blowing my own trumper but registering my own observations that seem to conflict with the generally accepted norm