Getting Started

Yeah! What they said!

No really, Flexwatt wired properly is perfectly safe and fairly inexpensive. Matt does it better than most (the Flexwatt that is). :)

It definitely needs a Rheostat or preferably a Thermostat as Flexwatt can hit 115 degrees or more and cause thermal burns on the poor little guy/girl.

Good luck!

Jamie

Oh heck, no thanks needed Sheree! I'm just pleased as all get out that you got with Jamie and have decided on that lovely male. I just know you'll be very pleased with him and I know Jamie has him well started for you (that's always a major plus with purchasing young royals).


Have a word with Matt from mgreptiles as everyone has suggested. For a really reasonable sum he can wire your flexwatt up and fix everything up for you so it's basically plug and play with the pre-wired flexwatt and the tstat to control it. Matt's a super guy and doesn't mind all us "electrically challenged" people LOL. Heck I recently emailed him rack plans and a TON of questions and Matt actually still likes me LOL!

Can't wait to hear that Gomez is home with you two and enjoying his new digs. Pics though, we all love pics! LOL


~~Jo~~

Oh, there will be pics... of that you can be certain. ;) Poor Gomez will have to endure much camera love just like the rest of the babies. That's the price they pay for our spoiling them rotten, lol! Jaime said he's giving him an extra big meal tonight in celebration :giggle:

I just e-mailed Matt about the flexwatt, so we'll get that all figured out, tomorrow when I go erranding I'll be getting a good sized rubbermaid or similar and set to work on poking/burning holes in it. The thermostat for the flexwatt is already paid for. :)

We don't have an electric drill or anything, but when I set up Falkor's eating space we used a small plastic tub and put holes in it with the hot end of our glue gun sans glue. If you're careful, you get real nice little holes with no rough edges, so I figure we'll do that again. That tub is definantly too small for Gomez to live in, but till he gets too big that'll probably be his feeding space too. I like the idea of ritual so they get used to it and know what to expect when it comes to feeding time.

Amusingly enough, since Falkor's feed day is Sunday and we'd like for them to be on different feeding schedules so that they aren't digesting/unhandleable at the same time... Gomez's feed day will probably be Wednesday. Completely undeliberate joke there, heh. :nerd: As an explaination to our name choice, we were contemplating one night as to what would be cute BP names. I mentioned Gomez because what better name for a little charmer that coils up your arm giving it butterfly kisses? Karen died, we both loved it and are Addams Family fans anywho, so it stuck. /(^v^)\ He almost got named Picard. I told my sister about that and after I explained the difference between BPs and giant pythons and she calmed down she chided me for naming him before we got him. But I reminded her she has names picked out for when she has children, what's the difference? "Oh... good point." lol.

So... we got a water dish, substrate, heating supplies coming, tub tomorrow... even already have a little decor for him...

Ah! Here's a question! Is it true that if the tub is semi-transparent, he doesn't need a hide? I read that somewhere, but I know they're shy fellas and don't want to stress him. Hides are pretty easy to come by, and I can probably even just make him one, but I was curious to know if that was true about using a plastic enclosure.

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Oh, there will be pics... of that you can be certain. ;) Poor Gomez will have to endure much camera love just like the rest of the babies. That's the price they pay for our spoiling them rotten, lol! Jaime said he's giving him an extra big meal tonight in celebration :giggle:

I just e-mailed Matt about the flexwatt, so we'll get that all figured out, tomorrow when I go erranding I'll be getting a good sized rubbermaid or similar and set to work on poking/burning holes in it. The thermostat for the flexwatt is already paid for. :)

We don't have an electric drill or anything, but when I set up Falkor's eating space we used a small plastic tub and put holes in it with the hot end of our glue gun sans glue. If you're careful, you get real nice little holes with no rough edges, so I figure we'll do that again. That tub is definantly too small for Gomez to live in, but till he gets too big that'll probably be his feeding space too. I like the idea of ritual so they get used to it and know what to expect when it comes to feeding time.

Amusingly enough, since Falkor's feed day is Sunday and we'd like for them to be on different feeding schedules so that they aren't digesting/unhandleable at the same time... Gomez's feed day will probably be Wednesday. Completely undeliberate joke there, heh. :nerd: As an explaination to our name choice, we were contemplating one night as to what would be cute BP names. I mentioned Gomez because what better name for a little charmer that coils up your arm giving it butterfly kisses? Karen died, we both loved it and are Addams Family fans anywho, so it stuck. /(^v^)\ He almost got named Picard. I told my sister about that and after I explained the difference between BPs and giant pythons and she calmed down she chided me for naming him before we got him. But I reminded her she has names picked out for when she has children, what's the difference? "Oh... good point." lol.

So... we got a water dish, substrate, heating supplies coming, tub tomorrow... even already have a little decor for him...

Ah! Here's a question! Is it true that if the tub is semi-transparent, he doesn't need a hide? I read that somewhere, but I know they're shy fellas and don't want to stress him. Hides are pretty easy to come by, and I can probably even just make him one, but I was curious to know if that was true about using a plastic enclosure.

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Hey there! You should go ahead and get him a couple of hides. One for the warm side and one for the cool. Even though the tub is semi transparent, it still lets in light. Ball Pythons like to feel secure and a small hide that they can touch all sides of when curled up will be best. You dont have to get elaborate. Cereal boxes or the like will be just fine!

Will do, thanks Jamie, we're on cloud 9 over here! :D

I think we've got everything we need either here or on it's way here in the mail now except for the Flexwatt and fuzzy rats. We're pullin it together!

As far as the fuzzies, that is what they were eating a couple months ago when the I added them to the page. I lost a bunch of frozen rats during the last hurricane and have had trouble finding suitable sized ones around here so they have been eating mice for the past few feedings. Adult mice to be exact. They seem to be having no problems with them.

Okay, cool! Those shall be easier to find locally I think till we can do an order from Big Cheese or somebody. :)

Sounds good. I have heard great things about Big Cheese. I have been ordering from Rodent Pro but haven't been thrilled with the quality recently.

They're who Don at SMR recommended to us with our first snake, so all Falkor's first mini-pinkies were from there. :) Good stuff.