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  • 09-15-2006, 08:05 PM
    mr~python
    Re: What do you guys thik about housing a burm and a blood together?
    Daniel, bioactive dirt for your monitors? i dont think thats really a good idea.

    i dont know if you plan on keeping the feces in the cage but it should be removed regularly. i would just use dirt from nature with the natural bacteria to break down whatever may be left after you take the feces out.
  • 09-15-2006, 08:34 PM
    jason221
    Re: What do you guys thik about housing a burm and a blood together?
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by daniel1983
    Actually, ETBs and dart/reed frogs are great for multispecies systems (however, only one ETB per enclosure is ideal). Since ETBs are aboreal and dart frogs are terrestrial, both will not consider each other as a threat or food source, they originate from similar environments, and are great display animals....that makes them ideal to go together in an multispecies system.

    I did not know that...! lol I guess you learn something new every day.
  • 09-30-2006, 04:47 PM
    Mr. H
    Re: What do you guys thik about housing a burm and a blood together?
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by kurgan
    They have a lot of carefully set up multi species exhibits although none involving moe than one species of snake (actually for that matter snakes were always either alone in conspecific pairs) the burm/blood stood out as rather odd. This is abig zoo with an international reputation and a stronge concervation remit so I figured they ust know wosmehtign I didn't I may quietly email them and ask for comment.

    It's London Zoo, right? I was there recently, there was a small lizard in with 3 royals when I went and I wondered what the heck they were thinking. I'm not entirely convinced about them....
  • 10-01-2006, 01:58 PM
    Spaniard
    Re: What do you guys thik about housing a burm and a blood together?
    I went to see a small exibit at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Natural History, it was called LIVE reptiles something or another. But they did have some exibit cases with snakes being displayed together. I actually saw a green mamba and gaboon viper in the same exibit case. I was really confused as to why, seeing as how this is a major museum in New York. But I guess since the public is so uneducated on snakes there is no one to speak up against the improper husbandry.
  • 10-01-2006, 06:41 PM
    kurgan
    Re: What do you guys thik about housing a burm and a blood together?
    They had 2 royals both kept alone. Some of the venomous snakes liek the gaboons and the mambas were kept in pairs of the same species, otherwise the only snakes kept with anything were the burm and blood.
  • 10-02-2006, 10:38 AM
    Mr. H
    Re: What do you guys thik about housing a burm and a blood together?
    So it wasn't London Zoo? No offence to people that like them but Gaboon Vipers are ugly things, scarily ugly, like fresh out a nightmare. The royals, though kept together in about fours, looked nice and fat and healthy. They also had some legless lizards, at the time I didn't know there were such things as legless lizards and I was looking round the tank going, "Where the heck are the lizards?" I went mad at a group of girls that were going round and smacking at the glass on the tanks, when whatever was inside looked up they let it have a good long flurry of flash photography. I asked them, "How would you like it if you were in bed and trying to sleep and a crowd of people started banging on your window and taking flash pictures that made your eyes go funny? It's like that for a snake but much worse because they don't know anything about what's going on" I'm glad to say I didn't see them doing anything to disturb the animals after that.
  • 10-02-2006, 07:13 PM
    kurgan
    Re: What do you guys thik about housing a burm and a blood together?
    No it is London Zoo. I hadn't been for years so I don't know how things used to be. These days they have 2 (very pretty) Royals but both are kept on their own.

    Each to their own - The Gaboon vipers are beautiful to my eyes, kind of like a cross between Moth and Snake :)
  • 10-02-2006, 08:22 PM
    Spaniard
    Re: What do you guys thik about housing a burm and a blood together?
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by kurgan
    Each to their own - The Gaboon vipers are beautiful to my eyes, kind of like a cross between Moth and Snake :)

    I agree, when I saw the Gaboon in person I was captivated by its pattern.
  • 10-12-2006, 05:47 PM
    stridm
    Re: What do you guys thik about housing a burm and a blood together?
    Today when I was looking at the local snakes in the New England area, I saw an article saying the Timber Rattlesnake can be found in den with other snakes. Here is the site for a decent read.

    http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/d...ec/tirafs.html
  • 10-14-2006, 04:46 AM
    sweety314
    Re: What do you guys thik about housing a burm and a blood together?
    The bundles of snakes (like the rattler) is usu. during the winter months as a sort of hibernation den so that they conserve the little bit of body heat and share the burrow warmth. Once the weather warms up enough, they're solitary animals.

    One snake, one cage unless you're breeding a pair. (not personally, mind you) :rolleye2:

    :8:

    Anything else is just asking for trouble.
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