Re: pet store (please read)
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Originally Posted by
speedy3
i use a uth on 1 side and a light on the other for basking the uth is hooked to a thromstate with that set up its easy to control hum.My bp burrows like crazy, the sub strate will be neat and flat at night when I get up in the morning it looks like any army of moles on crack were in their. In the wild bp hunt in burrows, I dont know if they hunt crack addicts in the wild though!
If you have heat on both ends, where's the cooler side? There needs to be a cool side for you snake to thermoregulate with, and considering BPs are naturally nocturnal, they don't really need to "bask", my BPs never have at least. That burrowing would actually concern me since it's not typical bp behavior....
Re: pet store (please read)
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Originally Posted by
Freaky_Ferret
If you have heat on both ends, where's the cooler side? There needs to be a cool side for you snake to thermoregulate with, and considering BPs are naturally nocturnal, they don't really need to "bask", my BPs never have at least.
That's probably why my BPs do fine at a constant temp, I keep them 80 to 84ish.
My boa, is quite another story. I'll find him anywhere from plastered against the heat pad (stuck on the outside of the tank) to airing out on his branch to soaking in his water dish... and only occasionally in his hidebox.
Re: pet store (please read)
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Originally Posted by
Freaky_Ferret
If you have heat on both ends, where's the cooler side? There needs to be a cool side for you snake to thermoregulate with, and considering BPs are naturally nocturnal, they don't really need to "bask", my BPs never have at least. That burrowing would actually concern me since it's not typical bp behavior....
Many people will use low wattage lamps on the cool side to keep the ambient air temperature above 75*.
Ball pythons don't burrow, but they will move substrate around (I see this happen a lot with aspen) to get closer to the heat source.
