Beginner's husbandry mistakes

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Originally Posted by bcr229

Relying on advice from a local big box pet store, where I was told:
- A mouse pinkie is an adequate meal for a 100 gram BP
- All snakes have mites (well the ones in your store do!)
- You don't need a thermostat for a UTH because the snake will move if it gets too hot
- Tanks are fine for ball pythons
- The half-log wooden hidee for ball pythons
- Analog thermometers and hygrometers are plenty accurate
- Ball pythons can co-habitate just fine

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Whats wrong with them, I use to half log hides and he uses them all the time, there are other hides too but he choses the half logs, I use a Terapod vivarium designed for reptiles which is a 'tank' and it works fine for me, he uses all the space and even climbs up the vines at night and analog hydrometers made by zoo-med are fine, I use one and well according when my snake sheds well, its completely right

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Originally Posted by Badgemash

Part of me says A for effort, because you clearly really wanted a snake. The other part of me is thinking, well you know...:O

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Yeah that was many years ago and I was always trying to catch critters when I was a kid. Now its like "What was I thinking?". Did I know it is venomous, most likely. For husbandry mistakes, that one would really be my big first screw up. A little later down the road when I wanted a critter, Mom and Dad would make me have a way to support it (like working on a farm, or mowing grass for people, etc.) and learn everything about that specific specie of animal I can, before i can get it.

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Originally Posted by SnakeDoctor

Whats wrong with them, I use to half log hides and he uses them all the time, there are other hides too but he choses the half logs, I use a Terapod vivarium designed for reptiles which is a 'tank' and it works fine for me, he uses all the space and even climbs up the vines at night and analog hydrometers made by zoo-med are fine, I use one and well according when my snake sheds well, its completely right

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Tank = fish tank with screen top
Every one of my half-log hides eventually molded, I burned them in the wood stove.

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Originally Posted by winglesshornet

When I was 12, I caught a copperhead (I named Gary), sneaked it into my room and hid it in a plastic tub and stuck it in the closet.

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Filed under "seemed like a good idea at the time."

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