Restless BP that don't seem to like the optimum temps

Just a suggestion for your hides, some things I use are bowls with the holes melted out of the side, or another is the dark plastic meat trays walmart now puts its meat in. They have all different sizes. And I just melt my hole in the side .

Kitty litter pans flipped upside down with holes cut out work well and are cheap:) Or you could try some bigger salad bowls from walmart. Get creative, check out the dollar store;) I found these adorable green clay pots and chipped out a hole in each, and they look great! Hey, thats another thing you could try, plastic pots for plants.

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Originally Posted by Deborah

Your BP need belly heat for it's overall health and to help facilitate digestion.

Put the UTH back in and remove the heat lamp, the heat lamp is not an efficient way to provide your snake with the heat it requires.

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I totally agree with the belly heat issue but I wouldn't ditch my lamp in a million years, simply because without it ambient drops to 70....with it 77 cool, 82 warm (ambient that is) but it does require more humidity maintenance. But it all depends on the situation I would say when it comes to lamps. Lamps alone mind you, are not enough to provide the right temps.

I just read the post in the breeding forum of the latest case of parthenogenesis, if you remember I had the same thing happen to me last year with a sad outcome. Well, I thought that maybe well...hopefully it is getting ready to happen again & that could be why she is so restless. Can anyone tell me how long it takes for eggs to develop or how the process goes once a female is fertilized?

I found and bought 2 big super jethro bowls that Mila will fit nicely in...waiting for my hubby to dremel holes in the top for me!! Dollar store a buck fifty a piece.

I'm willing to bet that the floor is much warmer than the air temps you're measuring. Turn down the belly heat until she's comfortable. I really recommend an infrared thingy. The prices have come down quite a bit and they really are the best way to measure what your snake is feeling on the floor and in the hides.

Does Petco carry them? I can put the probe on top of the floor under the substrate to measure the temps. But I wouldn't mind getting an infared thingy. LOL @ thingy.

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Originally Posted by fishmommy

I'm willing to bet that the floor is much warmer than the air temps you're measuring. Turn down the belly heat until she's comfortable. I really recommend an infrared thingy. The prices have come down quite a bit and they really are the best way to measure what your snake is feeling on the floor and in the hides.

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Agreed, make sure you know what the belly heat (UTH) is inside the enclosure under the warm hide preferably, using a probe. If your measurement of this temp is off, it may be warmer than you think. Sorry I can't recall if you said you had measured this temperature directly. Infrared heat sensors start at $25 (proexotics) and you can buy them on ebay or right from a few reptile sites. These sensors can help you find hot spots, or really any surface temperature in your enclosure:)

Uh-Huh....e-bay, now why didn't I think of that!! Thanks!!

Here's the one that I have... The size of a pen and works great, plus pretty cheap, $25 plus shipping.
http://www.reptilebasics.com/RBI-201-p-16245.html