Temp. Graidiante, why have it?

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Originally Posted by bigballs

with my snakes i have noticed that the nervous ones would come out more when they feel more secure. usually i keep handling to a minimum with these snakes and keep them away from traffic heavy areas. i also add a background to three sides of the enclosure to help with security. after keeping this up for months they become less shy. it works for me. maybe try it out.

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will grab a background while im out after work, i would of thought handling more would of helpped. thanks for the heads up!

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Originally Posted by sw204me

There no edit button on post? I called my buddy who owns the pet store that gave me the snake and he said its about 6 months old.

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You may edit your posts for up to 30 minutes, I believe, and then the edit feature is gone.

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Originally Posted by elevatethis

Considering that ball pythons are a terrestrial species...all my logic and reasoning would actually lead me to infer that the exact opposite is true. Why would an animal that doesn't bask out in the open and feels its way around tight burrows be more sensitive on the part of their body that contacts the ground the least?

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Pythons of the World Vol II: Ball Pythons by Barker & Barker, pp. 25-26:

As long as it is possible for the snake to move to a cooler area, we have never observed a ball python to allow itself to be burned on its dorsal surface from a radiant heat source that is too hot; however, over the years we have seen a number of ball pythons with severly burned ventral surfaces, caused by the snakes' voluntarily sitting too long on electrically warmed surfaces such as substrate heaters, under-cage-heating pads, or heated fake rocks. From this we deduce that ball pythons have less ability to detect and determine critical temperatures on their undersides than on their upper sides.

Ok, I just misted his tank and humidity shot up to 58% and just as it happen he poked his head out of his hide and started to look around, climbed on a log, sniffed around, then went back in his hide......anyone wanna translate what that means?

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Originally Posted by sw204me

Ok, I just misted his tank and humidity shot up to 58% and just as it happen he poked his head out of his hide and started to look around, climbed on a log, sniffed around, then went back in his hide......anyone wanna translate what that means?

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They have a brain the size of a sunflower seed probably, I doubt there is a rhyme and reason to everything that they do

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Originally Posted by Snikt228

They have a brain the size of a sunflower seed probably, I doubt there is a rhyme and reason to everything that they do

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damnit, my pet's brain is bigger them mine.....new I should of gone with a parakeet.

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Originally Posted by sw204me

Ok, I just misted his tank and humidity shot up to 58% and just as it happen he poked his head out of his hide and started to look around, climbed on a log, sniffed around, then went back in his hide......anyone wanna translate what that means?

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Translation - I would rather stay in my cozy hide than out in the open where I'm being over-stimulated by all these changes to my home.

Don't try to analyze his every move. It's been said before but I'll say it again - the more you leave him alone for the first few weeks the better. Get the cage parameters right and let him settle in.

I have a couple pairs of pythons and each snake will utilize his environment differently. Our female maculosa will spend all day on a branch halfway between thermal gradients. The male will simply move from one hide to the other.

Right now hes currently sitting in his water bowl, its 8:28am here, guess I was just being impatient with him. now if I could just figure out how to control my damn UTH we will be all set. Got a dimmer.....doesnt appear to be able to help though, still getting too hot.

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Originally Posted by sw204me

Right now hes currently sitting in his water bowl, its 8:28am here, guess I was just being impatient with him. now if I could just figure out how to control my damn UTH we will be all set. Got a dimmer.....doesnt appear to be able to help though, still getting too hot.

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Get a thermostat, not a dimmer http://www.reptilebasics.com

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Originally Posted by sw204me

damnit, my pet's brain is bigger them mine.....new I should of gone with a parakeet.

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rotfwl
nice one. :)

While I agree a thermostat I'd definately the better option I am a little confused why you say the dimmer doesn't help - the dimmer switches I have can turn the thing attatched down to the point of turning it off with a click.

if you turn it completely off and the temperatures are still too high then you need to control the other heat source better as well.



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