Escalade Enclosure

I figured it was bout time to join a forum and become more educated, so every body this Ralf and my self, (when i first got him at 4mos.)--
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34...18_05_0045.jpg
and my friend sweats my balls, lol, so he bought Earl http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34...26_05_1632.jpg
Here is my enclosure, The escalade ended up in there because my dumb @@@ let the snake crawl in it 1 night and it got WAY stuck, so it got swiftly taken apart, and now he uses it for hiding and shedding
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34...5/ralftank.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34...ch05/ralf1.jpg

how in the heck do you resize pics on this site? I have resized in photobucket (3 times) and tryed refreshing and re-previewing and nothing. .
thanks 4 viewing!

do u have any sort of beding on there

i love the escalade!

Welcome!

Nice setup, but make sure you keep an eye on the humidity in there. It looks like one of those guys had a bad shed. Glass enclosures are notorious for humidity problems. Search the forums here for suggestions on how to maintain proper humidity in your enclosure.

Yup, he actually went through 2 sheds that were about as wrong as it could get, thats when I starting sourcing the i'net trying to correct what I was doing wrong, that (new,bigger) water dish, and putting it in the middle helped bump the humidity to stay 55-60, (once I learned I needed a hygrometer)
There is bedding, it is a XTRA long tee shirt, something 50cent would rap about, I had access to a whole case of them, so I opted 4 them, they make 4 easy disposal cleaning. I will be switching to Aspen or cocanut bark when I find it, do u thing the t-shirt is fine 4 now?

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do u thing the t-shirt is fine 4 now?

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Switch to newspaper or papertowels. T-shirts can harbor bacteria and other organisms when wet. Also go through the caresheet here and if you have further q's do a search on the subject. Chances are, it has already been discussed before :)

Just on a side note there about Tshirts. I dont know if this wirks for BP's, but in the RTB forums I frequent they say t-shirts will help cure nippy snakes. They say to place a used t-shirt in a RTBs enclosure for a week or so, if it's nippy or strikes you. This will help it become familiar with your scent. I don't know if this would work for BPs or if this is a good practice or not. I would not use it as a permanent substrate though. I do like the enclosure though.

thanks, I had someone say the same thing about the scent. I wont be wearin one of these particular tee's tho, I am 6ft even and it would come to my knees, easily.

never thought about the bacteria thing, it does get changed weekly, but I will def be upgrading substrate asap.

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Originally Posted by lars5277

Just on a side note there about Tshirts. I dont know if this wirks for BP's, but in the RTB forums I frequent they say t-shirts will help cure nippy snakes. They say to place a used t-shirt in a RTBs enclosure for a week or so, if it's nippy or strikes you. This will help it become familiar with your scent. I don't know if this would work for BPs or if this is a good practice or not. I would not use it as a permanent substrate though. I do like the enclosure though.

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I have done this and it woks with some boas and not so well with others.. Some are just ment to be strickers..lol

So here is the enclose 3 monthes later
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34...p/000_0104.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34...p/000_0107.jpg

One of him now

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34...p/000_0102.jpg
And what I did w/ the Escalade, nice,cool,dark n cozy.
also chopped the stand down a lil to give a smaller enslosure feelin.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34...p/000_0106.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34...p/000_0105.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34...p/000_0103.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34...p/000_0101.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34...p/000_0100.jpg


I apologize for such large pics, it took long enough for this, resizing is a whole nother day!, Just thought I'd show how long his home has came. Thanks for lookin!

Looking much better! :sweeet: I bet he's loving it!

Oh yeah he is definatley loving it! The Aspen was a shocker for him, especially when figured out he couldn't get in the escalde so I dug a couple tunnels and loves chillen in there now

I never thought about using plastic models as hides....ooooo....now the possibilities are endless!

I've got a 350Z I did pink that could be very hot Cleo action (if I gutted the model, O.o!).

its actually a die castmodel that used to fulla tv's and had spinners! lol, but was given to the snake when he got a lil "stuck" in it one night and had to be taken apart.