My first red tail!!!

[norcal707]

So went to the show last weekend and ended up bringing this beautiful girl home. What do you guys think?
Also, any tips on what to do and what not to do... She will be housed in a AP T10 with shelf that I'll have here in a week or 2 and she'll have a pro products heat panel.

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[fndjason4]

She is nice! Great pick up. Boas are a lot of fun. Enjoy.

[Sauzo]

Nice little BCC. My first advice is feed on the small side until she settles in. My little 7 month old girl was on medium mice from the breeder but I have been feeding her hopper mice until she is fully settled in and pooping regularly. So far she has eaten 2 hopper mice and pooped for me twice. Yours is a lot bigger than my girl lol. My girl is 2' if she stretches lol. Here's her gift to me the night she arrived. Oh and one other thing, I would give yours a few hides as you are using a T10 which the shelf is taller. I got my babies in T8s which the shelf is low enough it doubles as a big hide along the back along with their 2 normal hides. They love to sleep under the shelf behind the hides and the suri girl loves to sit half on her warm hide and half on her shelf at night.

[cletus]

Beautiful snake! Congrats!

[Gio]

Lovely animal. Clean and lean!

[norcal707]

Nice little BCC. My first advice is feed on the small side until she settles in. My little 7 month old girl was on medium mice from the breeder but I have been feeding her hopper mice until she is fully settled in and pooping regularly. So far she has eaten 2 hopper mice and pooped for me twice. Yours is a lot bigger than my girl lol. My girl is 2' if she stretches lol. Here's her gift to me the night she arrived. Oh and one other thing, I would give yours a few hides as you are using a T10 which the shelf is taller. I got my babies in T8s which the shelf is low enough it doubles as a big hide along the back along with their 2 normal hides. They love to sleep under the shelf behind the hides and the suri girl loves to sit half on her warm hide and half on her shelf at night.

That's a nice gift.. yeah I plan on using a few hides and some fake plants. What do you recommend for bedding? Right now she's on newspaper..

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[Sauzo]

I'm using Eco Earth right now. Working pretty good. The snakes seem to like to dig a crater on top of their flexwatt and just curl up and sleep on it after dinner. Then they kind of just dig little tracks and lay in them lol. I've used ReptiChips too which is good as well but my boas started digging their butts under the stuff and hiding poops and pisses which made it a pain. Also hard to find pisses from the retic. Used aspen for years and it worked but harder to keep humidity. My advice is try different stuff until you find one that works for you. With an AP cage, pretty much anything will hold humidity. I sit around 80-85% humidity with Eco earth. I let it dry out for the most part, then let the snake run around the couch or bed while I push the substrate into a pile and pour some water on it and stir it up, then spread it back out. Usually only have to do that once a month since I throw the stuff out every month for the retic and every 1-1.5 months for the boas.

I hate newspaper personally. It doesn't give snakes any grip. Imagine walking across a hardwood floor 24/7 in socks. It would get old fast lol. But anyways, try cypress mulch, Eco Earth, ReptiChips and see what you like the best. Can also do what I do a lot of them time and switch it up every few orders lol. The snakes really don't seem to care as long as dinner is coming haha. My snakes are pretty oblivious to most stuff. They have grown very complacent. Bet they would die in the wild haha.

[Ginvbch]

Beautiful red tail!

[Sauzo]

A little update on the substrate. Was using Eco Earth. Ordered some Plant IT coco husk. Basically the same as ReptiChips but half the price as I throw out my substrates every month or month and a half. So I'll be trying that for the babies and seeing how they like it. I know my big snakes like.

[norcal707]

A little update on the substrate. Was using Eco Earth. Ordered some Plant IT coco husk. Basically the same as ReptiChips but half the price as I throw out my substrates every month or month and a half. So I'll be trying that for the babies and seeing how they like it. I know my big snakes like.

Okay yeah let me know. I just got my reptichip in today and will be putting it in here shortly. Let me know how the plant IT works.

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