Escalade Enclosure

[myballsandmyword]

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.)--

and my friend sweats my balls, lol, so he bought Earl
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




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!

[Swizzle]

do u have any sort of beding on there

[TheNooB]

i love the escalade!

[Smynx]

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.

[myballsandmyword]

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?

[iceman25]

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

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

[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.

[myballsandmyword]

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.

[justcage]

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.

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

[myballsandmyword]

So here is the enclose 3 monthes later




One of him now


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.









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!