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Meet Hercules
This is the first Ball Python I've owned. I have a 3ft corn named Earl. I picked him up through a friend of a friend. He's about 4ft. long and Approx. 5 years old. He came with the tank and accesories for $100. I am currently reading up on humidity and substrate. He didn't shed full this time around and still has eye covering and around the neck. Feel free to let me know of any suggestions since I am a newb.
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Re: Meet Hercules
take out the heat rock, get a good UTH, a digital thermometer/hygrometer, and a secure lid.
http://ball-pythons.net/modules.php?...warticle&id=59
there is a care sheet
for the skin, soak him for like 15-20 mins and see if you can gently roll the retained skin off. If not, you can soak him for more. If you do not feel comfortable rolling the skin, place him after a soak in a moist pillow case. Moving around should remove most of, if not all of the retained shed
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Re: Meet Hercules
Originally Posted by tmlowe5704
take out the heat rock, get a good UTH, a digital thermometer/hygrometer, and a secure lid.
nice..i second TM
~~Cristina~~
1.0.0-Spider Bp (MJ)
1.1.0-Pastel (Mya,Milo)
0.1.0-Albino Bp (Bananahead)
1.0.0-Het albino Bp (Steve)
1.2.0-Normal (Lava,Hera,Zeus)
0.1.0- BCI (Beauty)
0.1.0- Hog Island Boa (Juliet)
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Re: Meet Hercules
Originally Posted by cris78
nice..i second TM
canot forget either a dimmer or a thermostat
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Re: Meet Hercules
Originally Posted by tmlowe5704
canot forget either a dimmer or a thermostat
Almost forgot that..and what is that substrate?
~~Cristina~~
1.0.0-Spider Bp (MJ)
1.1.0-Pastel (Mya,Milo)
0.1.0-Albino Bp (Bananahead)
1.0.0-Het albino Bp (Steve)
1.2.0-Normal (Lava,Hera,Zeus)
0.1.0- BCI (Beauty)
0.1.0- Hog Island Boa (Juliet)
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Re: Meet Hercules
Originally Posted by cris78
Almost forgot that..and what is that substrate?
looks like that repticarpet stuff. holds smell like no other.
swap it out to newspaper, or if you are going for looks try aspen or reptibark. newspaper is real easy to clean and holds humidity pretty well and the aspen and reptibark are a little harder to clean but are visually appealing if that is the look you are going for
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Re: Meet Hercules
Thanks for all the fast replies. The person I picked him up from used the heat rock for the 4-5 years he has had him for. I have read on multiple sites that it's not good while reading up on them this morning. I will be on the way to the pet store but wanted to research a bit first. Currently he is on a sort of felt. Before the previous owner was using the "astro turf" but didn't have any left to change out. I have seen any sites recommending sand (I was thinking the digestible type) so was looking more into wood possibly cedar?
aspen or reptibark. newspaper is real easy to clean
Looks like newspaper it will be. I know that the humidity is fairly low around here during the winter.
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Re: Meet Hercules
Originally Posted by harleybro
Thanks for all the fast replies. The person I picked him up from used the heat rock for the 4-5 years he has had him for. I have read on multiple sites that it's not good while reading up on them this morning. I will be on the way to the pet store but wanted to research a bit first. Currently he is on a sort of felt. Before the previous owner was using the "astro turf" but didn't have any left to change out. I have seen any sites recommending sand (I was thinking the digestible type) so was looking more into wood possibly cedar?
cedar is not good for snakes. The previous owner may have had the heat rock for 4 or 5 years and god only knows how many burns the snake had. aspen can be picked up for very cheap at petsmart. That is about all I would buy from there. I paid $12.99 for a 50 qt bag, which is plenty to go around. it fills my 4 1960's in my rack, a 30 gallon breeder, and a custom 37x17 enclosure and it barely has any missing
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Re: Meet Hercules
Originally Posted by harleybro
Thanks for all the fast replies. The person I picked him up from used the heat rock for the 4-5 years he has had him for. I have read on multiple sites that it's not good while reading up on them this morning. I will be on the way to the pet store but wanted to research a bit first. Currently he is on a sort of felt. Before the previous owner was using the "astro turf" but didn't have any left to change out. I have seen any sites recommending sand (I was thinking the digestible type) so was looking more into wood possibly cedar?
Looks like newspaper it will be. I know that the humidity is fairly low around here during the winter.
it is okay to keep the humidity in the higher 40 range but when shed time comes bump it to at least 65.
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Re: Meet Hercules
What size enclosure is it in? If you are serious about keeping this snake, then spring for a good thermostat, not just a $30 one, which have been shown to fail more often than the good ones.
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