My Cage setup

[chetman7]

Hey guys, Haven't really posted here in a while. I brought home my python from school and instead of lugging around his 20 long, I just bought anew one to set up.

Heres some pics


Right now I"m using
Aspen
herbstat
UTH's
CHE


I've had so much problems getting the heat and humidity up to par. My room is so cold cause I'm in the basement. I ended up putting a UTH and CHE on the hot side set to 91.7 with the herb stat, and a UTH on the cold side running on a rheastat set at 80-82F. Got a waterfall and some fake leaves to fill in

Humidity didn't want to budge at all cause of the CHe sucking all of it out, I ended up putting tinfoil with some vents on it and a towel on top. In the Left side of the tank I bought a waterfall in which I thought would raise humidity especially since its on the cold side with teh UTH. HUmidity rose from 40-50, but it keeps on flunctuating so I'm prob gonna give it a few more days and if not I'm just gonna return it,

Heres some pics of Jake....the snake ( original right??? lol )
He/she is about 6 monthes old and 2 feet long. I ended up turning the lights off and putting the night vision on my digicam and watched him roam around his new surrounding...boy..does he like that waterfall.



If you guys have any suggestions, please feel free to put them down, I'm still new to these things. If anyone has any humidity tricks other then wet paper towels and misting..that would be great.

Thanks FOr reading

[dracovolans]

Your set up look nice but I recomend to take the waterfall out of the enclosure unless you plan to clean and desinfect it every day, it is a great place for bacteria to grow.

Great looking snake!!

[chetman7]

Thanks
yea I'm prob gonna end up returning it and getting a vine or something for him to crawl on. 40 dollars back into my pocket.

Any1 got humidity tricks. I can't get the humidity constant unless i spray down the cage 10 times a day...which is annoying

[dracovolans]

Try to heat with out the CHE, it sucks all the humdity. Also you can place the water bowl on top of the heat pad it will evaporate the water and push up the humidity, Cover both sides of the top with aluminum foil and leave only one segment uncover in the center.

Hope it helps!!

[Mike Cavanaugh]

Get rid of the tape on the inside of the tank. that is a MAJOR NO NO!

get rid of the towel. replace it with aluminum foil and duct tape (tape on the outside!)

Try news paper instead of aspen.

Get rid of the water fall... don't replace it with anyting. He doesn't need a limb to climb on.

Just my 2 cents.

[Mindibun]

Oh gosh, everyone's always on about the climbing limbs. Sorry, mcavana it's just a pet peeve of mine; nothing against you whatsoever. It's just that if it's a display tank, then there's nothing wrong with actually putting in something to *display* -lol-. It's not hurting the snake, and some actually *do* make use of it. My larger girl always did. Getting off the soap box now...

As for humidity, the aluminum foil on the top helps. If you still need more, then I suggest making what a lot of gecko people call a "humid hide". I made some today actually. I took some tiny tupperwares (the snack sized ones for lunch boxes) and using a soldering wand, cut out a large hole in the top. You fill it with moss, and mist it every so often and it bumps the humidity up.

Sometimes in a tank set up putting the water bowl under the light to bump humidity makes it evaporate TOO fast, and then you have to be very careful that the snake has water. That's why I recommend the humid hide idea instead.

Also, Walmart is awesome for foliage. You can get a lot of neat looking plants for $1. Check out this set-up that I did. It cost me all of $5.


Please post pictures if you alter it. I love seeing tank set-ups. Too many people have boring tubs. Myself included.

[missi182]

Mindibun, Oh thats cute I like the color! I did the same thing, hit the dollar store and bought TONNES of foilage for a few bux!

I personally have to cover the top of my tank with damp towels to keep the humidity around 60, but if you do that you gotta make sure you either wash them with soap and hot water every day or two, or simply change the towels. If you lose the che you can help keep the heat in by layering foil on 3 sides of the tank, as well as the bottom (between the UTH's and the glass) for insulation. Grab some aluminum tape for a uniform look, and it helps distribute the heat too.

[slobra232V]

What is wrong with having tape on the inside of the tank?

[Mindibun]

What is wrong with having tape on the inside of the tank?

It's possible that it will get stuck to the snake. When you try to pull it off, scales usually come with it.

[chetman7]

whats a humid hide??

can anyone explain how to make one? I definitly wanna give it a try to bump up humidity