That's a lot of questions from a SnakeLess Person.

[Zamor]

Hello guys! First of all, i want to say thanks even before askin something. I went for 2 weeks reading like every single sticky and the most recent pageS of threads.
Now, i guess is time to make some question, i did rather make a big post than spam almost every section.
Take note: English isn't my first language, so this could make you cringe lol


1- I never had a snake before. Or if i would say better, i didn't take care of him if not watching him slythering around the tank. My parents were'nt really informed on how to keep such an animal, and it was a painfull experience ( i think more for the snake than for us ) and he got relocated after 1 year. That's why i decided to literally read everything. Btw, the question is: How actually hard is to keep a snake? Compared to a.. idk, bird, cat, would u rate it easier or harder?

2- Basing or your previous answer, how hard it is to keep multiple snakes for a first time owner?

3- I remember how painfull it was keep the animal in a tank, with substrate and such. It was literally a 100L acquarium with some soil ( i don't remember the actual substrate ), the classic log ( ouch ) and IIRC a heat lamp or somethin similar and umidity not checked by anything. The poor thing had just a bowl of water and that's it. Now i don't want to do the same mistake and obviously i educated myself about husbandry and such, but i have no space to get multiple dedicated tanks and i don't want to get in troubles wit humidity keeping and soil to change, so my thought was to build a rack system of my own. The question is: how to keep air circulating if i guess the actual tub have to come pretty close to the "building" itself to not let the snake get loose? Holes in the sides? 1/2 cm of difference between the tub and the building? They don't need it?

3- In a rack system, do all the flexwatt get attached to a single thermostat to see the temperature or every tub has their own thermostat? There isn't risk of heat building up making a danger for the animals?

4- Same question as before, but about humidity.

5- Does any plastic tub make the job or it will be needed an actual kind of plastic? A full colored plastic ( like, solid grey for say ) would be still good or does the snakes actually need the tub to be opaque/clean to get the natural cycle of light/dark? Do any of you have suggestion on what to use from Ikea/Leroy Marlen ( if that's a thing for you americans )/big companies actually aviable in italy? We lack a lot of those big chains that i often see in your posts, so it is just to get an idea.

6- My plan is to use a room of 12 mq on my covered terrace. I live in sicily, Italy, where we have actually 43 C° and during winter we go to 3-8 C° for 2 weeks and then usually around 10-15 C during the rest of the season. Given you those condition, over than insulate the room with a 3 cm polystirene ( or something similar, u get what i'm saying ahah ) will i need to actually conditionate the temperature of the whole room or the flexwatt will be ok to take care of the snakes?

7- Which percentage of m/f do i need? Let me explain myself. I'm not getting in it for the money, but for the animals themself and because i love to play with the genetic, until we are allowed. I was a breeder for guppy and betta show, and tryed even with bird ( unlucky both couples were killing their sons, so i gave up after of a couple of cruent images i did rather not assist anymore ), and meanwhile i was playing with their beautiful colours and shapes, it was self sustaining because of the selling. As i'm not a multimillionare, i'd rather start a breeding project that will at least cut the expences in 4-5 years.

8- given the answer to the previous question, it would be better having a male "high end morph" and few females with lower "quality" ( i feel bad using those terms, they aren't a product ) or maybe get few low ends morphs and work towards the high one with my own breeding?

9- Considering the multiple snake i will have a day, i'd like to breed my own feeders, just because i already know how much it iwll cost getting them from a pet store in my zone. A LOT. Btw, does rats require special care beside extreme cleaning, always water and food, not overpopulation in tubs, normal animal caring etc? Like, temperature wise, normal room ambient would be good? I had some mouse and rabbits before, they didn't ask anything than a female to make babies, but idk how it actually work in a large scale of things lol

10- if someone here is italian, could you help me finding F/T sources, forums, fb group, w/e? Not that i don't like the english stuffs, but i'd like to see where we italian are


I guess that's all. At least, for now, i just did a quick writing of the first questions i got in mind xD If u got until here, gz to you, you are the mvp! And sorry again for my bad english lol