Why did he die after having him 6 months

[martinarquero]

sorry he died, you should post a pic of him and enclouser, get your albino to a vet for a check up before she just dies on you to, if he had some sort of sicknes she might have the sicknes to,

[B@LLZ4LIFE]

o trust me i will if she dies on me il be pissed

[anatess]

I am so sorry for your loss. I hope you find the answers you are looking for. I can't help in that capacity but just know that you have friends here.

[B@LLZ4LIFE]

what do you use or ways you all keep your humidity up

[Freakie_frog]

I just mist them once a day when I notice they are going in to shed.

[escomaya]

I Believe you said you had a 20 long tank with a lamp, Im guessing you have a mesh lid for it, the lamps suck all the humidity right out, I would recommend cutting a plastic garbage bag and laying it over the mesh to hold humidity in, away from the lamp, another thing would be to switch to a under tank heater and get rid of the lamp

[anatess]

I found something out this week. Okay, I got one of those glass tanks set up like a forest theme so I have a rock-like water bowl. It's some kind of plaster type material. I have had to change substrate to cypres, put half of the water bowl over the UTH, add damp moss, foil up 3/4 of the screen top and sometimes mist to keep the humidity to 50%. So then I found this plastic type water bowl whose color matches my decor better, so I replaced the rock-like one. It caused my humidity to jump up to 70%! So, I took out the moss and opened up the foil a bit and now it's back to 55%. So yeah, the water bowl material can affect the rate of evarporation of the water when half of the bowl is sitting on top of the UTH.

[Toronto Python Gurus]

what do you use or ways you all keep your humidity up

i have a humidifier(from wal-mart) that keeps the room at a solid 50% and i mist each snake everyday or every other day dependin on what their enclosures are at, during a shed i bump it up to 60%-70%

my snakes are in racks if i find a rubbermaid isnt holdin enough humidity ill cover some holes if there is too much ill drill a few more holes . . . if your using a tank with a screen lid there are a few things you can do to bump ur humitidy:

1. get rid of the heat lamp it takes moisture away not to mention ball pythons need belly heat and spend most their time underground in burrows and come out at night to hunt for food so they dont tend to need too much light.
2. place the water dish over the under tank heater(when u get one).
3. cover part of the screen top with plexiglass, garbage bag, shrink wrap etc....
4. mist as much as needed.


hope this helps, sorry for ur loss, there are alot of people that are willing to help so this doesnt happen to you again!

[wolfy-hound]

Snakes should be housed seperately, one tank - one snake.
Your humidity and tempurtures are probably way off, since you are using inaccurate dials, instead of a digital thermometer.
Pick up a digital thermometer, and perhaps get UTH to use instead of a lamp.
How are the other 5 snakes you say you have housed?

[JeffJ]

Id like to apologise, i came off a little bit harshly.

however i do stand by my opinion that issues of care were ultimately the cause of the untimely death