ok lets start with the little tank. it is a 40 breeder with the sliding locking wire mesh lid. the first time was my falt for not having the tank locked. the second time im not sure what happened. my husband told me that she was in there. the third time she worked at the corner of the lid and scraped her nose up and has a couple little scrapes on her sides.
the 200 gallon was a fish tank so it has little round holes on the top for cords. i have the one end set up with the pond and filter and reptile water heater so i have the cords going in and i put a rock on the hole to keep everyone in. she pushed the rock aside and i found her half in the 200 gallon.
so you may think im making things up but i know what is going on in my tanks. maybe im reading too much into what she does, but thats me.
ill keep reading and trying to take the advice of all of you.
i do have a question........ say i came in and said "I have a 200 gallon tank with a pond and plants for my ball python. trying to find other plants that she could have in with her." would my reactions be the same.
other than adding the other creatures all i did was for her....
when i first got her i did everything the way the books said. i got the ball python set up from the store- tank, over tank heater, under tank heater, water dish, half log for a hide, and the wood bedding for them. i made sure that the tank staied at the right temp and that the humidity staid between 40%- 60%. it took her three to four days to shed and it was in soooooooooooo many different peices and her eyecaps wouldnt come off.
she had indents in her eyes. it was absolutely horrable. the vet just kept telling me "try....."
so i started with the dirt and plants. things started looking up. her eyecaps came off.... but the humidity scared me. it staid at 70% and higher.
so i fiddled with things for the next 4 years and then finally got everything that i needed for the pond. i got the plexie glass and the aquarium glue (for fish tanks and anything holding water). and i started the pond. i got it holding water quite nicely and put rocks (for fish tanks) in there for colar.
with in two weeks of her having her pond she had her first real good shed. she got both of her eyecaps off and all her shed in one piece.
the pump, filter has hard tubes to make like a water fall and siss will move thta up and down and control the humidity in the tank. (yes i know probably not intentional) the filter will actually say what the humidity level is. if the water is spraying (comes out about an inch) the humidity is high and if it is under the water to just keep it moving the humidity is low.
i even made her hide a "rodent hole". i dug down and put piping tubing tipe for her to get into her den. and that is covered by a plastic "lid" (just a tank bottem piece for filtering) that i put the glue on the edges to make it where it wouldnt hurt her.
so now everything has been going for tree to four monthes.
all this time ive been talking with a friend that breeds diffrent reptiles and frogs. i asked him what would be ok to go in there. like everyone else says nothing.
well i told him about one problem i have alwas had. the bugs! nats and flies, nothing too bad.
so he said that alll reality green anoles can live in the TANK. they can live in the temp and humidity in the tank. he said that if i got them from the pet store to make sure to do a mite- be- gone and wait two weeks and do it again just to be sure since i dont want to have to tare the whole tank down. also he said that IF the anoles got eaten then i would have to de pestacite her for a precotion.
so other than the creatures that i added, everything was for her.
