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    Re: 80% humidity for BP, vet visit story?

    Quote Originally Posted by DVirginiana View Post
    If your vet has to consult a manual before treating your animal and can't cite scientific papers or medical case studies to back up what they're saying, it's time to find a new vet . I've had vets that had to basically go into the back room and look up info on the animal I was bringing in before, but they at least had the decency to tell me that they were going outside their realm of experience...

    That person has no idea what they're talking about. 80% humidity is what I use for my tropical frogs and inverts, way too high for a BP. The substrate basically has to be soaked to get it that high. 50% may be on the low side for humidity, but I doubt it would cause a problem as long as you bump it a bit during the shed cycle. 86 may be on the higher end for ambient temp; I try to have a hotspot at 90 with roughly 80 ambient temp. However, again I don't believe that would be high enough to make them sick.
    I have owned this new BP for exactly two weeks today, she could have came to me sick or was stressed from the move. Either way I put her in quarantine like I do all my new snakes. My house is naturally (during spring and summer) 78 - 85F. It is super hot and uncomfortable. Yuck! I raise humidity between 60-70% when they are shedding.

    Also, the vet did not look at a manual. They gave me a handout (could of sheets of paper stapled together) at the receptionist for me to read before being called into the vet. The vet wanted me to see it.
    Last edited by BCS; 06-11-2015 at 11:41 PM.

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