Picking up my first ever BP.

[Coleman]

I'm going to be buying a 70g Ball from royal constrictor designs. He's going to send it when I buy my enclosure set up. I've read SO much varying information. So first hand. What should I go buy? I have about 250 to spend on the enclosure. Hoping to save though.

He's going to be a Banana (100% het genetic stripe)... Whatever that means.

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[Stewart_Reptiles]

For A 70 Grams BP I would get a 6 quarts shoe box, aspen bedding, UTH, Thermostat, Digital Thermometer/Hygrometer, 1 Plastic flower Pot Saucer (hide), Water Dish.

Once the animal put on some size about 150/200 grams move it to a 10 gallons tank if this is the route you want to go, which you will have to upgrade as it goes.

Do not buy a 30 gallons tank for a 70 grams hatchling it will be way to big.

And remember the priority is to get the animal to feel secure and start feeding for you so while you will be excited about your new addition remember to let the animal settle for a week (no handling) and offer food at the end of that week.



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[Coleman]

Okay do. Real quick. What is a UTH? a mat heater? For under the box? Is there a specific size? And is the thermostat what controls the heating pad? Sorry for all the questions. He's Allready paid off so I'm hoping that I get a healthy enclosure for him.

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[frostysBP]

Fallow what deb said and you will be fine. Uth under tank heater ....so yes a heat mat .the thermostat controls the temp of the heat mat.... do you have access to live food.....hatchlings most of the time are eating live.... as for what the het genetic strip mean...It carrys a recessive gene that is not visual and you have to breed another snake carrying the same genetic strip gene. So if you never plan on breeding then u just paid a little more for a banana..lastly dont skip the thermostat.....it can burn your snake...

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[frostysBP]

You want the heat to cover 1/3 of the enclosure......

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[Coleman]

Okay thank you guys so much. Idk if I'm gonna bread or not, I might. But not unless I know I can be responsible or not. Do you bread? And if so do u keep all of the babies?
One last question cause I think I'm confident about what I'm doing. What is a good UTH and thermostat? Do they come in pairs..

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[Coleman]

Breed****

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[skatefastdieyoung]

Before i saved for my herpstat i used dimmer-switches to control UTH (if you go the dimmer route MAKE SURE you buy a Temp-gun to accurately measure/record how hot the overall ground temp in the vivarium is. I've never had a dimmer switch fail or get to low or high on me.) . A good UTH would probably be Flexwatt heat tape IMO. For controlling humidity and temp i usually go with the Zilla 11577 (I've had great experience with it) Also i wouldn't jump into breeding so soon.

[Coleman]

Okay I'll look those up.

No I'm not gonna breed probably. Unless it comes a serious hobby and I'm 100% positive that I can sell and take care of babies.

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[stickyalvinroll]

Just get a 32 qt tub. No need to switch him through multiple enclosures. It causes stress