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    Thanks guys. I am aware of the risks I put my snakes at, and I am absolutely putting all of my time in the morning while i have a few free hours for once, to rebuild the top to the other cage. I just got a new fully grown 4 year old male snake free due to the owner moving away and wanted a caring, loving, new home and owner and contacted me today. Hes beautiful. So docile its insane. I cant believe how much he weighs... if i were to guess id say more then double bellas weight without a question.. shes not even half his widest girth compared.

    Anyways.. in the pic you seen the cage that my small Jake lives in. I was after cleaning it, steralizing it, and changing from aspen to reptile brick-soil like substrate which you add water to and it expands and dry it out. I have a UTH under the hideout. I also have, but dont always use, $25 light bulbs (3 new ones) that petvalu sold me each screwed within a ceramic lamp. I don't use it much anymore, as i have a temp gun, that my father has lent me from work (he works for the city as a eletrician and its an accurate and super pricey temp gun). I spray the cage, mist, i mean, 2-3 squirts every few days, and NEVER let humidity go lower/higher then 50-65%.

    I actually tried, when I first got Jake, the $25 CORRECT 75w reptile bulb that is clear tipped, not foggy, from pet valu, to place the lamp directly on the mesh screen top on the right side of the cage. After noticing him never wanting to be on that side anymore, i tried testing the temp and the rock was at 125 F. No joke. In a hour. I did not have him in or mear the rock thankfully when i did the tests. So, i took an old guitar stand, and rigged a homemade way to reduce the risk of overheating. The stand allows me to adjust height and such, and is cinveinent. I will never put a bulb on top of the mesh screen ever again. Regardless of anyones input, i am super attached to my snakes, and as a newbie learning, i have made mistakes in which I own up to. But, i hope y'all don't think im a careless person, as this is not the case. I am doing my best. If Bella had not of escaped and if my son was not born so many weeks early I woulda fixed this cage up long ago.


    There will be no more combining snakes in cages for me, as I am really agreeing with you all that it makes perfect sense that jake is stressed due to Bellas presence within the cage. Timing makes sense, and I really had no other choice at the time, so apologies to those who look down upon me for my mistake(s).




    The new male, named Echo, looks as if he could be a morph of some type.. but again, I don't know how to see signs of morphs as some morphs look identical to me to some normals... Can someome tell me what people mean when they say 'they see visual flames and alisn heads' id reallllllllly appreciate the definition of the two descripive terms that are spoken of frequently on these forums.




    I will post pics of Echo in a half hour. OH i almost forgot the guy who gave me Echo today told me he eats six mice a week.... does that sound insane to you guys because it does to me. Either hes full of BS for whatever reason he would make a lie as such, or he is a idiot. He told me alive, at that.
    Last edited by Caper2016; 01-18-2017 at 08:56 PM.

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