Morellia Madness

[jmcrook]

Valid points, particularly on the vent and heat transfer fronts. Do the cages you've ordered have some sort of spacer bar/stacking kit you could order if heat transfer becomes a real issue? I've seen more and more cage makers make and recommend them for stacks, to the point they suggest you don't stack without them.



Oh? Are we going to be seeing a new update thread here soon? Not surprised she was snapped up so quick. She is a very pretty, and apparently quite "outgoing"!

Now that I've put some serious thought back into it (and spent far too much time window shopping), I'm back on the Papuan train. No matter how many Morelia I look at, I always come back to them for multiple reasons. I think that's a sign of what the best choice would be. It certainly helps that there are a few high-yellow Papuans out there, a that quite a few individuals who have caught my eye...

Tangentially, I'm thinking it would be better order a new cage for the carpet instead of upgrading Kuzco early and giving the newbie the 20L. A cage would just be much more stable, and maintaining humidity wouldn't be as much of a pain. I've been seriously investigating total acquisition costs (which also include heating, UV, and a new Herpstat) and cage lead times the past few days. It all adds up to quite a bit. My course of action would be to get (read: pay for) all of the new housing first and then go for the snake. If one of the individuals I've been eyeing is still there, maybe it was just meant to be! If not... well, a nice housing set up could always be saved and used for the next snake to catch my eye. Because there's always at least one snake like that out there, and next season is just around the corner!

No spacers for the cages on order, but the plan is to use the transferred heat from lower enclosures to provide some belly heat in the enclosures above. I heat the whole room and use the panels as supplemental heat during the day with programmed drops at night, so the heat transfer shouldn’t be much if any issue and will likely minimize the amount of power used by panels in cages higher in the stack.

I could do that all right now with the current arrangement actually, I just don’t feel like dealing with the heat tape on the bottom of my 6’ divided enclosure and moving my rack and having to shuffle thermostats around. At current sizes and growth rates I really don’t even need the three cages I ordered but I’d rather them be here and ready than need them and have to wait 2-3-7 months. Honestly might not even build them up right away.

And yes, once temps are in good order expect a bright yellow and jet black progression thread hah! Hope to see some West Papuan goodness on your end sooner than later too! Are you referring to Nick’s 2020 hatchlings? Eric’s? With unlimited space, time, and resources I’d have at least one of every carpet species if not a pair.

MM4L


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