Yeah, my late night posting has caught up with me, lol. My wording made it seem like I condone room temperature keeping, which is not the case. I should have said something more along the lines of "I have seen quite a few balls survive in less than appropriate caging and heating, and showed little to no adverse effects once returned to an appropriate environment" One of my good friends owned a great a pet shop, and he'd take in balls quite a bit, and usually, it would take some substanstially poor husbandry to hurt the balls long term. RI's seemed most prevalent but were still pretty rare and returning them to a properly heated cage cleared up all but one case that I remember that needed some antibiotics to clear up. Balls seem to ineveitably quit eating if thier cage is too cold for too long, and thats why 90% of the customers wanted to drop off thier balls, or would stop in for us to trouble shoot thier issues. (usually bought from a large pet mart and had no advise on how to care for them).Originally Posted by recycling goddess
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