Hi,


Yeah I'd say a gaurd is pretty much indispensible - my male ball has some nasty burn scar down his side from coiling round a bulb as a baby. Apparently their instinct to coil tightly when they feel pain means they **may** end up coiling tighter round the bulb and getting burnt even worse.

The best thing is to make your own out of appropriately sized mesh - just remember not to use plastic mesh near a CHE. I managed to find some good mmesh in a hardware store and just made it using a set of pliers. Make sure there are no rough edges and that the little houdini's can't get inside it especially where it attatches to the viv.

What are boaphile racks made of again? - just trying to work out how you could attatch it so it is secure but removable. Because sod's law says 2 days after fitting an immobile gaurd the bulb will fail.


dr del