help please ASAP

[defuze]

HAHA, I was actually placing another order now, Thanks for reminding me about a scale. Also, is there any place that sales live rodents online? Petsmart does not sell live, they sale frozen, and we have no Petco, plus I dont feel like getting mites from them. The closest person that sales live is about a hour away.

[blackcrystal22]

HAHA, I was actually placing another order now, Thanks for reminding me about a scale. Also, is there any place that sales live rodents online? Petsmart does not sell live, they sale frozen, and we have no Petco, plus I dont feel like getting mites from them. The closest person that sales live is about a hour away.

Where abouts do you live?
There may be more petstores than you think. There were two hidden petstores in my area that I had no idea existed until recently.
Petsmart should sell mice, but I don't think you can tell them its a for feeding as they want them to be pets only..

[defuze]

I live in North Carolina. And the PetsMart here only sales Hamsters, Ferrets and Gerbils, and a few chinchillas

[starmom]

Hmmm, well, I live in Oregon and have no idea what goes on in NC these days!

If you wanted to switch over to frozen, I recommend The Mouse Factory. They are very awesome people and their product is beyond compare

[dr del]

Well, its a 80 degree room at all times. I have a 5 gallon heat pad which normally runs the warm side about 91, and cool 86ish, I turn them off at night, at night he goes behind his water on the cool side, guess thats what he likes. I run the basking light for 3 hours a day, when the light comes on, pad goes off. I actually going to be no longer using the light, since he usually goes to the other side. I have a 10-20 gallon pad ordered, 2 digital thermometers, 2 small hides, and a small water bowl, and a thermostat, should actually be here Monday sometime via FedEx. But after looking at pictures of other bp's ... it seems most snakes skin folds at bends like mine does. I guess I just noticed it. But like I said, he does seem to be a softer than usually, hopefully you guys are right, and he is starting to shed , his last shed date was June 18th btw if anyone was wondering

Hi,

I'm a little puzzled - why do you turn the heat pads off at night?

It might be worth trying to experiment a bit to see if you can get the temps to 80-83 cool side and 90-93 warm side ( possibly using a combination of the light and heatpad? ). How much of the 10 gallon is sitting on the heat pad at the moment?

He should get enough ambient light from the room and there's no reason to give him a night time drop unless its for breeding.


dr del

[PythonChick]

Hello. I will just chime in here and see if I can be helpful. I don't know what part of NC you live in, but I know of stores/places where you could get live feeders in and around Raleigh and High Point. You may not be anywhere near any of those places, but I recommend looking at the yellow pages in your phone book and seeing if there are any pet stores listed there you don't know of. Good luck, you have a nice looking baby!

[defuze]

Hello. I will just chime in here and see if I can be helpful. I don't know what part of NC you live in, but I know of stores/places where you could get live feeders in and around Raleigh and High Point. You may not be anywhere near any of those places, but I recommend looking at the yellow pages in your phone book and seeing if there are any pet stores listed there you don't know of. Good luck, you have a nice looking baby!

I actually live in Goldsboro, about 1 hour from Raleigh, I know 2 places in Raleigh that sell live. I might make 1 trip a month, and buy what I need at one time.

[PythonChick]

The store I use in Raleigh is actually on the Garner side of Raleigh, so that might be more close to Goldsboro than some other places in Raleigh. I wouldn't give up though, there has to be something closer.

[defuze]

Well, my red tails eat frozen, so I MIGHT try to start him on frozen so I could just order from my usual place.

[PythonChick]

I would say getting him on frozen eventually would be a great idea. I am planning to switch mine over as soon as I move again at the end of the summer.