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Today we traded our 1 year old B&W Arg. for ALPHA's 4.5 ft female Dumeril Boa. http://www.tegutalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1280
Does anyone have any experience with them?? I've read many conflicting care sheets. Many say treat them like a common RTB. Many say they like to burrow. The only ones that agree with each other are the ones that were regurged from another site.
Any suggestions???
When we finally got home my wife took the snake out (unnamed so far) and wore her for the next 3 hours while I cleaned out & disinfected the 75G tank, sifted half a huge bag of cypress (taking out all of the sticks and med/large pieces), made the dog bowl hide (maybe she'll use it?! - I'm add another if she does.) and semi set it up. I still need to cover most of the top with aluminum foil and back duct tape to hold in the humidity. The snake seemed very content. The temp of the warm end was 75 when I took the pic 2 hours ago, I think it's over 78 now and slowly rising as the mulch heats up. I'm going to leave the 75W halogen bulb on overnight (normally on timer) along with the 75W night time bulb over the water bowl (to add humidity). When I put the snake in he just stretched out a little and hasn't moved since. Sleeping?? In his old enclosure (36" x 18") he couldn't burrow (not even an inch of substrate) and the hide was broken and not big enough to hide under so maybe he spent most of his time out in the open.
She's about 4.5 ft long and much stronger than my 3.5 ft BP. But she seems to have the same mellow personality.
Does anyone have any experience with them?? I've read many conflicting care sheets. Many say treat them like a common RTB. Many say they like to burrow. The only ones that agree with each other are the ones that were regurged from another site.
Any suggestions???
When we finally got home my wife took the snake out (unnamed so far) and wore her for the next 3 hours while I cleaned out & disinfected the 75G tank, sifted half a huge bag of cypress (taking out all of the sticks and med/large pieces), made the dog bowl hide (maybe she'll use it?! - I'm add another if she does.) and semi set it up. I still need to cover most of the top with aluminum foil and back duct tape to hold in the humidity. The snake seemed very content. The temp of the warm end was 75 when I took the pic 2 hours ago, I think it's over 78 now and slowly rising as the mulch heats up. I'm going to leave the 75W halogen bulb on overnight (normally on timer) along with the 75W night time bulb over the water bowl (to add humidity). When I put the snake in he just stretched out a little and hasn't moved since. Sleeping?? In his old enclosure (36" x 18") he couldn't burrow (not even an inch of substrate) and the hide was broken and not big enough to hide under so maybe he spent most of his time out in the open.
She's about 4.5 ft long and much stronger than my 3.5 ft BP. But she seems to have the same mellow personality.