Wayne's reptile room

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Shannon, I thought you said you heated the whole room???

I stopped keeping it as warm as I used to... since 1) we have gas heating and its costly and 2) I can tell my snakes prefer to bask under a light.

With the rack system constantly running, the room stays at about 77 degrees. With the garters that I recently switched to basking... I put in very low wattage coil bulbs (only enough heat comes out to make one ond of the tank a bit warmer) so that theres not a huge amount of heating coming out, but theres LIGHT and they gravitate to it like you wouldn't believe. I did an "experiment with my butleri babies. They stopped eating for some reason, all 5 of them. I put them on a thermostat regulated heating pad for two weeks and I got mixed results with eating. I took away the heat and instead provided a light that provided the same temps during the daytime. All 5 of them now are eating consistently and are not nearly as suspicious of food items put in front of them. I got such a good result, I decided to try it with my baby wanderings and I got the SAME result. Therefore, I will slowly be converting as many tanks as I can to accomodate a light source whether it gives off heat or not.

[crzy_kevo]

I stopped keeping it as warm as I used to... since 1) we have gas heating and its costly and 2) I can tell my snakes prefer to bask under a light.

With the rack system constantly running, the room stays at about 77 degrees. With the garters that I recently switched to basking... I put in very low wattage coil bulbs (only enough heat comes out to make one ond of the tank a bit warmer) so that theres not a huge amount of heating coming out, but theres LIGHT and they gravitate to it like you wouldn't believe. I did an "experiment with my butleri babies. They stopped eating for some reason, all 5 of them. I put them on a thermostat regulated heating pad for two weeks and I got mixed results with eating. I took away the heat and instead provided a light that provided the same temps during the daytime. All 5 of them now are eating consistently and are not nearly as suspicious of food items put in front of them. I got such a good result, I decided to try it with my baby wanderings and I got the SAME result. Therefore, I will slowly be converting as many tanks as I can to accomodate a light source whether it gives off heat or not.

well if you think about it they need the heat to help them digest and in the wild to get that heat they would sit in a sunny spot to absorb the heat so i think it is only natural that they we eat better with a light source present because they think they have a nice warm bright area to sit in.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

well if you think about it they need the heat to help them digest and in the wild to get that heat they would sit in a sunny spot to absorb the heat so i think it is only natural that they we eat better with a light source present because they think they have a nice warm bright area to sit in.

That is exactly where I was getting at with it

[infernalis]

Bummer day in the reptile room....

Two days ago I fed my little Florida blues I got from Shannon, they ate some salmon and a half pink each.

I just went in there and thought to myself, gee these guys are usually all over the place, yet only one was "out and about"

So I lifted up the hide, and found 3 of them dead

The salmon went straight to the Garbage can!!!!!

I just changed the substrate and water, have my fingers crossed for the remaining snakie, they all ate from the same food that night, and they all still had their bulge in the middle from the meal.

I exceeded my grief quota for the year already, so I am rather cheesed off about it instead of sad.

[adamanteus]

So I lifted up the hide, and found 3 of them dead.

Damn. So sorry about the babies, Wayne.

[infernalis]

Cheers mate, I'm still struggling to rehydrate the last one.

I keep going back there every few minutes and jostling on him.

It's going to be a long night.

[adamanteus]

I keep going back there every few minutes and jostling on him.

I did that with the radix.... I just kept putting her back into the water bowl..... she drank every time!

[infernalis]

Here you go Michael, it's this same thread just back a ways.

Bummer day in the reptile room....

Two days ago I fed my little Florida blues I got from Shannon, they ate some salmon and a half pink each.

I just went in there and thought to myself, gee these guys are usually all over the place, yet only one was "out and about"

So I lifted up the hide, and found 3 of them dead

The salmon went straight to the Garbage can!!!!!

I just changed the substrate and water, have my fingers crossed for the remaining snakie, they all ate from the same food that night, and they all still had their bulge in the middle from the meal.

I exceeded my grief quota for the year already, so I am rather cheesed off about it instead of sad.

[infernalis]

Here is my tough little guy eating his guppy..




And one of my red sided kids...

[brain]

Here you go Michael, it's this same thread just back a ways.

Ty and I did read this. So the only indicator of dehydreation was finding them DOA?