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07-Apr-07, 09:17 AM
|  | Seller | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: Epping, NSW | | |
Time: 8:45am
Temp: 20 degrees
Weather: raining and miserable
This guy is in the avairy outside soaking up the rain. They do this quite often.
How are you keeping your diamonds? Under a hotspot of 32 degrees in a nice dry enclosure? Makes you think about the husbandry of these pythons.
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Jonny
Last edited by Jonny; 31-Dec-07 at 09:05 AM.
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07-Apr-07, 09:21 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: May-06 Location: Somewhere in between the beach and the bush Age/Gender: 27  | | | | yeah it does make you think doesn't it. Lets all forget that they are a primative animal and treat them like little puppies and knit blue cardigans to keep them warm in winter
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07-Apr-07, 09:23 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: sunshine coast QLD | | | | i have a close freind who owns hundreds of acres in nsw and he said in the middle of winter he used to go walking up the creeks to check his crops if you know what i mean and he said that there was diamonds stretched out across logs so they must like the cool weather |
07-Apr-07, 09:28 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: May-06 Location: Somewhere in between the beach and the bush Age/Gender: 27 | | | no I don't know what you mean. What sork of crops would he be checking in winter?? 
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07-Apr-07, 09:35 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Apr-05 Location: sydney | | | | makes sense doesn't it
at vision valley in sydney i saw a group of six very undernourished male diamonds sunning themselves on a rock shelf on a misty july morning....i wonder if they get DPS? they were all 6 feet plus by the way and nothing like the fat diamonds people post pics of
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07-Apr-07, 09:37 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: sunshine coast QLD | | | | happy crops |
07-Apr-07, 09:38 AM
|  | Regular Member | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by liasis  happy crops | Tripper! |
07-Apr-07, 09:40 AM
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07-Apr-07, 03:00 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: Toronto | | | | Diamonds often soak or even hunt in the rain they know that most creatures are tucked up out of the rain in caves and logs exactly were pythons love to explore for food.?
They also soak after a large food item has been eaten, To remove parasites like {mites, ticks} or bad sheds .. This behavior continues in captivity with pythons soaking in water bowls.
I personally provide a soak tub for each python some do some dont.
My pythons certainly get active when it rains in doors or out. |
07-Apr-07, 03:28 PM
|  | FAYSE! Moderator | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Illawarra Gender:  | | | | Our snakes in the aviary the cooler and the wetter they are out in it!!! |
07-Apr-07, 04:46 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-04 Location: The far and bewildered mountainside of the strange region of Carpathia Age/Gender: 33 | | | | Yeah, my diamonds dont mind a bit of rain and will stay out on branches during cool weather.
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07-Apr-07, 04:49 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Feb-03 Location: Gold Coast Age: 35 | | | I provide a water bowl big enough for all my snakes to soak in. The Diamonds and Olives are ALWAYS in there after a feed. By the way, that avairy is great, I am sure your Diamonds are very happy. 
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07-Apr-07, 06:31 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: NSW Gender: | | | | lovly snake you have got there mate
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08-Apr-07, 01:13 PM
|  | Regular Member | | | | I've observed this as well.
Not just in the aviary but in enclosures that are outside where they can smell the rain and humidity and feel the cool air.
With so many of us observing this, we can assume this to be normal Diamond behaviour.
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08-Apr-07, 09:22 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Sydney | | | | Couldnt agree more, none of my diamond have hot spots more than 28 degrees.
40watt globe thats it. they spend most the time up the other end of the enclosure anyway, unless there digesting food.
Definately a cause of a lot of Diamond deaths and even Diamond Python Syndrome IMO. | | |
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