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10-Apr-07, 05:14 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: NSW- Mid North Coast Age/Gender: 19  | | |
Hey All, just wondering with heating for my python. He is almost 2 months old. Do i leave him on 24 hour heat or turn the heat off at night. I use a heat mat. Also it is coming up to winter do i have to do anything different? any help would be appreicated THANKYOU  |
10-Apr-07, 05:17 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Melbourne Age: 30 | | | |
I would leave the heat on 24/7 at that age and introduce night temp drops after 1 or 2 years
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10-Apr-07, 05:19 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-04 Location: The far and bewildered mountainside of the strange region of Carpathia Age/Gender: 34 | | | |
Have it in a tub, with half the tub sitting on a low wattage heat mat. Have the tub somewhere cool. Turn the mat off overnight. Over winter i still turn the heating off overnight for hatchlings except for when they have just fed. When they've fed i'll give them heat over 2 nights to help them digest the food.
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10-Apr-07, 07:29 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: NSW- Mid North Coast Age/Gender: 19 | | | |
ok thankyou for that information would it affect the diamond if i was to keep it on 24 hour temp untill it was 1 year old. The hot end of the cage is around 29-30 Oc and the cold 23-25 Oc is that good. The floor temperture is hotter at about 33 Oc because i am using a heat mat.
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10-Apr-07, 07:34 PM
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he looks happy..no need to cool diamonds until 2 yrs old at least...keep regular feed and thermal gradient all year round
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10-Apr-07, 07:41 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: NSW- Mid North Coast Age/Gender: 19 | | | |
thanks mate when you say regular feed how many days in between do you recommend?
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10-Apr-07, 07:47 PM
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i am no power feeder and grow snakes reasonably slowly...i would feed your diamond a velvet a fortnight to keep it healthy or one per week to get it to size fast then as big a mouse as it can handle as it gets bigger then pinky rats and so forth. Rats make diamonds grow like weeds.
Some feed a pinky a week then two pinkies the next week, some feed every time they poop ( not a bad plan)
hope this helps
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10-Apr-07, 07:52 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: NSW- Mid North Coast Age/Gender: 19 | | | |
that helps alot just making sure i am doing the right thing thaks alot mate!!!
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