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02-Feb-08, 06:53 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-08 Location: sydney Gender:  | | | help with diamond pythons
hey all
i am soon buying a 12 month old diamond python and i need help
i need some one to tell me:
what kind of cage i need
what heating and lighting
and what should i place in the cage
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02-Feb-08, 08:04 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: typical melbourne Gender: | | | | when you buy or make your cage make sure the cage is high mine is 6ft high by 4ft wide by 2ft deep and use 2 by 250 watt ceramics and 2 40watt blue party globes and put a hide and big water bowl and plenty of branches for your diamond to climb and put a basking shelf or 2 but mainly under the heat lights .you can go in my avatar to see the enclosure i made for my girl she is around 6.5ft long now and her last shed measurement was 2.55cms long hope this helps you Zimbo |
02-Feb-08, 08:21 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Hallowed Hills | | | At that age depending on how big it is you could probably use a plastic tub with a heat mat.
Couple of hides a water bowl and maybe a few branches.
And the snake of course! 
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02-Feb-08, 08:22 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: On the water or in the Bush. Gender: | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dazza74  when you buy or make your cage make sure the cage is high mine is 6ft high by 4ft wide by 2ft deep and use 2 by 250 watt ceramics and 2 40watt blue party globes and put a hide and big water bowl and plenty of branches for your diamond to climb and put a basking shelf or 2 but mainly under the heat lights .you can go in my avatar to see the enclosure i made for my girl she is around 6.5ft long now and her last shed measurement was 2.55cms long hope this helps you Zimbo | " 2 by 250 watt ceramics " 
For the same inclosure size, I use a 40 or 60 watt spot light - phillips spotone.
Each enclosure has a shelf approx. 500mm [ 1/2 metre ] below the down light.
The basking spot temp. is 32 deg.
Its on between 6.30am - 11am - thats it. [ Unless its feeding time, then they all get an extra few hours or so late in the afternoon for the first couple of days after a feed. ]
No night time heat is ever given.
Being a 12 month old Snake, you may need some heating at night depending where you
actually live.
Cheers,
Aleks.
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02-Feb-08, 08:25 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-08 Location: sydney Gender: | | | | thank u soooo much this will help me alot
btw i am a newbie how do u get into ure avatar so i can check ure incloser |
02-Feb-08, 08:48 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: typical melbourne Gender: | | | | mungus how big is your enclosure and how old is your diamond
zimbo click on mt pic where my name is and go into threads by dazza 74 my big girls enclosure |
02-Feb-08, 10:00 PM
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02-Feb-08, 10:06 PM
|  | Custom Enclosures Sponsor | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Newcastle | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mungus " 2 by 250 watt ceramics "
For the same inclosure size, I use a 40 or 60 watt spot light - phillips spotone.
Each enclosure has a shelf approx. 500mm [ 1/2 metre ] below the down light.
The basking spot temp. is 32 deg.
Its on between 6.30am - 11am - thats it. [ Unless its feeding time, then they all get an extra few hours or so late in the afternoon for the first couple of days after a feed. ]
No night time heat is ever given.
Being a 12 month old Snake, you may need some heating at night depending where you
actually live.
Cheers,
Aleks. | Aleks knows his stuff 
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02-Feb-08, 10:11 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: typical melbourne Gender: | | | | hey mungus my temps are 28 to 29 under her basking shelf and 18 to 20 at the bottom plus it gets colder in Melbourne |
02-Feb-08, 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by dazza74 hey mungus my temps are 28 to 29 under her basking shelf and 18 to 20 at the bottom plus it gets colder in Melbourne | And hotter...lol
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02-Feb-08, 11:51 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: On the water or in the Bush. Gender: | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dazza74 hey mungus my temps are 28 to 29 under her basking shelf and 18 to 20 at the bottom plus it gets colder in Melbourne | I like the basking spot a bit hotter.
I like the cool end about 24 ish during the day [ months of feeding. ]
At night, room temp. is fine - never drops below 20deg's.
When cooling, the hot spot temp. never changes.
I just change the the spot light from 40w to 60w to get the required temps.
At night, in the middle of winter, temps have dropped down to 12 deg.
Has never seemed to worry them. All girls and boy's bred without a worry and produced nice healthy hatchies
Obviously, in cooler climates, you may need to add extra heating here or there to get the desired temps.
In Very hot climates, A/C is needed to keep room temperatures at a healthy level.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Aleks.
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03-Feb-08, 01:51 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-07 Location: sydney Gender: | | |  diamonds like moisture
I keep a 8ft fem in 4w x 4h x 3d enc with minimal heating. top temp in basking area is 28c
top temp in cool end 25c.
but thats just on advise from the vets {cannon & ball woolongong}/ mike
humidity min 60%
hope that helps 
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03-Feb-08, 02:00 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-07 Location: sydney Gender: | | |  well
dont forget the enviroment that they love to poulate in the wild folks.
high humidity patchy sun
thats what we all need to copy
we dont need to try & tell the snake how it will be kept.
research is easy
but only if we all honestly share our knowlage
tubs are no good in my opinion unleess u r using them as a temperay housing while cleaning the REAL enclosure.
but thats just me
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