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Yes, it would be fine.
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No, the snake would freak!
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Other (please specify)
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27-Apr-07, 06:58 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Sutherland Shire Age/Gender: 17  | | | Keeping Hatchlings in Bigger Enclosure
It's probably been done before, but not that I could find. Just a poll on whether you think it would be safe to house a hatchling Children's Python in an adult enclosure (say, 60cm long x 50cm tall) - provided there were hides, branches and ground coverage everywhere.
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27-Apr-07, 07:00 PM
|  | Roadkill Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-05 Location: Western Sydney Age/Gender: 25  | | | | As long as it's escape proof and the snake continues to feed then the enclosure can be any size you want.
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27-Apr-07, 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by MrBredli  As long as it's escape proof and the snake continues to feed then the enclosure can be any size you want. | Thats pretty much it but just as some insurance, keep a smaller tub, hide, log etc. in there just so if he wants to hide, most likely he will, he has somewhere to go. because it can affect his feeding, health, stress all sorts of things....but generaly you should be fine |
27-Apr-07, 10:09 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Bris/Gold Coast Age/Gender: 32 | | | | Yeah it would be fine..... I had 2 Hatchy Carpets in a 4 ft Fish tank.... and they were fine...
As others have said... make sure that he/she continues to feed.... And put several hides and branches in there to make it feel like there is plenty of cover.... |
27-Apr-07, 10:30 PM
|  | UNIT Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: Sunny Sylvania Age/Gender: 30 | | | | i have always kept hatchies in large enclosures( usually a three footer) and have found that if a hatchy is going to be a troubled feeder he will be one no matter what size house he has! make sure they have a selection of hides is a tip i would give. and make one of them a heated hide if you can.
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27-Apr-07, 10:36 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Australia Gender: | | | | i keep my 80cm coastal in a 4ft h 2ft w 2ft w enclosure... he is placid as |
27-Apr-07, 11:04 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | | It will be fine, the only problem will be finding the snake to feed it and that you will virtually never see it. I kept my first spotted python in an enclosure about 1000x400x400 from hatchling size and it was fine.
From any practical point of view its a bad idea, but it will be ok. |
27-Apr-07, 11:08 PM
|  | Reptiles Galore Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: Redcliffe, Queensland Age/Gender: 18 | | | | I moved my stimson hatchy into her current enclosure when she was around a month old. This was mainly because she looked stressed out in her click-clack each night she'd go around it over and over again looking to escape, so I thought that I'd try moving her into her current enclosure and straight away she went up into the branches and appeared happier and has been loving it ever since, I made sure that she had pleanty of hides if she felt the need, I provided 4 differnet types of hides, she still has them in there today, but only ever uses them if she's about to shed. Moving her to her adult enclosure didn't put her off her food or stress her out or anything.
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28-Apr-07, 03:40 PM
|  | Punk in Drublic Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Gold Coast Gender: | | | | i put my childrens python in a click clack inside the future enclosre for about 2 months and then let him into the enclosure. i have slots at the back for vents so i screwed some flyscreen into some pvc borders over the vents as its the only spot he tried to get out of and got his head stuck. Apart from that he didn't freak or stress |
28-Apr-07, 03:55 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Hunter Valley | | | | it doesn't matter how big the enclosure is providing there is enough places for it to hide |
28-Apr-07, 03:59 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Sutherland Shire Age/Gender: 17 | | | Thanks everyone! I'm counting down the days till my b'day - I'm getting an enclosure, heat mat, hides, etc. I'm all excited (two of my friends are like, "Oh. Ok, cool. Just don't bring it out while I'm over."  ).
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28-Apr-07, 04:37 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Cairns Age/Gender: 22 | | | | i think its fine! i tend to put smaller snakes in bigger than needed areas, i just make sure they have a good hide box branches perches etc, so they can get away from the open spaces if necessary
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29-Apr-07, 01:27 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-07 Age: 44 | | | | thay live in the world and it,s a big place all thay need is a tiny hide thay feel safe and stick their head out and have a look | |
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