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23-Oct-06, 01:30 PM
|  | slimin about! Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Cairns | | |
Right here goes... here's my silly question for the month...
I've noticed the big big big no no appears to be sticky tape in your snakes' tank...
I need to ask... Why?
Ok, I understnad why never put boiling water in your tank... I even understand why you should remove razor blades... but sticky tape?
I just want you all to know my tank is tape FREE! And I don't intend on using it...
However i was thinking why would it be so bad using insulating tape or the like to attach lets say a thermostat probe.
How else do you attach them? Is blu/yellow tak out of the question too? Glue???
Well - My curiosity has finally got the better of me, so i need to know then... why tape is so so so bad!
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23-Oct-06, 01:42 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Toowoomba-ish | | | |
Snakes being so enquisitive they tend to remove it from the walls and get wrapped up in it themselves. It starts sticking to one point and it doesn't take long untill they are all caught up in it. Use a hot glue gun if you need to keep something in place like that.
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23-Oct-06, 01:48 PM
| | slimin about! Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Cairns | | | |
Me and power tools are things than should never be left in a room alone... I once burnt my knee with a hot glue gun... but I was lucky and not stupid that I didn't touch it while the liquid glue was burning through my skin on my knee... And just pulled it off, rather painfully when it set...
I imagined that's the problem with tape... but couldn't see how a small amount could harm a snake... the amount of insulating tape required to hold a thermostat probe to a tank would be 3cm times about 3 peices... Im still not using it... but can't see what the hige fuss is about (yet). Anyone had any experience with it?
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23-Oct-06, 01:49 PM
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I am guessing that it is the fact that if ingested by an animal it would be very difficult to regurgitate, and possibly twist in the intestines causing a fatal blockage? I can't see any other reason. And no matter how well applied the tape is when it is exposed to high uv rays and possible high temperatures and humidity then the integrity of the tape could not be relied upon.
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23-Oct-06, 01:57 PM
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23-Oct-06, 02:00 PM
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Also snakes use there nose's to investigate, if it sticks to there nose's then they also run the risk of suffication. removal of tape can also mean the removal of scales and skin causing more damage wether we remove it or they do it themselves. As was mentioned digestion can cause untold damage.
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23-Oct-06, 02:19 PM
| | slimin about! Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Cairns | | | |
Ok ok... points all taken... I was never going to use tape... but now even if I was going to I wouldn't... Thanks!
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