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14-Oct-07, 09:52 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: perth wa Age/Gender: 46  | | |  taking snakes outside
is it ok to take my snakes outside for a crawl on the grass [supervised of course]
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14-Oct-07, 09:56 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23  | | |
That sounds like a really nice treat for them
I suppose it would be okay but if I were you Id just take them one at a time perhaps? If only just to make supervision easier. Snakes are expert hiders and quite fast if they want to be. You could find yourself having to hunt for one under the grass whilst the others vanish as well.
Im not a snake expert by any means, but Ive been given similar advice about blue tongues and their ability to vanish before your eyes.
Seeing as how this is my very first post in these forums, I hope I helped!
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14-Oct-07, 10:33 AM
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Natural sunlight is a lot better (for any reptile ) than any uv light bulb, I try to give all of our reptiles as much as possible, usually average 15 mins each, every second day.
When i take them outside. they are very closley supervised
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14-Oct-07, 10:36 AM
|  | Reptiles Galore Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: Redcliffe, Queensland Age/Gender: 18 | | | |
You'd have to make sure that birds don't try and attack them. Because I was standing outside holding my MD in the sun and magpies were swooping around trying to get him, so I brought him back inside.
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14-Oct-07, 10:39 AM
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I always take both my snakes outside on nice warm days (individually). I always keep a very close eye on them, but they go over the grass and large rocks, and they like to get up in nice small shurbs (so I can get them out again!). It's great exercie for them, and the natural sunlight if good for them as well.
When my bredli goes out, she find her fav. spot in a bush, goes into a hunting pose and somtimes stays there for an hour or so. I just park a deck chair next to her and read a book, then we are both enjoying the sun
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14-Oct-07, 10:25 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: perth wa Age/Gender: 46 | | | |
great ideas everyone thanks
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15-Oct-07, 05:48 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Bris/Gold Coast Age/Gender: 32 | | | |
Yeah I take mine out into the sun regularly....
Just dont put them anywhere near where you or parents, or anyoen else culd have sprayed pesticides...or put down poisons or baits......
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15-Oct-07, 06:03 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: kellyville,sydney Age/Gender: 34 | | |
yeah its ok,the uv does them good,but if there very small they can become prey
to kookaburras,currawongs etc
that would be upsetting to see your beloved swoopt on and taken away to nearby tree and get wacked against a branch a few times then devoured  |
15-Oct-07, 06:08 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Brissy, QLD Age/Gender: 23 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by PiMp  that would be upsetting to see your beloved swoopt on and taken away to nearby tree and get wacked against a branch a few times then devoured | graphic 
I take my snakes out one or two at a time to enjoy the sun and the grass for about an hour each usually on weekends.
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15-Oct-07, 06:27 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: near brisbane Gender: | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by PiMp yeah its ok,the uv does them good,but if there very small they can become prey
to kookaburras,currawongs etc
that would be upsetting to see your beloved swoopt on and taken away to nearby tree and get wacked against a branch a few times then devoured |  | |
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