Hi everyone.
Both my partner and myself are huge snake fans and have for the last 5+ years we have been saying we want a snake one day.
Well after a bit of research my partner and I are looking at getting our first pet snake this year. But we are a bit unsure on a few things so I thought I'd ask here.
We are looking at a Stimson python at this stage as we have heard they are one of the smaller pythons and have a good attitude for beginners. We also know a few reputable and legal places in our region that sells them. From what I have found they are also available in a Cat 3 license.
We are now onto looking at organizing habitat. We were origionally under the impression we need a full glass terrarium, but some Googling and browsing on here I have noticed so people use adapted tubs.
My biggest concern is we are in a cool region of WA and we would hate for it to get to cold due to me being a cheap skate. We will of course have a heat pad for it, do people think a tub would be ok?
Maybe I AM being a cheep skate but the price difference between a tub and glass is big enough that if I can save i'd love to
We have already got a few options to source food, substrate and all the other smaller supplies. We also have the Application for a cat 3 license almost ready to go once we know we have everything sorted.
I hope we are on the right track and would love some feed back before we make the big leap.
If we have got that wrong at all let us know this is not something we want to rush into.
Both my partner and myself are huge snake fans and have for the last 5+ years we have been saying we want a snake one day.
Well after a bit of research my partner and I are looking at getting our first pet snake this year. But we are a bit unsure on a few things so I thought I'd ask here.
We are looking at a Stimson python at this stage as we have heard they are one of the smaller pythons and have a good attitude for beginners. We also know a few reputable and legal places in our region that sells them. From what I have found they are also available in a Cat 3 license.
We are now onto looking at organizing habitat. We were origionally under the impression we need a full glass terrarium, but some Googling and browsing on here I have noticed so people use adapted tubs.
My biggest concern is we are in a cool region of WA and we would hate for it to get to cold due to me being a cheap skate. We will of course have a heat pad for it, do people think a tub would be ok?
Maybe I AM being a cheep skate but the price difference between a tub and glass is big enough that if I can save i'd love to
We have already got a few options to source food, substrate and all the other smaller supplies. We also have the Application for a cat 3 license almost ready to go once we know we have everything sorted.
I hope we are on the right track and would love some feed back before we make the big leap.
If we have got that wrong at all let us know
this is not something we want to rush into.
