BiteAndSqueeze
Active Member
This stuff has probably been done to death before but I only joined the site yesterday. I read with interest the discussion initiated by The Rock about diamonds but this seems to be specifically directed to diamonds.
I have converted a large fish tank to take my snakes which I just got 2 weeks ago. 1 Jungle about 6 months old and 1 centralian about 1 yr old. They seem to get along fine together and often curl up together.
I was advised that the glass would lose too much heat and keeping the temp up would be a problem. I have therefore put 2 under tank heaters in the middle figuring that the hot air will rise and heat the tank. I found that it took 24 hours for the heaters to get up to temp. At the moment I have no thermostats. I leave the under tank heaters on 24/7 and I also have overhead lighting. I use stronger light during the day and blue lights at night.
The tank is a jungle set up with artifical plants, a pond, a waterfall and tree branches.
I've got a dual sensor thermometer. The temp in the tank ranges from around 22 - 28 however the gravel above the heat mats gets pretty hot. The snakes don't seem to like the hot gravel and stay away from it. The snakes seem to either curl up in the fork of the tree branch which is halfway up the tank and above the heat mats (so above the rising hot air) or on top of a rock which is above the heat mats (which doesn't get as hot as the gravel) or on the gravel under a log to the side of the heat mats where it is probably still warm, but not hot.
There are certainly cooler areas in the tank they can go to if they want (and also a pond they can completely immerse in) but they seem to choose not to.
As a presentation, the tank works well because instead of hiding all the time, the snakes are often well presented in the forks of branches etc.
My question is- Given that they can stay warm all the time if they want, am I doing the right thing? Will they become accustomed to always being warm and will this harm them? Should I turn the heat down at night and force them to be cooler?
I have converted a large fish tank to take my snakes which I just got 2 weeks ago. 1 Jungle about 6 months old and 1 centralian about 1 yr old. They seem to get along fine together and often curl up together.
I was advised that the glass would lose too much heat and keeping the temp up would be a problem. I have therefore put 2 under tank heaters in the middle figuring that the hot air will rise and heat the tank. I found that it took 24 hours for the heaters to get up to temp. At the moment I have no thermostats. I leave the under tank heaters on 24/7 and I also have overhead lighting. I use stronger light during the day and blue lights at night.
The tank is a jungle set up with artifical plants, a pond, a waterfall and tree branches.
I've got a dual sensor thermometer. The temp in the tank ranges from around 22 - 28 however the gravel above the heat mats gets pretty hot. The snakes don't seem to like the hot gravel and stay away from it. The snakes seem to either curl up in the fork of the tree branch which is halfway up the tank and above the heat mats (so above the rising hot air) or on top of a rock which is above the heat mats (which doesn't get as hot as the gravel) or on the gravel under a log to the side of the heat mats where it is probably still warm, but not hot.
There are certainly cooler areas in the tank they can go to if they want (and also a pond they can completely immerse in) but they seem to choose not to.
As a presentation, the tank works well because instead of hiding all the time, the snakes are often well presented in the forks of branches etc.
My question is- Given that they can stay warm all the time if they want, am I doing the right thing? Will they become accustomed to always being warm and will this harm them? Should I turn the heat down at night and force them to be cooler?
eh duga!! :lol: ) but this following is the teeny tiny bit of info I have learned: (I have just recently bought my second python by the way)
