glad to see you've come on this site, plenty to read and post questions about
also just a question because ive met a few canadians here who are suprised that we live near the ocean and we have cities and dont live in towns in the outback. one also told me he thought we rode on kangaroos, he was serious too.
what were your thoughts on australia, about how everything was here
cheers
What?? It sounds like you had some thick Canadians ambling about...
I live on an Island off the West Coast of Canada, so living "near" the ocean is nothing unusual to me.
I'm not saying this because I'm on an Aussie-centric forum and trying to kiss ***, but I'm actually a long-time fan of Australia and aussie things. It seems to have just come up coincidentally because I'm a big fan of lots of aussie racers (I'm a racing fanatic). I support Casey Stoner on the bikes, I have been cheering for Webber since he was driving pieces of crap ten years ago. I cheered for Aus in the world cup because Canada sucks too much to get there, and Aus is one of the few countries in the world I would really care to travel to and spend a lot of time in (alongside Finland and Japan, though not these days...).
I'm also a big fan of the V8 series. I like Frosty and am a fan of Russ Ingall, but my #1 driver is still Van Gisbergen the Kiwi because he races on the same online racing service as me.
I'm no anthropologist, bu I'm familiar with *general* knowledge.
I know who Ned Kelly is.
I know what Ayer's rock is.
I know that kangaroos are basically vermin there. I could point to Bathurst NSW on an unmarked globe.
I've seen the film The Proposition.
I know that you're one of few countries with as much of a mixed culture as ours.
Also, to mess with local people, I try to use the phrase 'fair dinkum' in conversation occasionally.
I tried to come up with an aussie-themed name for my Bredli but it was tough to come up with something punny. Slick Doohan was a top runner for a while, and then Gary (for Gary McCoy), but I think I'm going to settle on Darwin in tribute to the great evolutionary biologist.
Bredli love climbing/vertical enclosures and its my experience that they are a snake of extremes "most/99% love a basking area of 35c/95f and a cool zone of 22c/72f plus keep in mind most attain a length of 2.4meters/8ft. plus weigh 8kg/16-18lbs.....solar 17 (Baden)
Thanks for the numbers.
I did lots of research before I made the commitment to take in this breed of snake. I've spent four years without issues keeping the BP and want more of a challenge. As it is, my male Bredli is 5 years and basically fully grown at around or just over 5 feet and 6lbs.
I had his enclosure set up a week before I brought him home and have been tweaking the thermostat settings to achieve optimal temp ranges before I picked him up. I have him in a good sized enclosure with cross-beam perches and an overheat radiant heat panel controlled by a thermostat with a probe on the perch. I am currently running the enclosure 33C at the perch and 27C on the cool area down below where I have a cave setup. I can't really get any lower than 25-26C lows at night because that's just the ambient temperature here at this time of year and, really, any time indoors. It may go as low as 23-24 during our winter season, but I may try increasing his hot spot to 35C to see if he seems move to it more. It's still too early to tell what his preferences will be like because he's just been moved recently and I won't expect him to be acting 'at home' for a week or two yet.
Further out of the shot is where his covered hide is. It's a 4x2x2 pvc enclosure.
