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Yeaaaaaaaaaaah I lost a great tank because the loving 20 pound cat slept on the screen lid.
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Re: tank lids I made a sturdy cheapo lid from the bargain bin odd lengths of plywood from the farm supply store and some carpenters cloth. A good investment imo
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well, i am getting BTS(yearling Iriana Jaya) on tuesday or thursday. I have all the info i need but my only question is how do i keep the humidity up. everything says uses cypris bedding and moss interior hides and just use a mist bottle. is that correct?
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Dapper_Swindler posted:well, i am getting BTS(yearling Iriana Jaya) on tuesday or thursday. I have all the info i need but my only question is how do i keep the humidity up. everything says uses cypris bedding and moss interior hides and just use a mist bottle. is that correct? Yup. Get a decent hygrometer and do a manual misting every day or so when you do your other routine poo poo. If you decide that you want an electronic mister down the road there are lots of options.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Yup. Get a decent hygrometer and do a manual misting every day or so when you do your other routine poo poo. If you decide that you want an electronic mister down the road there are lots of options. cool. i already mist my frogs/toads a bunch. so is cypris the best substraight for that. i know it has to be at least 3 inch deep. i am just reconfirming what i read because i want it to thrive. also manual or digital for hygrometer. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Aug 26, 2018 |
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Aug 26, 2018 02:51
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Dapper_Swindler posted:also manual or digital for hygrometer. Whatever is the most accurate/easy to use/durable/aesthetic within your budget. I currently have two aquatic turtles and that’s it so I’m out of the loop as far as specific gear recommendations for terrestrial herps are concerned. I’m sure there are plenty of easily accessible opinions and recommendations though. Also, we talked ITT in the past about good herp youtubers/educators. Don’t be afraid of shooting somebody like Dan Carter or Clint an email/tweet/PM asking for tips or gear recs. I think both of those dudes have very happy skinks. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Aug 26, 2018 |
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After nearly a decade of desperately wanting to get a boa again, and spending the last year looking around, today I was finally able to secure my dream snake - a Tarahumara mountain boa. I'm so excited I had to share it somewhere, and I'll probably be popping in here now and again with questions and updates since it's been about a decade since my last herp. I'm finalizing all the stuff now, here's the little guy I'm hoping to get: I won't be having him shipped for a couple of weeks yet, to give me time to get an enclosure all set up and thoroughly tested. I'm planning on temporarily doing a tub setup until I can get the time and money to either build something myself, or maybe buy an AP enclosure. I've never done a tub setup before though, anyone have any experience with that and any tips or things I should know? My big concern right now is coming up with a way to secure the lid strongly enough that there'll be no chance of escape. I'm all too familiar with dealing with escaped snakes, I don't want to leave any chance of that happening.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Whatever is the most accurate/easy to use/durable/aesthetic within your budget. I currently have two aquatic turtles and that’s it so I’m out of the loop as far as specific gear recommendations for terrestrial herps are concerned. I’m sure there are plenty of easily accessible opinions and recommendations though. yeah, i have been reading/watching/talking to the reptile moutain guy(he does mostly skink stuff) and he has given me great pointers. i'll try to post pictures of the little guy when i get him.
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Peachy Poo posted:After nearly a decade of desperately wanting to get a boa again, and spending the last year looking around, today I was finally able to secure my dream snake - a Tarahumara mountain boa. I'm so excited I had to share it somewhere, and I'll probably be popping in here now and again with questions and updates since it's been about a decade since my last herp. I'm finalizing all the stuff now, here's the little guy I'm hoping to get: Cool boa! I have kept carpets in tubs and some velcro between the tub and lid helped keep it secure. That or get it into a rack-like situation with an immovable shelf above the tub. I have also done one where I drilled holes through the top and tub and secured it with screws and wing nuts but that was a pain to open. Congrats on the boa. I just got my first last year and he is awesome. He is a hypo bci het Kahl and the chillest snake I have ever owned.
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HungryMedusa posted:Cool boa! I have kept carpets in tubs and some velcro between the tub and lid helped keep it secure. That or get it into a rack-like situation with an immovable shelf above the tub. I have also done one where I drilled holes through the top and tub and secured it with screws and wing nuts but that was a pain to open. Velcro sounds like a perfect idea that never would've occurred to me. That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks! And yeah, boas are great. My dad and I kept a lot of herps growing up, but our bci was always far and away my favorite. Just a lot of fun to handle, and incredibly chill too. These are a dwarf locality, so I'm excited to be getting that boa personality without all the headache of an 8 foot snake. Glad you're so happy with yours, I'm always excited to see more people get passionate about my favorite animal!
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right. got the little guy home. he looks like he is about a year old if that. his bedding/substrait is care fresh with spaghanum moss on top, he has 2 hides(one severs as basking spot) and a big water bowl and small food one. he/she is currently hiding under his basking hide which is normal because its new place a bigger cage. he is a little huffy but not bittey. the light is 150 wat and with a smaller uvb next to it. the basking spot is only 87 which worries me and i have only gotten the humitdy to 60. what should i do.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:right. got the little guy home. he looks like he is about a year old if that. his bedding/substrait is care fresh with spaghanum moss on top, he has 2 hides(one severs as basking spot) and a big water bowl and small food one. he/she is currently hiding under his basking hide which is normal because its new place a bigger cage. he is a little huffy but not bittey. the light is 150 wat and with a smaller uvb next to it. the basking spot is only 87 which worries me and i have only gotten the humitdy to 60. what should i do. everything is better now. i am gonna put moss in small water bowl and see if that helps. poor little thing is still shy. i am gonna have to raise his cage better. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Aug 29, 2018 |
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Being the dumbest motherfucker alive means I can be wildly entertained by some of the dumbest creatures on this planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLcJHQLcOjc
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Owlbear Camus posted:Being the dumbest motherfucker alive means I can be wildly entertained by some of the dumbest creatures on this planet. the beardies don't seem that dumb. arnt they decently smart for animals.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:the beardies don't seem that dumb. arnt they decently smart for animals. I mean it only with the greatest of affection. The little dipshits are adorable.
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Owlbear Camus posted:I mean it only with the greatest of affection. The little dipshits are adorable. yeah, my girlfriends beardies are cute. the one just sites on my shoulder for hours.
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Hello, I was chomped by the ball python yesterday because his defrosted rat wasn't as warm as my hand. Even the sweetest boys can make some very toothy mistakes! I don't hold it against him, that thing should have been run under some hot water.
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One of my corns struck my finger instead of the mouse the other day. She got it at the correct angle to immediately try and swallow my finger. That was fun. A little running water got her to let go without me having to fight her.
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When your leopard gecko grabs onto your finger and you just have to sit there and wait while he keeps trying to bite harder and swallow...
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Dapper_Swindler posted:the beardies don't seem that dumb. arnt they decently smart for animals. Unless you’re talking monitor lizards most reptiles are quite a bit dumber than the rodents that are raised as reptile chow.
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Not gonna lie, I'm surprised by how much smarter my beardie is than I expected. Little fucker knows what live food I keep in what container, which is adorable. I figured at best he would know that the tongs meant food.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Unless you’re talking monitor lizards most reptiles are quite a bit dumber than the rodents that are raised as reptile chow. true. but my frogs have learned when its cricket time and the one tries to bite my hand/cricket depositor. its not really smarts but its cute.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:true. but my frogs have learned when its cricket time and the one tries to bite my hand/cricket depositor. its not really smarts but its cute. They're smart enough to figure out we're giant heat rocks that dispense food.
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Owlbear Camus posted:Being the dumbest motherfucker alive means I can be wildly entertained by some of the dumbest creatures on this planet.
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Ha. There is a bit of a scramble at first, but once they are in lazychomps "just grab them when they hop by" mode they kind of remind me of hungry hungy hippos.
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Cless Alvein posted:They're smart enough to figure out we're giant heat rocks that dispense food. mine view me as giant tree that produces buggos to eat and things to eat and poop on. its overly anthropomorphic but i swear my one frog just looked me straight in the eyes and then just pushed out a giant poo poo all the while never breaking eye contact. then he leaped on me. so i got Stannis the skink's tank all worked out(had to redo the bedding completely) when he hit the new bedding he buried himself and i havent seen him since. still buried. all the forums say its what new skinks do alot and i shouldn't worry, but i am making sure.
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While not reptiles, my axolotls do seem to recognize when someone goes near the tank and instantly assume the feed me position.
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Whenever I pick up their crickets I see all the interesting models of beardie and I kind of wish my beardies were the smoother, cuter less pointy-pokey morphs, but I love them all the same as their adoptive lizard dad.
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Owlbear Camus posted:Whenever I pick up their crickets I see all the interesting models of beardie and I kind of wish my beardies were the smoother, cuter less pointy-pokey morphs, but I love them all the same as their adoptive lizard dad. This is the moment. Yes, lean into it. This where you pick up a metal shelving unit and start adding enclosures. This is where it goes from being some pets you adopted to a goddamn lifestyle.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:This is the moment. Yes, lean into it. This where you pick up a metal shelving unit and start adding enclosures. This is where it goes from being some pets you adopted to a goddamn lifestyle. I am fighting to be "a guy who owns a couple lizards" instead of "a lizard guy" My admittedly morbid thought was when I start over in 9 years or however much longer these guys last I'll get a different morph or two to take over in the enclosure. Maybe it will be haunted by lizard ghosts of the previous generation. I am giving some thought to incubating a single lil egg for friends who requested rather than exercising Lady Onyxia's right to choose on all of them next time she shits out a clutch. But I'm also not going to start breeding them in earnest. From what I've read hatchings basically means "Mountains of crickets are now your life." Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Sep 1, 2018 |
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I have anxiety dreams where I go into my snake room, and each enclosure has like 6 snakes in it of all kinds of mixed species. I usually find snakes I haven't owned for years all skinny and small and feel terrible. Once I found a turtle mixed in. I am down to 5 snakes of 4 different species now down from 23 when I had carpet python hatchlings. It is fun to breed, and where I am there is a healthy market for them, I just can't have that many animals all the time. I do start dreaming of adding a female boa, then I see someone on facebook have a clutch of 43 and hold myself back. I get wanting all the morphs for sure.
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Few things feel worse when owning a snake than when they want another mouse (the rats are too large to feed right now and no babies yet) but I can't give them just one more because I fed out all the feeders when the colony crashed and the rats had issues and the ball python just STARES AT ME. And then when I cave in and give her a mouse she ignores it, or does the defensive strike. edit: our blue eyed lucy male ball, named Axolotl, mostly because when we got him, it was also the only time I had ever seen axies at a herp show, but they looked terrible, is so loving chill. I love the little bastard. Even if he brought snake mites in.
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HungryMedusa posted:I have anxiety dreams where I go into my snake room, and each enclosure has like 6 snakes in it of all kinds of mixed species. I usually find snakes I haven't owned for years all skinny and small and feel terrible. Once I found a turtle mixed in. I have that dream too! You open the tank and realize in horror that you bought half a dozen new snakes a year ago, and you've forgotten. I also have a reoccurring one where a snake breaks in half and forms a new one, and all of a sudden I have twice as many to take care of. That one's a little weirder.
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hyperhazard posted:I have that dream too! You open the tank and realize in horror that you bought half a dozen new snakes a year ago, and you've forgotten
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Ha holy poo poo, I'm glad it's not just me. I did have one particularly good dream where the extra snakes were neon pink and blue green tree pythons. That was a disappointing awakening. I haven't had the one splits into two yet.
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 I also have a reoccuring nightmare where I'm trying to save my reptiles from a fire, but sometimes there's not enough time to grab them all and I have to choose which ones to save. 
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Samila posted:
gently caress that noise. if there ever was a fire in my house I'd probably just stay put, because gently caress it, I could never get HALF my pets out, let alone the feeders and all my fish. I have had the zombie dream where I have to let all the animals go to try and give them a fighting chance.
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