Heat Questions

Thanks for the info, I appericate it.

 

What should the humidity be at?
And I use apen shavings, if the aspen gets wet or even damp, isn't that not good? (respitory problems)
There is a dish of water in the enclosure at all times, is that enough?

 

Humidity should be at about 60% (so I'm told). I use aspen shavings as well. If you just spray the tank sides, and not the shavings or anything else in the tank, that should be ok. It works really well. And having a big water dish full of warm water helps as well. For me, I find that keeping the humidity up in my corns tank is difficult so I have to do all that I can. Even putting a box with damp moss inside that your snake can crawl into as he wishes helps. Especially during shedding time.

 

Our water dish is slightly on the heat pad so it evaporates faster than it would normally. She had a drink out of it last night after we handled her, this a sign of low humidity or just she was thirsty?

 

Snakes will drink water. That's why fresh is needed daily.

 

You should put the water dish on the cool side if possible. If water ever spills on the heat pad, this will produce heat cracks.

 

The water dish is right on the bottom of the tank so she can't get under it. I have a huge rock hide on the cool side (everywhere else it was getting 110 degrees inside it). So mist the sides and hides, and a moist hide......I'll try to fit another hide in.

Do corns have a problem with getting respitory problems?

 

They can get respitory problems, yeah. Just be careful. You don't need to over mist the tank. Just a couple sprays at most. Sometimes the snake will lick the droplets from the tank sides. Lol mine did the other night. It was so cute.

 

Ok, Thank You very much!
I placed a damp paper towel on top of one of the rock hides - just for now, and shes going to shed so I am hoping that goes all right.

I have seen my geckos drink water droplets. It's cute when they lick it from their nose. I have only seen the snake drink water from the bowl. I went to place her down and she went to the water dish and drank while hanging from my hand. It was funny, I could actually see her gulping it down.

 

When I mist my cage, sometimes water droplets gather on the scales of my snakes; a few times my snakes have drank the water droplets right off of each other.

 

Off each other? You house them together?

 

Yes, I house two of my snakes in one cage (a large 175 gallon one) and another one is his own cage. I know you're gonna jump all over that and say "you can't house two snakes in the same enclosure, it's bad for the snakes", but I talked directly to Kathy Love about it and several other breeders who all said it was safe to do so. The two that are housed together were introduced to each other slowly, safely, and over a period of time and I knew what I was doing. I observe them constantly to watch for any signs of stress or any signs that they may not be enjoying each other's company. I know what I'm doing with them and I wouldn't have housed them together if I wasn't 100% confident in what I was doing. So, although you may disagree with it, I did my homework first and made an educated decision.

 

Cool are they both females? Corns? What morphs?

 

No, one is a male and one is a female. The female is a charcol and the male is a sunglow. And yeah, all three of my snakes are corns.

 

Oooh a sunglow. Pretty...

 

My third one is a 11 month old Okeetee. The Sunglow (male) is about 4 years old and the Charcol (female) is about 2 and a half. I used to have a female Ghost, but I traded her for the Sunglow. On the 27th of August I'm getting a female Snow hatchling and I'm thinking about getting 2 more females, but I'm not sure what morph yet.

 

Wow that's pretty cool. I have a 7yr old Okeetee. Aren't they beautiful? My next one I want to be a motley sunglow or a miami.

 

back to original thread {heat question} my corn doesnt have aheat mat anymore at all. the home is on top of my big a$$ iggy viv where it is warm all day, and has no problems as far as i can tell. temp is steady in the middle at around 75f. no hot/cool sides at all.

 

Thats not good I don't think....why doesn't he have a heat mat? They should have a hot and cool side so they can choose. Hot side should be about 85F and the cool side should be 75F. Thereabouts.

 

I agree. Your snake should have an option of a cooler side or warmer side in order to properly thermoregulate. While he may appear fine to you, you can't know what's going on internally. You can't physically observe stress in your snake. He may look quite content to you, but he may be very unhappy. I'd take him off the other cage and give him a heat mat. With no opportunity to choose to go to a warmer side, he may have difficulties digesting his food properly.