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[lstratton]

Hi there,
I am new and have just posted on the chameleon section as I'm actively researching then and brb's as they are the 2 reptiles that I have wanted for a long long time.
My questions are:
I want to be getting a young snake, so that it gets used to me and I'd rather not get one from a petshop as you can never know how it arrived there and what they went through. So are their any brb breeders out there that are relatively close to London?
Also would I be able to put one in an exoterra glass viv with mesh top, size of 60x45x60cm? If so, how long would one be able to live in this happily before I upgrade to a full size viv of around 4x2x2ft (seems to be the recommended size?
Thankyou

Lucy

[lol93]

Hi Lucy,

A baby BRB is generally around 30 cm long, and will live happily in a shoebox sized contico or Really Useful box for the first few months of its life. The advantage in using the plastic box is that you can keep the humidity high, whereas a mesh topped Exo Terra will never maintain the correct humidity for a BRB. I kept mine in small conticos as babies, with paper towel as a substrate and a sphagnum moss humid hide at one end. As they grew, I moved them into bigger and bigger plastic boxes, and they're now in 4' Pennine vivs, which also retain a decent level of humidity.

There's a basic caresheet here:http://www.captivebred.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11993
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