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celticwoman I'm new here...
Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 1
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:07 am Post subject: Refused a snake |
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Hi,
I am relatively new to snake keeping, I have an 05 het lavender 0.1 and went out today to get myself another.
She was a beauty, a ghost (well I say she, they wouldn't probe it DOB July 05, said it was too young) but before buying her/him, they asked some questions, like what housing I was intending to use.
The corn was about 14 inches and I was going to put it into a contico until my birthday in March....that was pretty much as far as I got, she refused to sell me the snake after that.
I have read Kathy and Bill Love's book twice (lol) and been to every website on corns I could in the past few months and thought a contico was standard for alot of people, especially for young uns.
Please can you tell me how you keep yours?
I did stress that I intended to get a viv with the whole caboodle soon and that I would maintain a temperature gradient as I do for my other one, but she said in a contico I could have a spider, scorpion but not a young corn etc etc...I didn't want them.....
The thing that got me was the shop had the corn in a plastic box (suspiciously like an ice cream container (about 8 inches square and 4 inches high) in a viv stacked with about 30 others heated by a heat bulb which offered no temperature gradient for the individual boxes.
How embarrassed was I?
I admire their conscientous sellling policy, but I seriously thought a contico would be ok for the next two months (it is 16 inches by 11 inches by 6 inches). Is everything I have read wrong or am I just not getting it (not wholly impossible (LOL))
Do any of you use conticos? (like I said in March I will get the best viv I can afford!LOL) |
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claireburniston Contributing Member
Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 83 Location: Middlesbrough
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Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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i know this thread is a bit old, but i thought i would reply anyway.
I keep my '05 corn hatchlings in conticos. These are heated by a heat mat connected to a pulse stat.
They have kitchen roll as substrate and a kitchen roll tube cut in half as a long hide, which runs the length of the box, so they can thermoregulate.
A water bowl is provided too.
Corn snakes can happily live in conticos, and then be moved into a viv when they grow, or some people choose to keep them in larger conticos once adults.
I personally do not think its a good idea to keep a hatchling in a large viv, most snakes would get stressed, and may not feed. Also there is the issue of escaping, hatchlings can easily fit through the gap between sliding glass doors. |
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Scott W Site Admin
Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 13355 Location: London, England.
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:45 am Post subject: |
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did seem a bit strange to refuse you on that _________________
Please DO NOT pm orders for reptiles, send email instead scott@captivebred.co.uk |
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kelly41 I'm new here...
Joined: 08 Oct 2005 Posts: 14
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Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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i think i know who your talking about (Birmingham right?) its not that she wants you to put a hatchling in a big viv she just doesnt like heat mats being used for corns (personal reasons) so likes all of hers to go into tubs inside a viv
shes a really nice woman when you get to know her and her stock is very good but she has strong views on heat mats |
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