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I got my BP last september. He was in quarantine on papertowels until the end of january. While he was in quaranzine, i deep froze every bag of substrate for at least 7 days and i baked every piece of wood. I cleaned non-natural material hides with hot water and vinegar.

How likely is it, that yesterday, i saw a mite on my snake? It was not full of blood yet so i have no idea what it was and my camera didnt focus on it. I killed it and lost it🙃

My tank has springtails and rollypolies. Some tiny spiders camp out there too feeding on the occasional fungus gnat…

There is an old post on this subreddit where the admin’s comment says a halogen must be on a dimming thermostat and is incompatible with an on/off thermostat. We have a lighting expert in a frog group who has just explained that we might be ridding our animals of any IRA by using a dimmer…

“Dimming thermostats: a halogen should not be placed on a dimming thermostat. A halogen capsule has a tungsten filament inside which reaches temps of 2000 degree F, this extreme temp is necessary to emit IRA. If the lamp is not allowed to receive full power meaning it is reduced by a dimming thermostat. Then ira is not emitting, defeating its purpose. And you will not receive the perceived power density goal. Again important to remember our animals don’t care what the temp of the air surrounding them is, they are concerned with the intensity of infrared radiation coming from the lamp/sun. This is how they thermoregulate”

This is what they said…

They also said “We don’t use thermostats in any of our enclosures (that’s 15 at the moment many different species 4 different biomes) and that bc we base our basking spots on intensity vs ambient air temp. Controlling basking zone based on air temp is a thing of the past.”

I want to prevent house fires and overheating of ghe enclosure but I want my snake to get IRA🙈

Anyone who has this terrarium or a similar PVC 4x2x2 please comment and lets discuss setting up our lightttssss🙈 my UV index from uvb mounted inside is too high and outside too low. I also need to keep the right distance from my halogens. Thank youuu

Hi everyone, ive been setting up my quarantine enclosure and ive noticed that when i put my 14% arcadia uvb on top pf the toxirium mesh, the basking spot has a UV index of 4-4.6. But i see many people mounting UVB on the inside. I tried it and it gave me at index of 23😂 what types of UVB bulbs do yall mount inside?? The 12% maybe?

Also, is the 4 ish index enough? I want the bulb 25cm above the basking spot but i was hoping for about a 6 UV index on basking. Then again i cant mount it inside and its the strongest UVB %🙈

I thought a uromastyx diet can follow the tortoise table, but tortoise table has Mint as “safe to feed”, meanwhile it contains camphor which is supposed to negatively affect liver. So it would be safer to avoid it. 🧐

Hi everyone, im deciding on a background color for my future uromastyx ornata. I know they fire up really nicely with their colours under the correct high heat. That is the most important thing. But some of my reptiles also have brighter colors on, lets say an example, a dark background and light colours on a light background. Is this a thing with uros?

Have you noticed that ornatas are more colorful on a yellow background vs. a red background, for example? Do we think this can contribute to their colors? If so, which color fires their colors up the best?

Hello :) it’s pretty tough to find a uromastyx breeder in your very own country unless youre in germany or the netherlands but my tiny country has one this year! He said that after hatching, the babies will stay with him for a month. I would really like a locally sources CB uro but 1 month seems so little… what do yall think?

Hello! We have reached over 500g so now we are moving to the 7% every 14-20 days mark in feeding schedule. If he is 511g rn, i will do a 36g rat? Thats what’s yall would do? Just checking :)

Ive only ever seen one video of breaking the pattern where instead of breaking it with chaotic sound, the pattern would just stop and there was a moment of silence. Do yall have more? :)

Where do yall place them? I dont wanna place them on the basking spot because my uro will lie on top of it and then it won’t work🙃

For my other animals ive got them on the walls….

My reptile room offers good temps for most of the year and its great to have all my animals in 1 room. During the heatwaves though, i have to move my crested gecko, gargoyle gecko and some of my frogs into my bedroom for a few days and I use quarantine tanks.
Most of my gecko’s favourite hides are built into their tanks and the tanks are heavy so I have to take the geckos out and put them into the quarantine tanks with spare plants and hides. It stresses them out.

Im thinking of moving them to my bedroom permanently… but the reptile room is better for them and i’d have to do a lot of changes. Plus my bedroom is a quarantine room, i would lose a quarantine room.

How bad would it be if I just kept spare tanks in my bedroom and only moved my geckos in for the hotter days and then put them back in the reptile room? Are they gonna care? They do seem to get super stressed out but chill out after a few minutes…

My snake has just crossed over 500g in under a year so i no longer feed every 7 days and i feed smaller feeders now. But he has JUST shed today and he is sooo hungry, im thinking of feeding him tomorrow. Maybe a smaller prey but i know shedding takes a lot of energy from him and he doesnt shed often so can i treat him tmw since he must be tired and hungry? Hes been begging for food since the late afternoon🙈we last fed previous wednesday