Ball Python Care - Humidity
It was impartial the other day when I found myself in line, ready to pay for my cat food, as I overheard an employee of the store order a customer, "A fish tank is what you preserve your Ball Python in". If you're like I once was, you trusted that employee and went home with the fish tank and light bulbs that you were 'supposed to buy'. From that day forward, I honest assumed my snake loved all the initiate situation.
Today I'll be talking about taking care of your Ball Python in a fish tank vs. an enclosure which has specifically been designed for Ball Pythons. The first plight that I noticed when my female snake was in her fish tank was her dreadful shedding. Why wouldn't my Ball Pythons skin drop off? She'd lost some in the middle, but the rest of her body unexcited has obsolete skin on it. Or perhaps the ever so celebrated, "My snake's ogle caps haven't fallen off. How do I pick them? " Simple. The quandary is that you are keeping your snake in the unfriendly type of enclosure.
A Ball Python requires a daily relative humidity (RH) of roughly 55%. This number sounds simple. "How hard could that be? " I concept. Well, when I realized 55%RH meant I would have to spray down my enclosure twice a day, 7 days a week, I realized that a fish tank was not made for a Ball Python. Getting to 55%RH was hard, but eventually I found out that during the shed cycle (Which we'll talk about in 2 weeks) the humidity needs to be even higher, 60%RH-70%RH! I found myself walking up and down the stairs all day spraying it down. The moisture impartial evaporates out the top of the fishtank so posthaste when the air is so hot because of the bulb. In the suitable reptile enclosure for this type of snake, you would only need to spray down your enclosure once every 4 days*. This allows you to exhaust more time enjoying your pet Ball Python. Your snake will shed all of its skin from the tip of its nose all the procedure down through its body with 85% less work for you!
Now, if your snake's observe caps are stuck on, or you have to pull its skin off during a abominable shed, it is most likely because your snake is in an enclosure with puny to no humidity. Rather than being concerned with removing the contemplate caps/skin (which stresses the snake out and is unnecessary), you should be more concerned with raising the humidity. My advice is always to sustain your snake in a Ball Python Enclosure. You wouldn't maintain your reptile in a bird cage, so why would you retain it in a fish tank? (TM)
For more information on humidity inspect the video HERE
*(This may vary depending on the climate and room conditions where you house the enclosure)
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