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I haven't posted anything in a long time, but I thought these photos of my snake testing the escape routes in her new tank would be interesting. Yup-they are escape artists indeed! Luckily I've weighted down the screen top. Maybe I should get her something to climb on :D

Hey all, My Vivarium Electronics probe is having a problem. The thermostat keeps making clicking sounds, and when it does the probe either reads at half the actual temperature or doesn't register any temperature at all. This is only for a second at a time, but it keeps recurring every 5...

When I hold my snake and she slithers through my fingers, I sometimes hear a popping noise like a knuckle cracking. I'm not sure what's causing it. The sound seems to come when she flexes at about the start of the lower third of her body, but I'm not sure. Is this something to worry about, or...

Lately, I've been thinking of buying some non-corn snakes, and I've really been interested in some desert-dwelling species: black mexican king, rosy boa, and kenyan sand boa. However, I live in a basement apartment in the swamp that is Washington, DC and the room gets pretty humid. I was...

I've been thinking of downgrading my hatchling Wiggington from her 30 gallon down to a 10 gallon*. Should I not feed/handle her for a week after the move as I did when I received her? Or is a move from one terrarium to the other in the same room just not as stressful, and I should go straight...

So how long do you have to handle a snake to make it tame? I ask because my snake is a real biter. This was just the 3rd day handling her (I fed her right afterwards, so I'm not handling her for two days anyway) but she was hissing, biting, and trying to get away from me (she succeeded too, but...

So, I have 3 ways of monitoring the temperature in my terrarium: A zoo med probe thermometer, a vivarium electronics V-100 thermostat with it's own probe, and an infrared 412L from Reptile Basics. To say I am getting inconsistent readings would be an understatement. When the V-100 reads 81, my...

After the last thread, I went back and redid the vivarium-this time getting a thermostat for the heater and a WHOLE bunch of extra driftwood to add 'clutter' so the snake knows how to hide. My dad has become as invested in the project as me-he built a screen for the top, which will be weighed...

Hello all, So this is the tank set-up I have. About 2 inches of aspen shavings as substrate, a warm hide, a cold hide, and a waterbowl and piece of driftwood between the two in a 12" by 36" terrarium. There's some aspen stuffed on the inside and at the entrances of the hides, to block out the...

Hello everybody! I'm a DC resident who recently got a 30 gallon (long) aquarium from my dad as a gift. He had no use for it but is just not the kind of guy to throw something away if he can find someone else who can use it, and he figured I could use a tank. Boy, he was right-I've always...