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Full-time Nesting Box?

outfishin7

outfishin7

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Is it ok to have a box with damp moss in a viv all the time? The 2 adults that i most recently acquired and have not yet separated both love the box i placed in their tank. Previous owner said she's an active egg-layer, he just threw the eggs out whenever he saw them. So I made her a box so she'd have a nice place to lay her eggs. But her mate keeps squeezing himself in there too. Should I just make him his own box? Is there any harm in letting each of my snakes have one even if they're not about to lay eggs?
 
OK, co-habbing - you maybe need to do a search.

Secondly, males in with gravid females will be a pest - you at least need to separate them until she's laid and recovered.

Secondly, yes, sitting in a humid laying box full-time runs the risk of scale rot (as I've found out, to my cost). If the female needs it as she's gravid, then leave it in. But take the male out or he could end up with a health issue.
 
Thank you. I've read many of the debates on the co-habbing thing. One of them may need to go into a sweater box until i sort out more viv space. I don't want to deal with scale rot- so no matter how happy they seen digging in the stuff(and it's funny watching a 805 gram snake stuff himself into a little box!), no box for him!
 
outfishin7 said:
Cool! Same type box but with unmoistened moss?
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That sounds like a good plan to me. I've been breeding my two adults for the first time this year. I put in a lay box, just in case. Next thing I knew, I thought the male had escaped, since I left them together over night to mate. I began to have a panic attack, until my (always calm) boyfriend came over and told me to look in the moss. I thought, "You have got to be kidding me. There's no way." But there he was, completely emerged in the moss, with not a speck of orange showing. I've since removed him (of course.) I've also had them together to breed once more, but the female didn't seem to want to have anything to do with him; just dig herself into her "nest" and poke her head out all day long. Hopefully this means that's she's gravid.
Apparently this is the new favorite hide, none the less. If it turns out she's not expecting, I'll probably end up drying it out and leaving it in there since she seems to enjoy it so much.
Good luck to you.
 
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