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- From: pholland@iastate.edu (Paul J Hollander)
- Subject: Re: The Makeup of A Snake's Housing...
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <mpease.06n1@dream.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> <1992Dec27.200038.26545@siemens.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:10:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.200038.26545@siemens.com> aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
- >>Tell he seems to like it. But most of the Snake-enthusaists that I have met
- >>Seem to think that an Aquariums are poor and Cages are better... Is this true?
- >
- >The usual concern is for ventilation.
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- And heat loss; all the warm air goes stright up through those terrible nose
- abrading commercial screen wire tops.
-
- And snakes feel terribly exposed with all that glass putting them in plain
- view. But with a pegboard top, newspaper on the floor, a hiding box, and
- cardboard around the back and sides, aquariums aren't too bad for snakes up
- to around four feet long.
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- Aquariums larger than a 20 gallon long aquarium are getting too tall, too
- narrow, and too breakable. I don't know how the prices compare. IMHO, if
- you want a cage with more than 3 square feet of floor, you don't want an
- aquarium. You want a wooden or fiberglass cage.
-
- Paul Hollander pholland@iastate.edu
- Behold the tortoise: he makes no progress unless he sticks his neck out.
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