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- From: nathan@charles.ucdavis.edu (Nathan Rollins)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.herp
- Subject: Burmese python cage question/idea
- Summary: Double leveled?
- Message-ID: <20665@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 15:38:03 GMT
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- Organization: Department of Music, UCDavis
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- Originator: nathan@charles.ucdavis.edu
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- Happy herpy New Year!
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- It's time to build a cage for my Burmese python, and in addition to
- the usual size requirements, I also need for the cage to 1. have a water
- container big enough for the snake to soak in (very dry up here),
- 2. Be very sturdy and stable (in case of earthquakes).
- Because a water container that big will have to take up so much of the
- space in the cage, I was wondering; if you made the cage "two-leveled",
- like a cabinet with 2 shelves and a hole in the top shelf so that the snake
- could climb "upstairs", could you thus possibly double the ammount of
- surface area the snake would have to live on, or would a Burmese never
- bother to climb up into this higher level?
- If it would, of course, you'd still have to put the snake into a different
- cage as it approached full-growth (I don't know how many woodworkers I'd trust
- to build a shelf that could support almost 200 lbs of snake).
- Also, is it just me, or does anyone else have a Burmese that doesn't
- defecate very often? I give her baths etc, but nothing... she acts healthy
- though.
-
- -Otter not Nathan
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