How to house your first snake.

[Wolflore]

Hi,

I'm new to the forum but just wanted to put in my two pence worth about RUBs and heat. We used to use them where I used to work and regularly filled them with boiling water to heat other plastic (polyurethane) pieces to reshape them. Not sure what temp heat mats actually reach at the top end, but I'm guessing less than 100 celsius?

[04mcurran]

hi looking to get a corn snake and this post was very helpful for me to see wat i need to do for my first vivarium thanks

[Boon]

Good advice. Thanks

[fuzzzzbuzzzz]

Originally Posted by kaz9t9

Great thread, really useful!

What size RUB would you house a hatchling corn in? I bought a 9l but im starting to think it might be a tad small? I dont have the snake yet but Im planning ahead

What size dimensions? I would say about 1ft long by about 1ft wide would so for a hatchling upto about 12 months old

[fuzzzzbuzzzz]

Can you still get the 20l at staples. Just checked on website that dont do them anymore. How much was the tub?

[tazmania]

Hi just brought a cron snake approx 5mth old, hes in a faunarium at present using a 100 w bulb with a habistat dimmer thermostat during the day and a heat mat at night ( inside my 3ft viv ), from what i have read i do not need the bulb, will burn snake when he moves into viv, in a wooden viv am i ok to place mat inside in the floor with aspen on top and will my habistat thermostat work with the heat mat?

also fed him a pinkie on fri but havnt seen any poop as yet???

[Skaterpunkdan]

anyone know how good of a size id need for leopard gecko 80L? lol dont have a clue as im a newbie

[kgrieve28]

i keep a great plains rrat snake the same way in a rub bt find that my mat is realy on due to the temp of my room . any sugestions on what i may be doing wrong. the air temp seams to be fine at aronnd 25 0c is this ok ?
i keep a royal i a viv bt dont pot my sensor on the mat itsef bt just above it should i change this
tanxs kev

[Flampam]

This is going to sound really stupid, but when I take temperatures in a RUB should I take it from the floor, or the air temperature in the RUB, I just wanna make sure everythings right when I finally get a snake.

[Saber]

This was a really helpful article and you clearly love your snakes and look after them well.

My only thing to suggest to new comers is to make sure that the height of a box is above 4 " as when a young snake is feeding it needs to lift its head up and its too restricted if the box has no depth. But then as you said high boxes probably suit only a few snakes and somewhere around 5.5" is a good height for many. (especially if someone sets up a drawer system and uses these type of boxes for that. ) There are a few species that like to cling to a branch all day and off the ground , so they would need a different set up. (So some of the answers depends on what species you are keeping. ) But for the snakes you are keeping you are doing some very nice tanks.