hey all,
I'm looking into having a stack made and I was wondering if anyone could tell me if there are any complications involved in maintaining continuously high humidities in wooden vivs? and if there are, are there any kind of treatments you could use to prevent them that are safe and effective?
cheers

You could run some silicon in the edges, just to help a little

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that makes sense, cheers! I dont want to be forking out lotsa ££ and then having the viv becomed bowed/blistered etc. I have been looking at vivbuilder.co.uk, anybody got any experiece with them, or know anyone better?

Dont use vivbuilder.co.uk, some people have had some bad experiences with them.

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A few suggestions would be;

1 Avoid wood and use plastic vivs.

2 Fix sheets of glass/perspex to the inside of the viv and then silicone over these (just siliconing over the wood wont work long term). You're then effectively creating a glass/plastic viv within a wooded shell.

3 Buy sticky back plastic sheets from B&Q (comes on a roll and is marketed as "Fablon" I think). Use this to "wallpaper" the inside of the viv and then silicone over the gaps where wall meets floor etc.


Incidently, what species are we talking about here? Most reptiles would not be at their best given a constant level of high humidity.

cheers

Stuart

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I keep Green Tree Pythons, Emerald Tree Boas, Black-Head Pythons, Woma Pythons, Irian Jaya Pythons, Royal Pythons, Leopard Geckos and dart frogs.

perhaps you may be able to help Stuart, the species is a White lipped python - and the limited info I have been able to find suggests that they need levels of upto 75% most of the time, perhaps even higher when in shed?

see this thread - waterproofing

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Useful, cheers!

I've never kept them but if I did I would probably keep them much like my chondros in that I'd try and provide a humidity cycle rather than constant high humidity.

The problem with trying to exactly duplicate natural humidity levels in a vivarium is that these don't factor in the natural airflow (breeze) that you get in the wild. Chondros and WLP's come from a part of the world that has very high and more or less constant humidity levels, but the wind keeps the air moving. Try to duplicate these high and constant humidity levels in a wooden box (your viv) without this natural flow of air and all sorts of nasties will start growing which will probably result in a poorly snake. By providing a humidity cycle you have a drying out period which will make it harder for molds etc to take hold in the viv.

Like I say, I've never kept them and I haven't researched them in any great detail before, but thats priobably how I'd go about things.

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I had white lips and i kept mine in a penine viv and used to spay her once mornin and once evening if ur having white lipped pythons and are serious bout them get a plastic viv cause after u have sprayed them as much as they need. Ur new viv that u just layed out for will blow