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martinking6
Hatchling

United Kingdom
152 Posts

Posted - 26/12/2010 :  18:31:56  Show Profile  Click to see martinking6's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Hiya

In a sense of planning for the future what size vivarium is ideal and can you have too big a vivarium for a fully grown brazilian rainbow boa ?

I have read plenty of articles stating the importance of not going too big vivarium wise for the python as it is growing but have come across nothing about when fully grown ?

Martin

Got a lovely royal python called earl, 2 brazilian rainbow boas called zeus and hera, a red tail cross boa constrictor called dorris and an albino burmese python called angel as well :-)

prozacbear
Snake mite

United Kingdom
35 Posts

Posted - 27/12/2010 :  08:16:22  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi I'm no expert but my still growing (3 foot now) BRB has spent her entire life with me in a 4 foot viv, a seems perfectly happy and never missed a feed. So long as there is ample cover and hides for them to chose from I have never had a problem. But that's just my experience.



Guybrush (royal python) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csapnto_Q5I

Cassiopeia (Brazilian rainbow boa) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5VQhPP7qVM&NR=1

Smaug (deseart iguana) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ZD_SFA8Lg

Axos & Sutekh (cats) http://youtu.be/AFCgZcHXuTU

Nessie & Nemo etc ( tropical fish)
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Snakesitter
Rainbow Master

USA
2718 Posts

Posted - 27/12/2010 :  16:22:08  Show Profile  Visit Snakesitter's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Lots of people, Martin, will make a big deal about starting with a small cage and increasing it as your snake grows. However, purchasing a cage that will work for your animal's entire life (an adult Brazilian will need at least three by two feet of floor space) is probably a better move, both monetarily and effort-wise. Just make sure to provide *hides* appropriate to the size of your snake -- so long as a Brazilian has somewhere to wedge itself into, where it can feel itself press up against either wall or moss, it will feel perfectly secure and relaxed, and the overall viv size is not an issue. Hope this helps!

Cliff Earle
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martinking6
Hatchling

United Kingdom
152 Posts

Posted - 27/12/2010 :  23:26:22  Show Profile  Click to see martinking6's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Thats great ta

Got a lovely royal python called earl, 2 brazilian rainbow boas called zeus and hera, a red tail cross boa constrictor called dorris and an albino burmese python called angel as well :-)
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