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Houdini090
Snake Mite
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 Posted - 31/01/2012 : 14:59:38
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Hi all
Last October I became the proud owner of a baby corn called Houdini (he’s just over a year old) – the past few weeks every so often I would find Houdini in his water bowl almost fully submerged – with just his mouth out of the water to breathe.
Is this something to do with his shedding process? Although he seems to do it when in blue, and also when not.
Thanks all
Richard
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smiffy89
Hatchling
United Kingdom
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Posted - 31/01/2012 : 15:41:54
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some corns do it to help with shedding and/or digesting their food which is why you may see them doing at different times and stages.
as long as there is no little black bugs(mites)in the water after he's been in there you should be fine. |
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mkmattyk
banned
United Kingdom
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Posted - 31/01/2012 : 15:43:11
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i would say its something to do with the shedding process, but more worrying is sometimes they do that if they have mites, now personally when one of my snakes had mites, before i realised he wasnt bathing, but like everyone on here says each snake is different.
just a thought but it might be something to do with him controlling his body temperature, maybe??? |
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kdlang
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3556 Posts |
Posted - 31/01/2012 : 17:48:53
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| I thought that about temperature as well matty. Houdini, can you tell us more about your set-up, in particularly how you are providing heat, how you are regulating the heat and also how you are monitoring the heat, plus what the temperatures in the enclosure are and where you are monitoring them. This will help to eliminate the possibility of temperatures causing him to bathe. |
4.1.0 corns - Izzy (Carolina) Alice (Amel) Peanut (Butter Motley) Swayze (Ghost) Carmellia (Butter Motley)
0.1.0 cat - Kizzy
1.0.0 Dog - Dobbie
Location - Chesterfield, Derbyshire
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Houdini090
Snake Mite
16 Posts |
Posted - 31/01/2012 : 18:39:14
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He is housed within a faunarium, which is also within a viv. I have a heatmat underneath covering just under half of the faunarium - and the water dish is on the other side of the tub of the heat.
Just came home to find him in the water again! I got the faunarium out of the viv, and removed the lid - after a few minutes he got out of the water and is now led in the aspen shavings.
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Mort13
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
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Posted - 31/01/2012 : 18:56:59
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He could be too hot. As kdlang mentioned,how have you got his set up? Is the heatmat controlled by a thermostat? How do you record the temperatures?
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3.1.0 Corn snakes, 1.0.0 T-Albino Cape House Snake, 0.1.0 Western Hognose,
1.0.0 MBK, 0.1.0 Childrens Python, 1.0.0 Nicaraguan Dwarf Boas
0.0.1 Occelated Skink, 1.0.0 Leopard Gecko, 1.0.3 Tarantulas, 0.0.2 Damon diadema
1.0.0 C0ckatiel,
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Houdini090
Snake Mite
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Posted - 31/01/2012 : 19:27:18
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Ive got the heatmat controlled by a thermostat - and have a thermometer on viv floor, which is between the faunarium, and the heatmat. It's showing at the moment 27 degrees C.
Thanks for your messages
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Snake having a bath
