doing another pov enclosure upgrade which is also technically part of the shop updates but not an
official update video so this is the black headed python so um her cage needed to be cleaned out and
renovated a little bit and so we redid up a lot of that um changed up her substrate and changed up
a little bit about our how her heating was going so before she was kept in the arid room which was
mostly kept on ambient heat with just the bright spot just being a little daylight bulb during the
day and then her actual setup is not that much different um but what i did decide to do was put
a more permanent divider in there um that's just being a piece of painted and sealed wood and then
that'll divide up the two different substrates so the more humid side and then the more arid side
she has a hide on both sides just like that and then she has a nice basking spot there is a heat
underneath this enclosure and there is a radiant heat panel up there um and then that will be her
nice little warm basking spot the temps are a little bit different than they were in her
previous setup because like i said it was mostly ambient so this will definitely have a more of a
more naturalistic like day night cycle as far as temps go as well because the temps do run um a
little bit cooler at night so we're looking at a hot spot you know in the mid 90s right there
and then down there a little bit lower down all the way over here we're in this back corner like
where water dishes that'd be like in the high 60s and then at night the overall temp dips down so
this would probably be around 65 66 over here on this side and then over there would be in the like
mid 80s on that rock and then so on and so forth so plenty of room for her to thermal regulate this
is a four foot pvc not pvc melamine enclosure um i've talked about them in previous videos
but you know we have a bunch of those so i'll do a little bit of a recap on that so these were
purchased from someone who bred bearded dragons so keeping in mind like with sake with snake
uh snake proofing enclosures was not a high priority for them so that's why a lot of
them don't look as nice and a lot of them have different stuff like why like this was meant for
daylight bulb that was meant for uvb and there was like an attachment over there on that side as well
um that's how they had them set up and so i had to retrofit a lot of different stuff like adding
a little bit a piece right here so that way it couldn't sneak out because these guys are super
smart black-headed pythons are very smart and very weird snakes they're super weird um and then
you know i have to deal with sealing that up and deal with sealing up the other holes because they
just had giant holes drilled out right there so changing that up a little bit um and so here we go
this is the nice new enclosure for her this four foot one eventually she might go into a six foot i
don't really know i still grow my animals so she has plenty of time to i have plenty of time to
save up or figure out how i want to address that in the future but she's looking pretty good she
absolutely does hate me so i'm not gonna pester her um as far as like the branches and climbing
stuff here goes um blackheaded pythons as a whole are not historically very arboreal they're very
terrestrial um snakes they spend a lot of time in their burrows and then they will um thermoregulate
via their very uh very dark black head hence the name they'll stick that out get their heat get
their uvb go back in and then they'll hunt for um all sorts of various animals these guys are
generalists they're known snake eaters but the lost lead other reptiles as well as plenty of
mammals and probably uh ground nesting birds as well these guys do come from australia uh along
with the wilma python they're part of the genus aspedites um they're the weirdest little snakes
ever they don't have traditional heat uh heat pits like other pythons do which is generally what
classifies like a constricting snake as a python they do have kind of a weird one
under their rostral scale so like under their lip nose a little bit like the very front of
their face but they don't have those heat pits like you would traditionally see on a python
or even a pit viper like a rattlesnake um or an adder or similar but these guys are really cool
um but i still want to give them the ability to climb as i went on that nice little tangent right
there um so i'll give this and even after watching her move around in this enclosure for the last two
or a year and a half um she didn't really do a whole lot of climbing either mostly spent
a lot of her time she would climb up on top of this hide um and she would kind of check
stuff out a lot but most of her time was spent usually on the warmer side of her cage on
um one of the two basking rocks or under a hide is where she spent most of her time but i'm still
always going to provide the opportunity to let them climb a little bit so we have some cholla
wood which is um that dried and clean cactus and just another little branch right here just to give
them a little bit of something and then the choice whether she yep see there she goes i made the
patent so she didn't really like that so i want to give that way she'll have the choice between
the cool and the the the warm side with the more traditional arid species looking
this is some of the terrain that you would normally see that kind of like red dirt
in the australian outback which is the part of australia where these guys are found
as well as their you know they're not going to be just in the desert constantly so we give this that
i can add a little bit of humidity to put a little cypress not cypress mulch but sphagnum moss under
there if i want to help with aiding and shedding although she's always been a very good shedder
um and a nice big water dish if she chooses they don't really need to soak or anything like that
but hopefully she enjoys this cage and i will continue to work with her a little bit but these
guys are super cool i really like them i don't know if i'm ever gonna breed her in the future um
i really don't know they do come in like an aneurythuristic and a couple like weird like
little pattern variations but i like just the classic clean look of these guys they're super
cool just a really weird snake and everyone i talk to who keeps these guys all have oops sorry
all have different stories about the weird things that they do between like almost sentient level
like retic level watch not sentient but more like retake king cobra level like watching their room
watching their behavior getting used to times and things like that to their just kind of different
changes of regular behavior of interactions with them um my girl um they don't have quite the
differentiated um throat that like not the throat but the glottis that like the king cobra has that
can actually growl um but these guys can make some weird noises other than just like the classic
snake hiss it almost is like a scream almost it sounds it sounds like i'm making that up but they
almost make this kind of weird scream sound um and she has done that to me when i have aggravated her
um but that's all i just really wanted to show you just another quick little povo pov upgrade and as
you can hear the livestock guardian dogs barking in the background it's probably the neighbors uh
pony and mini donkey they don't really like them so they'll bark at them across the pasture
but hopefully you guys enjoyed this video and you got to see one of the animals i don't talk about
as much she's just gonna spin the next because i just put her in here before we started this so
she's going to spend the next probably day or so just checking everything out and clearing things
and yes that radiant heat panel is hooked up to a thermostat whenever you're dealing with
radiant heat panels or flex water heat tape you always want to make sure you have that
connected to a thermostat so that way they don't risk the chance of burning themselves and that is
a low wattage bulb so that way i don't risk run the risk of her burning herself if anyone had any
concerns about that that was a very similar bulb that she had in her previous enclosure back at her
house up in denver but hopefully you enjoyed this video you get to see her just be kind of silly as
we as the camera tries to focus and unfocus out of that um questions comments concerns please let me
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