okay time for another enclosure upgrade video i apologize for a little bit of background noise the
dryer's going and i have a puppy crying upstairs who uh we're going through potty training right
now so he wants to be light out of the kennel but so i already did a one about this guy this
is apache or male northern ocean county pine snake um when he got out of quarantine he was in a like
a little 28 quartish thing uh actually he was in a smaller thing that he was in like a large shoebox
because he was still really small when we got him and then we moved into a 32 quart container um
since then he's moved up to a 41 uh that went uh you know quietly through the night like two ships
passing nobody knew uh and now we're moving him up to the adult columbia rack which is the giant
uh christmas tree tub sweater box rack i guess it's not a christmas tree job
because those are really tall but this thing is four feet long this is the size of most
large uh like freedom breeder racks but the only difference is is i make them myself um
because it's cheaper and i think it still looks pretty good they're clear all the way
around which lets the photo period that i have in this room work really well it doesn't have
uvb i know i'm that's an argument for another day that we're not going to talk about but um they do
get 12 hours of light so they get a true photo period in here and they have much more room than
a lot of people keep snakes in racks so hey apache what's up buddy so yeah there he is so this guy um
the betting is a mix of play sand hey don't you don't you kill where are you going don't
you go anywhere back out um the substrate is a mix of play sand cypress and organic
without fertilizer that is the key key part of that one organic without fertilizer topsoil
apache i swear to god i swear to god apache don't you do it don't you do it you normally they'll go
and uh they'll immediately go hide in their new hides over there but apache has always been very
uh enigmatic and curious so i may end up actually just grabbing him and talking about the enclosure
a little bit if he goes for another little run here but um a lot of these guys pretty much all
pine snakes and yes obviously it varies a little bit with like humidity and amounts they pretty
much all come from fairly sandy soil um because it really works really well for burrowing um although
a lot of times the burrows they use are actually like old pocket gopher uh burrows that they
usually end up hiding in but they do usually come from some amount of sandy soil so that play sand
makes a nice way to kind of aerate it makes it good for burrowing um obviously you have this
huge water dish dollar store dog tree bowls can't dollar tree dog bowls can't go wrong with those
highly recommend dishwashable dishwasher safe hand washable safe work so well they can be disposable
to a degree because they're a dollar works pretty well um got to get some stuff in there gotta have
rocks for something for them to rub against and for them to interact with gotta have some branches
a variety of fake plants all sorts of crazy fun stuff and yes i am still keeping up there he goes
he's going off for yeah there he goes all right so apache there he is um and actually we're going to
move hopi the louisiana pine snake to one of these two her boyfriend uh still just a little small
um so we're gonna wait to move him around i have some other uh snakes moving around
upgrading changing rooms all that other good jazz it okay there it goes finally so just want to do a
quick little update of you know kind of our way of you know just giving them a little bit extra you
know nothing too too crazy just uh just a little bit extra so there he is there's under him let's
see him here he is let's see here we go hey buddy there's some sphagnum moss tucked away in there
let's see can we get in there can we get in there let's see yeah he's moving around that's okay
so there we go that's is uh his little thing oh also just mentioned this uh is a really cool
it's like a little um like a little like page box thing for like a desk that we pick up at target
every year for back to school time they're only like three to four dollars uh super great again
machine washable easy to clean fairly inexpensive to replace and much larger than a lot of the
like kind of commercially found um hides so there we go and now we're going to look at
hopi the louisiana pine snakes one okay so here is hopies uh i set hers up first put her in and then
just set apaches right on top and uh just did his first so she's already made herself at home and
tucked away inside of her hide let's see she is under there there she is there she is hey hopey
there she is hi so you can see she already had her like see that cool little track way so i put
a little bit more uh sand in hers because if i am remembering correctly most of the louisiana pine
snakes they have a very specific habitat that long leaf pine habitat that they come from um
the while i cannot 100 recreate that in captivity obviously that substrate that flooring that they
have in those forests is fairly sandy so this one has a little bit more sand mixed up in there um
and a little bit more wood as well a little bit more cypress to kind of like make up for that
but either way nice thick thick layer of substrate you can see it's pretty thick um big big water
bowl again plenty of like pants trees rocks for them that can easily be changed out moved around
for all sorts of different uh versions and times of enrichment and you know just interactivity
with all that really fun stuff and let's see how mad she's gonna be when i do this there she is
so there's hopi our big girl louisiana and i say big she they can get a little bit bigger
they don't get like crazy crazy large they're certainly smaller than like a bull snake
or even the northern pine snakes those northerns get pretty big um but in another year or two we'll
maybe try breeding her which i super look forward to um obviously can't ship them across state lines
without a permit so it'll be kind of a very niche thing here in colorado but i just think it would
be really cool because as i mentioned in the louisiana pine snake uh species spotlight video
they have the largest like some of the largest eggs of any snake they're huge very small clutches
uh very large babies coming out eating basically uh like sub-adult to adult sized mice they're
huge huge babies and you know as pits the pitch you office genus they're almost always
firecrackers which is you know part of their charm so uh hope you enjoyed this kind of small
little update video just kind of keeping people involved let you know what we do around here
um you know nothing we don't do anything too too crazy but you know we're still a breeder so we
obviously do keep in rack systems as you've seen in a lot of the videos they're not all in racks
but we do keep them and so because of that we try to do a little bit larger racks for them and very
soon i have to rebuild another one because one that we purchased um is starting to kind of warp
a little bit because it wasn't really sealed too well and so just with aging humidity it's starting
to warp a little bit so that will be replaced out and building another one and i will do the full
uh full tour of downstairs as far as you know just kind of showing everything off very soon
just have a lot of projects going on doing as much as i can with the limited amount of time
that i have for that so hope you enjoyed this video if you have any questions comments concerns
uh please just keep it civil let me know down below in the comments um if you have any questions
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