hey everybody just doing a little bit of an update so as always i'm doing my best to
upgrade improve enlarge all the enclosures that all of our animals are being kept in here
uh because as a lot of people did when they first got started they stuck with the want the different
standard sizes that honestly were too small and so because of that i am as i can upgrading all
of the different enclosures so with that in mind today the rhino rat snakes are getting new digs
so when we first look at this guy so here's our male so here's our new papa who is up here he's
a lot more wiry than the female is but this is a 36 here we're just gonna come back out so this is
a 36 by 18 by 18. these guys are pair are fairly small uh semi-arboreal snakes very slender bodied
this is i think good for a single one i was going to keep them in a pair but he is very hit or miss
on the times that he's actually eating he doesn't eat consistently but he's putting on weight and
he's growing in size so that's good but between that and then the female when they were housed
together um she was eating all the food i'm gonna house them separately not only that but the female
is taking a little bit longer to bounce back from laying her eggs as well so i am leaving them
uh separated for the time being so there he is here's his cute little face
zoom in right there come on come on there we go he's a good looking boy so as you can see
he has more of that turquoise color that it'll be a little while before the babies
uh hopefully a they get established but b uh they need to take some size and time to grow from that
gray scale through that autogenetic change turn to the really nice bright green and or this blue
green teal color that this guy is so in here i'm going to zoom back out again um this enclosure has
uvb light it has a few live plants this one some bamboo that grass little furny thing over the back
and as this grows and gets more established these are gonna fill out we'll see about the bamboo the
bamboo was pulled out of another cage um that was also getting upgraded it's not doing so hot so
we'll see if it comes back if not oh well um but that's why we have all this other stuff to help
fill it in so as these get larger this will fill out throughout the rest of the enclosure as well
not to mention we have the ability with all of my other different artificial plants like this
guy and the vines and things to fill this out this enclosure used to be one of my display ones that i
would take to the reptile shows but it was getting a little scratched up just in travel and moving
and as it starts to get a little bit more scratched up it doesn't really look as good
it doesn't present as good and that's kind of the goal for the shows and the presentations that i'm
having is i want them to look good and i want it to look really nice and even though i can have the
inside look really good the outside if it's all scratched doesn't look great and then honestly
even if i would put you know stickers and stuff all over the side it just doesn't quite present as
professional enough for me because i want to try to make a good example i decided to bring it back
and this will be the setup for the male so with that being said we're going to go down because
it's stacked on top of each other we're gonna go check out the female one because we just put her
in here as well so here's our female who actually if you look at her body size she is doing pretty
good but she was eating fairly inconsistently and she still only really wants live mice right now
as a whole it seems like asian rat snakes really seem to like mice at least with the
several species that i work with they really prefer mice over rats i'm not sure why that is
comparable size or whatever but she's eating only live mice right now for the most part which
is okay i have a few it's not the end of the world um but as we zoom out here so this was um the more
the very first one that i got in uh as another display case but it was honestly really tall
so this cage is actually 24 by 18 by 24 by 36 so 36 24 24. this was going to be the enclosure that
i kept the pair of them in but as i had mentioned before i they're just not really healthy enough
and stable enough to where i want to be able to do that not to say that you know they're unhealthy
animals by any stretch of the imagination i just think that housing them separately i have the
ability to do so and i'm going to do so and only pair them when it comes time to breeding and i'm
perfectly fine with that as with the males cage above we have multiple hides multiple
live plants nice deep substrate and plenty of artificial branches and climbing branches
for these pvc cages i don't really do the foamed in background as much maybe one of these days um
you know if we get if we're a little bit more well to do and this really takes off a little bit more
maybe i'll go down and check out universal rock and order some different backgrounds from them
then i'll deck out a lot of these guys as well but we're doing baby steps as we can as we move along
slowly improving we have another little t5 uv strip here i make sure that even though the t5 is
one of the more efficient uh ultraviolet outputs along with vivtec the new led uh led light the new
led uv a and uvb light bulbs these guys are they do prefer kind of diluted light at a lot of times
so i make sure that i provide lots of places for them to still be out during the day when the
lights on because it's a 12 hour cycle to allow them to still be able to hide in cryptic bask
if they so choose and perch and move around being semi-arab oral i make sure they give them lots of
places to climb on and things like that with this big uh big brick branches and things right here so
we're going to give them time to feel established this was a smaller quicker video but i just want
to kind of give a really cool update on how everything is going with these guys
these guys are being housed in our uh cool reptile room i used to call it the gecko room but honestly
uh we're kind of phasing out a lot of the geckos to where we're upgrading uh the enclosures of the
ones that we are keeping um really trimming down how many we have because honestly they would be
more appreciated for someone who more specializes in crested geckos we're still always going to have
a few but we are kind of changing how we're doing things around a little bit um so i guess we're
just going to call the cool weather or the cool reptile room or the cold reptile room i don't know
maybe any ideas of how i really want to call that gecko room really kind of flowed off the tongue
but it's going to be slowly phased out to be not quite as many geckos with all of the other
species and snakes that we're going to have in here but that being said i hope you guys like
these enclosures forgive my old man noise as i move up so we're going to come right back up here
check out this again up there he is he's over there in the corner back there seems like whenever
you get an arborial snake or any snake that isn't like a really sedentary terrestrial snake like a
ball python they always just start climbing and moving around and looking for places maybe to
escape or just to climb and get the high point vantage whereas a more terrestrial snake will
immediately find one of the hides and curl up and that's where these guys
actually the female lately hasn't spent a lot of time under her hide he's been out and about and
feeling much more adventurous as he played as well maybe with the weather and everything heating up
uh that's what he's doing but again hope you guys enjoyed this little video just a quick
little life update for everybody going on just wanted to show off another really cool way to
do an enclosure for these guys not necessarily perfect not everything i would like to do in the
end i wish i could get a few more live plants in here i wish i could get more um like the
you know like the the nicer rock backgrounds and things like that for more of a platform
like the japanese rat snake has a nice like cave perch that she likes to hide in as well
but we'll get there when we get there i just wanted to upgrade their uh just upgrade their
enclosures as we continue to move and upgrade the room in general so hope everyone is having a great
day hope you enjoyed this video we're gonna end a little bit more on his cute little face
there he is and hope everyone's having a great day and we will check you next time