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    Rat food

    What can you get away with for feeding rats? I am now breeding rats (1 litter of 10 just popped out) so i can feed my ball but cant seem to find reasonable rat food around here. Can they eat just about any small animal food, like rabbit gunnie-pig hampster food? I have been feeding them...
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    Rats.....

    Sounds like Aspen is the top chocie... Now I just have to find a place that sells it.. I live in a small town with no chain pet stores around. Hmm.... there are a couple of places im guna try though.. Thanks!! BTW.. my ball p just licked my eye ball and now it's watering.. that sux.. haha
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    Rats.....

    What do you recomend for breader rat beding? I hear ceder (sp?) chips are bad for snakes due to the oils in them.. but does that play a factor when your just feeding the rat pups to the snake? If it does play a factor.. what would you use? They stink like hell so i would like to use something...
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    Chameleon wont eat?

    Mori is right, chams deffinetly need time to get used to their new setting. When I first got my veild, he didnt mind eating for me though. After a few months of the same thing he would get bored though... You will deffinetly want to try crickets, meal worms, butter worms, silk worms, wax worms...
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    TOPIC: Scorpion Enclosures

    I can't post a picture (yet) so I will discribe my A. australis set up that has worked for over a year now. It is a 5-1/2 gal tank with a screen top with clips to hold the top on (these guys are hot). For substrate I use black reptile sand with a hand full of white and black fish tank pebbles...
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    tips for a new ball python owner

    Update on the little guy: He has eaten 3 times now, i moved him up to a large mouse (i guess they were feeding him small mice) and that seems perfect for him. He has also started to calm down a lot. I have reached in a few times and pet him. He didnt nip at me at all, just balled a little...
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    tips for a new ball python owner

    Excellent, thanks for the info thus far! Glad to hear my little guy is not totaly abnormal by being a bit nippy at first.. And the info on feeding is very helpful also!
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    tips for a new ball python owner

    Hey folks, some may recognise me as a scorpion owner from the scorp chains (though i havnt been able to post in a while due to no internet :( ) but my soon to be wife got me an early weading gift of a ball python. I have wanted one my whole life and she actuelly got me one even though she...
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    How old are y'all?

    Im 21 and got my first scorpion when i was about 10 or 11. Have kept a small number of herps/inverts since then. I enjoy learning about them, informing friends about them, and getting them into herps and inverts most of all. Right now i have an A. Australis and a plain ol' Leopard Gecko.
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    First attempt at invert photography

    Deffinetly side lighting or angle lighting would be killer.. If you can play with the f-stop and shutter speed of your camera, try underexposing it just a little and see if that helps also..
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    What are your Scorps named?

    I have an a. australis named Spike! :o)
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    feeding time

    Has anyone come across information on feeding tent caterpillars to herps? I have fed my veiled chameleon a few bowls full and gave my leo a few a couple of nites ago and both LOVE them. I have held back feeding to many due to the fact that i dont know if tent caterpillars are at all toxic in...
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    Strange bug in the freezer

    Thats pretty wild! I do think that is what i found. How in the devel did it get here? They cant be native to harsh ol' Northern NY can they? If they are, where are they found? Thanks!
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    Strange bug in the freezer

    I just got into the freezer and on top of bag i spotted a bug. I have no idea what it is, but thought it might be a tick. I has the body and size of a tick but the front "legs" are extreamly long. They look exactly like a scorpions set of pinchers. I have been looking online at pictures of...
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    sex

    I am guessing the best way to sex a scorp is by its molt correct? Spike just molted not to long ago so i took a look at the bottom of it just out of ceriousity and the pectines apear to be rather long. I have never sexed a scorp, but isnt this a good sign that spike is a girl? Allso, does...
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    question about superworms

    When your scorp molts, it is very susseptible to attack. Even crickets can kill a scorp when it has recently molted. Beetles are more powerful than crickets therefor could be a problem if you dont know they are in there. The worm itself can also harm your scorp if your scorp molts.. It may...
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    Another scorp ID thread.

    Thats pretty wild looking, the dots on its back. Sorry, not that great at IDing though. Be careful, it has thin pinchers.. im sure you know the rule of thumb (small pinchers, possibly high toxisity). Good luck.. hope someone can ID it, i want to know what it is also.
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    Beginner scorpion list

    No, but from this book I am looking at these seem to be the best: Bothriurus bonariensis Diplocentrus peloncillensis Diplocentrus whitei Euscorpius flavicaudus Hadogenes bicolor Hadogenes troglodytes Heterometrus spinifer Pandinus cavimanus Pandinus imperator Pandinus viatoris...
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    crickets

    They have already cleared up the substrate deal but as for cricket bites... There are a ton of different crickets and all have different "bitting" habbits. Most of the crickets you buy in the pet trade do not bite enough to say so. The thing that used to bother me was the spike on the bottom...
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    grrrrr what can i do to make a more suitable burrowing substrate...

    Add a bit of peat moss to the sand. Mix it well. Then wet it down. Pack it in there. Then put heat lamps over it to dry it compleatly (it might take a few days because peat is a good moiture absorber). This should help a good deal. There is also clay addative you can get that is supposed...
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