Englischdude
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Hi dear Community,
my name is Martin and i am located in the alpine region of austria.
my daughters have been bugging (pun intended) me for ages for a pet. we went through the whole catalogue of possible pets, in the end i took them to a reptile expo and the came home with a 1.5 year old female albo. she is called HAVANA!
In the beginning Havana was living in a flat 1litre plastic tub, now she has moulted we felt she is outgrowing her environment. as substrate before we used earth from a mole hill which we baked. she had a water dish and hideout and seemed just fine.
now we have rehoused Havana to a 30cm x 30cm glass terrarium. for geoud substrate we habe used a mix of earth and coconut fibre. it was in the form of these dried pressed bricks which you need to soak in water. the substrate seemed however too moist so we left it is the open for a couple of days to allow it to dry out a little.
now havana is in her new home, the first nigjt she was wandering around like crazy but for the last 24 jours has just sat between her water dish and the corner of her tank close to one of the ventilation grills. i bought one of those exo terra humidity guage which turned out to be a complete waste of money as it is extremely innacurate, however using an electronic humidity gauge i estimate the humidity to be about 85 percent. is this too high? is it possible that she is just tired from all the exploring she has done and is just resting? should i maxbe put her back in her old home and dry out the substrate more?
i am a little nervous as we will be away for a week from this coming tuesday and want to be sure she is happy in her new home before we go.
thanks in advance for your help.
martin
my name is Martin and i am located in the alpine region of austria.
my daughters have been bugging (pun intended) me for ages for a pet. we went through the whole catalogue of possible pets, in the end i took them to a reptile expo and the came home with a 1.5 year old female albo. she is called HAVANA!
In the beginning Havana was living in a flat 1litre plastic tub, now she has moulted we felt she is outgrowing her environment. as substrate before we used earth from a mole hill which we baked. she had a water dish and hideout and seemed just fine.
now we have rehoused Havana to a 30cm x 30cm glass terrarium. for geoud substrate we habe used a mix of earth and coconut fibre. it was in the form of these dried pressed bricks which you need to soak in water. the substrate seemed however too moist so we left it is the open for a couple of days to allow it to dry out a little.
now havana is in her new home, the first nigjt she was wandering around like crazy but for the last 24 jours has just sat between her water dish and the corner of her tank close to one of the ventilation grills. i bought one of those exo terra humidity guage which turned out to be a complete waste of money as it is extremely innacurate, however using an electronic humidity gauge i estimate the humidity to be about 85 percent. is this too high? is it possible that she is just tired from all the exploring she has done and is just resting? should i maxbe put her back in her old home and dry out the substrate more?
i am a little nervous as we will be away for a week from this coming tuesday and want to be sure she is happy in her new home before we go.
thanks in advance for your help.
martin
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