I have a young ball python with a recently updated tank. However, I can't seem to find a great desert background. I need one that is 24'' tall, which makes it very difficult. It doesn't HAVE to be a desert background, but I'd like something that is reptile oriented. All the backgrounds I find are for aquariums. Does anyone know a great store/website to purchase backgrounds??
Here are a couple of places you might like to visit. Firstly this site has one background currently available: http://www.ireptilestore.com in the search box type: "background".
Or for a few different variety of backgrounds visit: http://www.reptilesupply.com/index.php?r ef=170&affiliate_banner_id=4
and again in the search box type background.
Hope this helps
IReptile | Mar 09, 2008
custom vivarium background project for my Boas.
So far we have made 4 backgrounds for our prized Reptiles. You don't have to be a genius or you need is some creativity and the fitting ...
Part 4 (final) Grand canyon vivarium background
Last part of my illustrious canyon vivarium background project. In these videos i will show you how to make a dues background for your reptiles vivarium.
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Many pet owners spare no expense when holiday shopping for their animals
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Beau and Bella are purebred deathly white long-haired Maltese dogs, and their owner, Polly Rousselle of Kenner, plans to mollycoddle her 1 1/2-year-old pooches this holiday season.
“They’re my kids,” Rousselle said with a beam.
Pet owners are rolling over and spending more on their pets in a growing seasonal incline.
An AP-Petside.com poll finds that 66 percent of beast owners will buy toys for their dogs, cats, fish, birds and hamsters for the holidays this year, spending an for the most part of $46, $5 more than last year.
The American Pet Products Association reports whole spending on pets jumped to a projected $50.8 billion in 2011, from $48.4 billion in 2010 and $45.5 billion in 2009. They say pets are more reasonable to receive gifts during the holidays than at any other time of year.
Rousselle laid down more than $125 this month for her pubescent pups, who have their own personalized stockings hung by her family’s tree.
“It’s Beau’s and Bella’s first true Christmas,” she said. “I can’t lacuna to see their excitement.”
Housing for a reptile will, of course, vary with the type and size of your pet A tree dwelling or climbing reptile will be happiest in a tall narrow cage with branches for climbing A terrestrial reptile will be happiest in a wide, low cage Aquariums with screen covers or glass fronted wooden cages make suitable housing or you can purchase a specially made terrarium
Some considerations before you purchase your reptile terrarium
The cage must be:
Escape proof House reptiles by their kind and size
Types of Terrariums
Aquatic Terrariums
An aquatic terrarium is similar to an aquarium but usually has only four to six inches of water Like an aquarium it needs a filter and a heater and gravel on the bottom but needs a raised area above the water for a basking area and a vented or wire screen lid A basking area can be a rock protruding from the water or piece of bark The vented lid should have a lamp for basking and a background should be added, not only to look nice but to help your pet to feel secure
Pets that are at home in an aquatic terrarium include turtles, newts, frogs, salamanders and water snakes
Semi-aquatic Terrariums
This type of terrarium is a mixture of water and a dry area The two areas are separated by glass or by using a water container that is removable The water area is set up as in an aquarium and needs a heater, filter and gravel on the bottom The land area is best made by placing a layer of charcoal, covered by a thin layer of filter material then covered in sphagnum moss and potting compost Decorate the land area with rocks, driftwood or other decorations and add some moss and plants
For some reptiles you will need to provide a basking area by attaching a lamp to the lid Place this at one end of the terrarium to provide a warm area under the lamp and cooler areas at the other ends
Pets that are at home in a semi-aquatic terrarium include any of the aquatic reptiles plus crocodile lizards, basilsks, some turtles and especially newts and frogs
Lurking in the background, though, is the undeveloped for human injuries or deaths, a point Mr. Perez makes by citing a 2009 occurrence in which a toddler in Sumter County in central Florida was killed by a "pet" python that escaped its terrarium.and more »
