When your snake goes into shed, your rosy will go into the humid hide and it will absorb the moisture and help it shed in one piece. Is, a hide that has some damp sphagnum moss in it for extra humidity. You will want to provide a humid hide-that Scrub the bowl at least once a week to keep bacteria slime from building up. Exo Terras water bowls or Flukers water bowls are good decorative choices or a good ceramic crock dish. Keep a non-porous water bowl in with your rosy boa and make sure they always have clean water. They have a tendency to heat unevenly over too small an area and can cause serious burns. We do not recommend the use of hot rocks. You can also use a rheostat and/or timers to control your heat source. Use a good quality temperature gauge too, like Zoo Meds digital temp gauge or Exo Terras digital Thermometer. The basking light should be housed in a good quality light dome like Exo Terra and Flukers that has a ceramic housing to tolerate high heat and an on/off switch. You want a heat pad that only covers half the tank (or less). Both of these are placed on the outside, underneath the enclosure. We recommend a Zoo Med heat mat or Exo Terra heat pad that stays on 24/7 to give them a little bit of supplemental heat during the night. The heat pads are usually placed on the hot side with a hide over it. It's a good idea to use a basking light and an under tank heat pad also. At night, it can drop down to 72 ambient temperature. This cool side can be between 75-80 degrees. Put one hide there and another on the cooler side. The hot side basking spot should be at 88-90 degrees. This way your pet can move back and forth between the different temperatures depending on its needs.

All the heat elements should be on one side and the other will then be the cool side. This essentially means you need to provide a hot and cool side to your enclosure. Like all reptiles, they are dependent on external thermoregulation to control their body temperature. and in parts of Mexico, so they like it fairly warm, though they need to be able to cool off if they want to. Rosy boas originate from the southern U.S. Zoo Meds wipe out or vinegar and water both work good for cage cleaning. Disinfect the enclosure and change out the bedding at that time. You should only need to clean the whole thing out about once a month. Spot clean the bedding whenever they defecate. The ones that look and work the best are Zilla jungle mix, Zoo Med eco earth, and Zoo Med forest floor.

You can use many types of bedding for your snake. Rosy boas are terrestrial snakes, so a tall cage is not necessary. Having the added security of the hides helps to discourage this behavior. They are known for rubbing their snout on the walls and lid while searching for a way to escape the enclosure. A rosy boa will feel more secure if there is a hide for them on both the cool and warm sides of the enclosure (more about that in the heating section). If you use a glass tank, you will want to provide a humid hide-that is, a hide that has some damp moss in it for extra humidity. A small male might be able to stay in a 20 long, but most adults do well in a tank at least 36' x 18' ( Exo Terra Large, or Zilla 30 gal). For yearlings, step up to an enclosure that is at least 30' x 12' inches (like Zilla critter cage 20 Long) or go to the adult enclosure size. There are several kinds that will work, e.g., glass aquariums or any of the commercially available plastic-type reptile enclosures. At around a year old, you can increase the size of the enclosure. Rosy boa babies can start out in small enclosures hatchlings do well in 10 gallon glass aquariums. This care sheet is showing the way we found works best for us from our many years of experience of caring for this species. You will find many ways on the internet on 'how to' take care of this animal. Origin: Southwestern U.S., Baja California, and Sonora, Mexico.

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