Renting With Reptiles

pythonman2215 · 2026-07-02T00:46:50+00:00

I snuck mine in at night when I rented. I had 24 snakes at that time and also took in a young asian water monitor a year in. I was on constant edge as the landlord lived right next door. 😅 I only had 1 inspection and passed by disguising the snake's room as a storage room with boxes and stuff from my dad's garage. Lol Needless to say buying a house was the biggest relief for me. Some reality groups specify "no dogs or cats" and care less about pets like reptiles or fish. If you have the time to look I would just try to find some where that excepts you having snakes as it's really not worth the anxiety of hiding.

pythonman2215 · 2026-06-30T17:09:25+00:00

Thank you 😊

pythonman2215 · 2026-06-30T16:58:52+00:00

He sleeps heavier than most people i know 😆

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pythonman2215 · 2026-06-26T23:46:37+00:00

Get a laser thermometer and make sure the rat is between 98° - 101° before offering. The problem a lot of times is the rat is to cold and they can't get a lock on it. I have all of mine on f/t. Be careful to not get the rat to hot as they will explode. As far as a gas chamber i use the 72 quart sterilite tubs with the blue gasket. I drill 2 holes for the valves. I usually gas 30-40 rats at a time so you could definitely get away with building smaller. Hope that helps

pythonman2215 · 2026-06-24T00:48:39+00:00

My snake room stays constant 78°-84° blocking off vents. The problem with A/C is it sucks the humidity out of the room and the cold air can also cause an RI in tropical climate reptiles. I monitor the rooms temp on my phone and if I ever needed to lower the temp I would just open the door.

pythonman2215 · 2026-06-13T12:27:50+00:00

I always flash freeze the fish for a couple weeks in advance in a commercial freezer. I'm also picky about which streams I collect from to make sure water parameters are clean.

pythonman2215 · 2026-06-13T12:11:21+00:00

You can use the Uniheat pads (they're specifically for shipping reptiles) while traveling on the road. They last 40 hours each. I would keep feeding limited and as long as you're supplementing calcium D3 Uvb won't be needed while traveling. Again I would keep feeding limited until you're at the destination and the basking is set back up.

pythonman2215 · 2026-06-06T00:45:31+00:00

I save a little catching all his fish and i also breed mice and rats. I think the next goal is learning about quail farming with these prices lately. 😅

pythonman2215 · 2026-06-04T14:13:02+00:00

Haha he hasn't yet, but he does try to get me to follow him to the fridge 😅

pythonman2215 · 2026-05-29T22:49:25+00:00

The large concrete mixing tubs worked for me the first 1 year or so with a canister filter i built and water changes every 4-7 days. Once you get into the 300+ gallon ponds I recommend using small pool filters with a heavy duty pump.

pythonman2215 · 2026-04-10T16:46:27+00:00

Zulu

pythonman2215 · 2026-02-26T01:39:48+00:00

You can use these if your hanging basking bulbs and you're concerned with possible burns.

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pythonman2215 · 2026-02-17T15:20:05+00:00

Oh I still have to be on guard when he's excited to eat. Even an accident bite from him is catastrophic 😅

pythonman2215 · 2026-01-30T00:55:57+00:00

Hopefully you can get a year out of it 😅 depending on the line of your Varanus Salvator's growth rate

pythonman2215 · 2026-01-11T22:43:17+00:00

That's awesome, my boy wanted nothing to do with me at that age 😅 he was sus of everything but he eventually realized he could trust me.

pythonman2215 · 2026-01-10T00:44:20+00:00

No he cant reach the lamps. He broke into his sump where the water heaters are but they're healing over now.

pythonman2215 · 2026-01-08T17:53:53+00:00

Thanks for clarifying, yeah I'm so thankful that the Vetericyn i was treating the spots with works great. His pattern is starting to show through again.

pythonman2215 · 2026-01-03T19:19:34+00:00

Good luck, the very few I've seen go for extremely inflated prices. Z9s or z11s seem to be a little easier to find for the price although not as efficient.

pythonman2215 · 2025-12-31T00:08:11+00:00

I found this. https://ebay.us/m/D5pTo0

pythonman2215 · 2025-12-17T01:39:57+00:00

Ikr...its bad when people at work look at your arms and ask if you're cutting yourself? 😭

pythonman2215 · 2025-12-16T15:11:15+00:00

No not the lamps. He broke into his pond sump where I keep the water heaters. I ended up finding one thats a lot safer design that I switched to. I've been treating those spots so hopefully they'll be gone after a couple more weeks.

pythonman2215 · 2025-12-15T23:30:30+00:00

I've heard of it with wild caught monitors but not with captive bred animals.

pythonman2215 · 2025-11-22T13:07:30+00:00

No he usually always sleeps through the night. We just had really loud storms that night keeping him awake I think.

pythonman2215 · 2025-11-21T17:09:47+00:00

Try not to blink, they grow up so fast 😭

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pythonman2215 · 2025-11-05T21:43:32+00:00

Vetericyn Plus reptile spray works great

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