玉米蛇宠物饲养询证指南

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攀爬、遮挡与躲避

高处的躲避

https://www.reddit.com/r/cornsnakes/comments/15i9wj8/he_got_a_new_cave_suspended_about_a_foot_off_the/

【】【好的、复杂的遮挡本身就可能成为躲避,见20230803照片】【】

复杂空间和躲避可以满足蛇的趋触性,就像有些人冬天盖着厚被子容易睡着,夏天的气温适合不盖被子,但是失去了沉重被子的触觉,即使温度合适也睡不着,把空调开冷了盖被子睡更舒服。这就是一种对人体的趋触性。动物也一样,进化使得被捕食者在休息时有躲藏欲望,其生理实现就是让动物在更大比例的身体接触墙壁、地面时感到舒适。

如果缺乏复杂的环境或合适的躲避空间,动物满足趋触性的唯一方法就是接触自己,对人来说是抱着膝盖蹲坐在地上、头埋在两腿中间,对蛇来说是盘成特别紧的一团(一盘);最外圈贴不到自己,就挤在后墙角,贴墙。

树枝的布置

【】【(Sinclair, 2023 III 】【】

一部分树枝可以直接用螺丝固定,

但也可以使用吊钩固定木头,让木头不是固着不不动的,活动的木头可以在攀爬时轻微摇晃,增加攀爬难度。提供更好的丰容效果。自然界的树枝也不是结结实实一动不动的。同时这样可以很容易的把树枝取下来消毒。

“我的蛇天天在躲避里睡觉,看不着”

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玉米蛇是地栖和半树栖物种,提供攀爬物是很好的丰容措施。可以增加玉米蛇的运动量,充分利用垂直空间,满足玉米蛇的舒展需求,

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食物丰容的scent trail方法(在食物一节说了)

防止跌伤

之前解释栖地够高的时候,蛇拔高顶墙时难以用力,可以避免顶坏吻部。那么增加攀爬物是否会让蛇借力攀爬物继续用力顶天花板?答案是不会,因为蛇的需求并不是要尽可能的高,而是要伸展身体。增加攀爬物也不会让蛇继续往高顶,而是会让蛇在纵向伸展身体时更省力。满足了伸展身体的需求也就不会反复向上顶。(冬青-Cyan, 2021 III 

可攀爬的背景板

壁上岩石方案

缸体壁上的泡沫仿真岩石

防止跌落砸伤

粗糙材质帮助蜕皮

吊床做晒点

吊床,注意吊床的温度问题。吊床应该是晒点,干燥炎热。若使用加热垫而不是加热灯可能有问题。

动物园文章表明吊床可以增加看到它的几率

因为针织物的孔洞大小可以刚好适合玉米蛇。

针织袋子

吊床

动物园论文加吊床

同时应该提供阴影区使蛇可以选择不同强度的UVB区域

遮蔽,阴影 躲避,正常的躲避,用物体剩余空间产生的躲避,有重量被压住的躲避 毛线袋:躲避,晒点,隔离近地湿度大的区域,锻炼身体,

喜欢身体贴着墙的感觉(要有这样的空间可供选择,不是直接把栖地搞成这样。你觉得躺着舒服,不代表人应该住在棺材里。)

爬行动物只有足够信任自己的躲避区域,才会在活动时间当着你的面出来活动。在饲养初期没事不要掀躲避,过几个月再玩。(冬青-Cyan, 2021 III 

毛线袋

遮挡视线

雌性蛇需要一个下蛋的躲避

玉米蛇至少需要三个躲避,一个热区,一个冷区,一个湿躲避。III

植物

(从蛇的角度看)栖地里的植物丰容物可以说有多少放多少,不会嫌多。植物同时充当了视觉隔障、攀爬物和红外/紫外的阴影区。

植物有真假两种。在蛇的栖地里种活真的植物非常困难,因为蛇很喜欢挖土,植物还没扎好根早就被蛇翻了。Reptiles and research有一个如何把草种活的视频


【】【未翻译】【】 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HGZZHoG3co How I Grew Grass in a Bioactive Snake Enclosure

Role: assistant So, how do we get a vivarium to grow like this? Well, I think I've managed it. Let me show you. We're back in the room with Charlie. I've turned on these lights because I thought it might be too dark. Now I'm thinking I might be a bit overexposed, but we'll roll with it. Let's look at Charlie's vivarium. It's a three by two by two enclosure with grass on the floor and a kitchen board meant to resemble nature. Charlie is up on his custom-made habitat, a Universal Rock sent by a customer. Charlie is a typical Cali king. He's going to come flying forward as soon as I try to open this door, so let's see how this goes. I do have a mouse to offer him to keep him occupied, but we shall see how this goes.

那么,我们如何让爬箱像这样生长呢?我想我已经做到了。让我给你展示一下。我们回到了房间,和Charlie在一起。我打开了这些灯,因为我担心可能会太暗。现在我在想我可能有点过曝,但我们会随之而变。来看看Charlie的爬箱。这是一个三乘二乘二的爬箱,地板上有草,还有一个厨房板,意在模仿自然。Charlie在他的定制栖息地上,这是一个由客户送来的通用岩石。Charlie是一个典型的加州国王。他会在我试图打开这个门的时候立刻向前飞,所以让我们看看这会怎么样。我有一只老鼠可以给他,以保持他的占领,但我们将看看这会怎么样。

Next, let's talk about the vivarium. I mixed a bag of potting mix, not topsoil, with a bag of Leo life. I mixed it thoroughly and spread it in the enclosure, put all my equipment in, and my water bowls. I wanted it to grow up and around all the sticks so it looked really grown in. You can see here where I've planted some more stones. I used a big bag of lawn seeds repair kit and sewed it in there, as well as watercress which is growing really well. I heavily sprayed it for the next few days to water it. I took a sprig of mint from the garden, which is growing really well, and used a log at the back to wedge it under another ledge so that he couldn't dig it out. The Cali king is really inquisitive, so when he wants to investigate something, he'll root around the new thing. I didn't want him to dig it up.

接下来,我们来谈谈爬箱。我混合了一袋种植土,而不是表土,和一袋Leo life。我把它混合均匀,铺在爬箱里,放进所有的设备和我的水碗。我希望它能在所有的棍子上下生长,让它看起来真的长了进来。你可以在这里看到我种了一些更多的石头。我用了一大袋草坪种子修复包,把它缝在那里,还有水瓜,它们长得非常好。接下来的几天我大量喷水。我从花园里取了一根薄荷,它长得很好,我用后面的一根木头把它楔在另一个岩石下,这样他就挖不出来。加州国王非常好奇,所以当他想去调查一些东西的时候,他会在新的东西周围挖根。我不希望他把它挖出来。

I believe the biggest success for why this works is the fact that there are numerous LEDs. Up top, it's a screen top so I'm also using this as a bit of a storage area. I've got two jungle Dawns up here, linked up. I've had to add more visible light to make sure that the grass can grow. The grass really needs this high amount of visible light otherwise it won't grow very far. I think a lot of the time that I've failed in the past with grass, it's because I've tried to do it in a vivarium with a screen top where the heat gathers and the ambient air temperature rises. I think it's just too warm of an ambient air temperature for the grass to survive. In this vivarium, the screen top releases all the excess hot air and it comes up and goes, allowing all of this growth to look plentiful and healthy. I think it looks fantastic. I love the way it's growing up and around the board.

我认为这个方法成功的最大原因是有许多LED灯。上面是一个屏幕顶,所以我也把它当作一个存储区。我在这里有两个丛林黎明,连在一起。我不得不增加更多的可见光,以确保草能够生长。草真的需要这么高的可见光,否则它不会长得很远。我认为我过去在草地上失败的很多时候,是因为我试图在一个有屏幕顶的爬箱中做这个,热量聚集,环境气温升高。我认为环境气温对草的生存来说太暖和了。在这个爬箱中,屏幕顶部释放出所有多余的热气,它上升并消失,使所有的生长看起来丰富和健康。我认为它看起来很棒。我喜欢它在板子上下生长的方式。

I'm hoping over time that this board looks really weathered and rotting so it looks like a board that's been left out. That's what I was going for with this sort of California Coastal herping area archetype. I have got some aloe vera growing there as well, so hopefully that grows really well and then we'll have a nice ecosystem growing in it. This plant at the back is a curry plant but it died. I've still put it in there because I think even if it dies it still looks good. But what I'm hoping for is that even though all this grass might die, this mint is going to take off. I think it's going to be the saving grace for this entire setup.

我希望随着时间的推移,这块板子看起来真的很破旧和腐烂,就像一块被遗弃的板子。这就是我想要的加利福尼亚沿海区域原型。我也有一些芦荟在那里生长,所以希望它能长得非常好,然后我们将有一个很好的生态系统在里面生长。后面的这株植物是咖喱植物,但它死了。我还是把它放在那里,因为我认为即使它死了,它看起来还是很好。但我希望的是,即使所有的草都可能死掉,这个薄荷会蓬勃发展。我认为它将会是这整个设置的救赎。

The really cool thing about this as well is the watercress. This shot up and the sprouts were showing overnight. Even if it constantly dies, it's like 79 pence a packet of watercress seeds so I'm just going to keep re-sewing just to keep the look. It doesn't matter to me and I think I've shown now that I can keep it alive for weeks at a time. I'm just going to keep re-sewing, it doesn't matter. That's what I've done with the grass. The lawn seed is just doff fast acting lawn seed, the first thing I grabbed from the range. I'm pretty sure that anything you use would work as well.

这个也很酷的一点是水瓜。这个一夜之间就长出了芽。即使它不断死亡,它就像79便士一包的水瓜种子,所以我只是会不断的重新播种,只是为了保持这个样子。这对我来说无所谓,我想我现在已经证明了我可以让它活几个星期。我只是会继续播种,这无所谓。这就是我对草的处理方式。草籽就是doff快速作用的草籽,是我从范围内抓到的第一样东西。我很确定你使用的任何东西都会起作用。

Role: assistant First, let's examine the lawn seed, which is the first thing I grabbed from the range. In all honesty, it's doff fast-acting lawn seed, and I'm pretty sure that any seed would work as long as you meet the right conditions to prevent it from overheating and dying. This seed is meant to be sowed directly, and you just scatter it about. The combination of effects here is because the air releases upwards and out, providing a lot of ventilation to release excess heat. Additionally, there's a lot of lighting on top, so you have to ensure that the plants receive plenty of visible light to grow. That's the difference I think it's made.

首先,我们来看看草籽,这是我从产品系列中随手抓起的第一样东西。说实话,它是doff快速发芽的草籽,我非常确定只要你为它创造正确的环境条件,防止它过热和死亡,任何种子都可以有效地生长。这种草籽需要直接播种,你只需随意撒播。这里的效果组合是因为空气向上并向外释放,提供了大量的通风以释放多余的热量。另外,顶部有很多照明,所以你必须确保植物接收到充足的可见光以促使其生长。我认为这就是它产生的差异。

The way I've sown it is to shake some seeds out of the box and onto the floor, then I repeatedly spray it with a heavy pressured sprayer, making sure I keep it moist until it sprouts. As the grass matures, I'll reduce the amount of spraying to let the surface dry out again. Hopefully, the roots of the grass will remain humid, but the top will dry out as it matures and strengthens. Then, I'll start to spray less because it's not so delicate. In my opinion, all of this is just trial and error. I'm no expert on growing grass or anything like that. I've just scattered it and sprayed it, hopefully creating a nutritious soil using a potting mix made for growing plants, as well as using the Leo life for that clay texture, which hopefully adds to the drainage.

我播种的方式是把一些种子从盒子里摇出来撒在地上,然后我用高压喷雾器反复喷洒,确保我保持它的湿润直到它发芽。随着草的成熟,我将减少喷洒的量,让表面再次干燥。希望草的根部将保持湿润,但顶部将随着它的成熟和强壮而干燥。然后,我会开始减少喷洒,因为它不再那么娇嫩。在我看来,这一切都只是试错过程。我并不是种植草或其他任何事情的专家。我只是撒播和喷洒,希望使用专门用于种植植物的种植混合土壤,以及使用Leo life来增加粘土质地,这希望能增加排水性。

What's really nice for the animal, in this case, Charlie, is that when the clay is moist, it goes soft and allows for easy digging. There's the start of a burrow down there, dug out under this board. Over time, the soil dries out again and the clay hardens, which means it holds its burrow completely. I've seen him reusing these same burrows because they're holding structure. More often than not, he's choosing not to use it for whatever reason. He's always sitting around up top, either cruising around and licking everything and sniffing everything, or sits up top basking as he is now.

对于动物来说,这里的动物是查理,当粘土湿润时,它会变得柔软,方便挖掘。下面有一个洞穴的开始,挖出来在这个板子下面。随着时间的推移,土壤再次干燥,粘土硬化,这意味着它完全保持了洞穴的形状。我看见他一次次地重复使用这些同样的洞穴,因为它们保持了结构。他更多的时候选择不去使用它,无论什么原因。他总是在顶部周围坐着,要么四处逛逛,舔舐一切,嗅嗅一切,要么像现在一样在顶部晒太阳。

For anyone who thinks that they don't need UV or shouldn't have UV or they won't even want UV, look at him. He's got all these areas down here to be in the shade at the back and in the corner or even under this board, yet he's choosing to be out under lights, specifically under this one T5 kit. He's choosing to bask for UV for whatever reason. I think this is really cool. As the setup matures even further, I'm going to introduce a blue death feigning beetle and some giant orange isopods. But for now, I think it's in a really sweet spot and it looks really nice.

对于那些认为他们不需要紫外线,或者不应该有紫外线,或者甚至不想要紫外线的人,看看他。他在这里有所有这些阴影区域,可以在后面,在角落,甚至在这个板子下面,然而,他选择在灯光下出来,特别是在这一个T5套件下。无论什么原因,他选择晒紫外线。我认为这非常酷。随着设备进一步成熟,我将引入一种蓝色昆虫和一些巨大的橙色等足虫。但是现在,我认为它处于一个非常好的位置,看起来非常漂亮。

Many people have asked about how I managed to grow the grass. I hope this inspires some of you to give it a try. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But if you combine this with the watercress, you can keep re-sowing because even if it dies, it will keep growing back. And it's cheap. So just keep doing it. Even if it's not a bioactive setup, and you just want a nice grass look, if it keeps dying, just re-sow it. It will maintain those fresh shoots. Who cares if it dies?

许多人问我是如何成功种植草的。我希望这能激励你们中的一些人去尝试。如果不行,那就不行。但是如果你将这个与西洋菜结合,你可以不断地重新播种,因为即使它死了,它还会继续生长。而且它很便宜。所以就继续做。即使它不是一个生物活性的设置,你只是想要一个漂亮的草地,如果它不断死亡,只要重新播种。它将保持那些新鲜的嫩芽。谁在乎它是否死亡呢?

That's all I have for you. I plan to make more videos on these other setups, like the one behind me here. I've built this whole swinging climbing structure that's been complete for a while now, and I think it's finally time to show you guys how I did it. I also plan to go through the bearded dragon's advanced lighting and his setup. So, all the things I've been holding off on, we're going to start filming everything, and I'm going to start showing you it all. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video.

这就是我为你们准备的所有内容。我计划制作更多关于这些其他设置的视频,比如我身后的这个。我已经建造了这个整个的摇摆攀爬结构,现在已经完成了一段时间,我认为现在是时候向你们展示我是如何做到的了。我也计划详细介绍鬃狮蜥的高级照明和他的设置。所以,我一直搁置的所有事情,我们将开始拍摄一切,我将开始向你们展示所有的一切。感谢你们的观看,我们下个视频再见。 Process finished with exit code 0


如果你选择使用真实的植物,你需要在你计划使用它们的两周前购买它们,以便清除任何化肥和农药: 从盆子中取出植物,用凉水冲洗掉根球上的多余土壤,洗涤叶子,用有机表土重新种植,让它们静置两周以消散任何剩余的化学物质,这些可以种植在基质中,或者放在重的陶瓷盆中。真实植物自然会增加环境湿度,如果养了真实植物需要注意减少喷水量。

蛇会挖土,破坏植物的根系,导致很难在爬箱里养活的植物。下图是一条越狱的王蛇直接把整盆盆栽的根系顶出盆:

假植相比真的植物有几个优势:

  • 不怕死
  • 容易清洁消毒(可以拿出来水冲,可以高温蒸汽消毒,可以上消毒剂)
  • 耐爬、耐拱

要注意假植的材质有时不合格,尤其在被红外灯烤的时候会释放塑化剂、染料等物质。如果没有可信来源,可以选用可靠品牌的爬宠专用假植。

假植内部通常有铁丝塑形,要经常看一看有没有(即将)断裂,断裂后可能裸露出铁丝导致严重外伤。

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