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RonCrawford
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Joined: 04 May 2006
Posts: 2008
Location: Pottsville, PA (USA)
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 Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:26 am Post subject: Urates or super glue, which one is stronger? |
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I'll put my money on urates any day! 
It's utterly amazing how they adhere to surfaces like glue. What's even more amazing to me is the fact that urates can literally stick to the surface in a bowl filled with water! I've cleaned cages where a ball python urinated in its water bowl and after dumping the water out, there remained a clump of urate stuck on the bottom of the bowl. I have to physically take a metal object and scrape it from the bowl to get it off!
Has this happened to you yet?
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lindsey_marshall00
Joined: 05 Jul 2006
Posts: 568
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I have had to replace 3 hides and 2 logs because poo is glue. soaking it will not make it come off. That is why I have switched to using cardboard hides, right now a coke fridge box, perfect size when cut in half.
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deborahbroadus
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Joined: 16 Jul 2006
Posts: 6679
Location: Baltimore, MD
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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| lindsey_marshall00 wrote: | | I have had to replace 3 hides and 2 logs because poo is glue. soaking it will not make it come off. That is why I have switched to using cardboard hides, right now a coke fridge box, perfect size when cut in half. |
Why don't I have this problem? My snakes poo on the substrate and I pick it up. If they poo on the plastic (in the corner) I scrape it up. It comes up!  
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Kattywampus
Joined: 09 Sep 2006
Posts: 147
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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Woohoo, something else to look forward to! ^^;;
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lindsey_marshall00
Joined: 05 Jul 2006
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peanut has major poop issues, if it is in the tank he will not come out, if it is on his log, he will not go near it even after I clean it off, and if it is on his hide he does not go in. He loves to poo on his hide.
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slitheringin
Joined: 25 Jul 2006
Posts: 378
Location: Mountain Home Arkansas
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| lindsey_marshall00 wrote: | | peanut has major poop issues, if it is in the tank he will not come out, if it is on his log, he will not go near it even after I clean it off, and if it is on his hide he does not go in. He loves to poo on his hide. |
Eko is the same way. She poops in the hide, I know it right away. She avoids it like the plague. And she always does it there for some reason  . But urates? Oh yea; I'd stack it up against super glue any day 
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stumpy_wigmaker
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
Posts: 127
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K ive had my baby for18 days now(2weeks) she really hsan't pooped anything, shes eaten three time and all ive ever seen is little yellow and white thingd, they're hard but not big? is this normal, or is ther somthing much bigger about ready to come out? lol 
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slitheringin
Joined: 25 Jul 2006
Posts: 378
Location: Mountain Home Arkansas
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| stumpy_wigmaker wrote: | | K ive had my baby for18 days now(2weeks) she really hsan't pooped anything, shes eaten three time and all ive ever seen is little yellow and white thingd, they're hard but not big? is this normal, or is ther somthing much bigger about ready to come out? lol |
Oohh, you've got more coming, sweetie 
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deborahbroadus
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Joined: 16 Jul 2006
Posts: 6679
Location: Baltimore, MD
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| stumpy_wigmaker wrote: | | K ive had my baby for18 days now(2weeks) she really hsan't pooped anything, shes eaten three time and all ive ever seen is little yellow and white thingd, they're hard but not big? is this normal, or is ther somthing much bigger about ready to come out? lol |
YEP! listen to Debbie!
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Luke S. Tick
Joined: 30 Aug 2006
Posts: 181
Location: DeWitt, Ia
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Sahsa, on her last shed, crapped right inside the door of her hide while still inside. I was waiting for her to shed and saw she finally had, opened the tub and thought I'd find her curled in her other hide. No. Poor thing is stuck to the very back with the steamy pile trapping her. The hide, being on the heated end, had been capturing the vapors and holding them in.
I think I'll go put a couple pin holes in the back of those hides right now.
Luke
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deborahbroadus
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Location: Baltimore, MD
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The SNAKE was stuck?? Now, THERE'S one for the books! I don't have any interesting things to say that happen to my snakes...they eat, sleep play...that's about it.
Well, I have had 2 escapes last year, but found them i mmediately, not even an hour passed....nothing interesting happens to me! 
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Radical
Joined: 21 Aug 2006
Posts: 374
Location: Ontario, Canada
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| deborahbroadus wrote: | The SNAKE was stuck?? Now, THERE'S one for the books! I don't have any interesting things to say that happen to my snakes...they eat, sleep play...that's about it.
Well, I have had 2 escapes last year, but found them i mmediately, not even an hour passed....nothing interesting happens to me! |
how do snakes play?
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Luke S. Tick
Joined: 30 Aug 2006
Posts: 181
Location: DeWitt, Ia
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Sorry, worded funny. The snake wasn't stuck in the poo, she just couldn't or wouldn't go through it to get out of the hide. I cut back doors in all of them, and poked a few vent holes as well.
Live, raise snakes, and learn.
Luke
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garrettgaska
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Posts: 32
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i use shredded paper or aspin shavings and plastic planter pots from home depot so when they pooh it doesnt stick to the plastic and clumps up with the paper. and my bowls are stainless steel so every 2 weeks i throw them in the dish washer to disinfect and clean them.
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