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Does anyone use a light for their tank that gradually turns on and off that simulates the real sunrise and sunset, rather than instead of instant on/off?
Do they improve the health of the critters you have?
I do. I have one for both of my aquariums and for snakes terrarium. I do however not know if it actually improves anything. At the pet store that I use, it was recommended however. I have them set on a timer and it takes about 45 minutes to an hour for them to fully turn on and turn off.
seeing adlers snake reminds me of when I was a kid...living in tropical queensland. My mother had a large bird aviary, with all these exotic, and expensive birds. We lost a lot to marauding, and wild, carpet snakes that used to get into the cage all the time. Drove my mother nuts all the time.
One particularly large fellow we measured after we had extricated him live from the aviary. He measured just over 11 feet long....which was very near an Australian record I believe.
Carpet snakes are considered quite harmless, but on the very rare occasions that they have bitten people, they levae a nasty, infected bite....no venom but these nasty looking barbs on the roof of their mouth, that are usually full of bacteria and crap.
One old timer said to me as a kid that people bitten can lose the limb from the resulting infection.
I dont know if any of this is true, but I have see snakes that are cornered get agressive. The ones in the wild have to be restrained at the head, and if they are bigger than about 7 feet, you really need a second guy to hold the tail
As rat catchers they scare the living bejeesus out of every rodent that lurks in your house. In the tropics and living right in the middle of a national park, we had to periodicallyclear out the carpet snakes that used to hide in our attic
I had an intersting childhood.......