Keeping it wet......

In the past, we have had some tragedies with new born Fiji boas. with this little survivor we are trying a new strategy - most of them seem to be born in May or June, a rainy time of year in Fiji. In case the problem we have had in the past has been dehydration, we are spraying this little guy with fresh water every morning. He seems to like it, rubbing his face along the side of the tank and drinking from the droplets.

There are dangers with this - if mold grows it could cause fungal infections, so we change the paper and clean his tank daily, and if he lies in too wet conditions too often he could get something called blister disease, but he has a dry bamboo climbing frame to keep him of the ground, and he seems to like it, so we are hopeful that this might be the right approach.