Ovophis monticola convictus

Let's put another one on the line Very Happy

My Ovophis monticola convictus male. I bought this animal this year. It's a captive bred male 2006 out of WC parents, Kon Tum province, Mang Chamm village. If all goes well i'll buy a female CB 2007 in a few weeks out of parents from the same location. Breeding with them will take a few years because this animal has the spectaculair lenght of 35cm and the new female something like 25cm Very Happy

Well, here it is!

Ovophis monticola convictus Omm5

Strange feeding behaviour Very Happy

These guys don't care about all the effort i put in to keep live plants Twisted Evil

His enclosure... way and way to big... ahh well...

Ovophis monticola convictus Nwt1

I'll use a misting system beside the regular nozzels to keep the relative humidity as high as possible (80% - 99%)

Ovophis monticola convictus Nwt6

And a empty enclosure on the bottom for the new female drunken

And this is what the datalogger tells me about the enclosure I always do this with new enclosures. I don't like the high tempature at night, have to figure out how to solve this.

Ovophis monticola convictus Nwt7

Jan

Very nice!
Here is my female O.m.convictus
Ovophis monticola convictus Monticola

Guest

nice animals Cool

,good to see you here also Jan Smile

Guest

those are some nice looking enclosures Jan!
not to mention these stunning snakes!
very nice Wink

Hi Jan, nice to see your cages, as usual..
you think, the humidity, stable as it is in this case is suitable?
just curios..

i have found them on places in malaysia where the RH dropped at day to 70% and the floor was on sunny spots (where you find them basking if you lucky) very dry...

cheers
M.

What it is the maximum temperature this sp could withstand in captivity without problems? I am looking for this sp but I fear our summer temps... My home can reach about 26ºC in the worst days. Do you use any tricks to lower the temperatures in Ovophis terraria?

Thanks

Hi, sorry for late reply, I just saw this now.

Some people say that it is essential to lower the temperatures through the night, eventhough temperatures rise at day time. So if you have 26°C, temperatures should fall at least to 17°C at night. But I never tried this, so temperatures at my ovophis are around 22-23 at day and around 16-18°C at night. I wouldn't take a risk.

But I can understad you that you want them so much Very Happy

So when I was thinking about them I came up with idea how to cool them down. One thing is deffinatley - keep them close to the floor Wink

But if this doesn't do, you have some other options you shopud try. I didn't try it yet, but maybe sometime ...

So the idea was to get myself old refrigerator and put in 30-40 litres of water (how to put them it's up to you - there are many ways). Then you make a hole in the fridge (just the size for tube). And you put both ends of tube in the water, but majority of it is outside (and the metal part is inside terrarium). Here I draw one picture:

Ovophis monticola convictus Hlajenje

So ... green tubs are from gum (as it is isolator) and gray is metal, so the cold can go out and in the terrarium. The black thing is water pump that starts on timer at night. It would be possible to make thermostat too ... THe metal part should be on upper side of terrarium as cold air is going down.

This is only idea and it is not tested yet. If I would do such thing I would deffinatley try to improve it. But It can serve as a guide how to make it ...

I had one more idea, but it took much more space, so i won't tell it here ...

Cheers!
Anze

Yeah, keeping them close to the floor is something I want to do. I was thinking on something similar to your design. I need a method to lower the temps independently of the Ovophis, because of my Rhacodactylus geckos (which I own already).

Another option could be the use of cold water in a more or less large fog-humidifier (of the type used for a room) to lower the night temps and add humidity. I have a friend who uses one of these with his chamaleon and works (and the chamaleon enclosure is large). I will think on it.

Anyway, thanks a lot for the help Smile

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