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Message To: Hog In reference to Message Id: 2175414
Illright guys its time 
I strongly suggest getting a hold of the book, "the more complete chondro" auth. greg maxwell. it is the best book on the market and will walk you through the best answers to some of your questions, I have put up a few posts with a lot of information about GTP’s, I will track them down and reply to your post later when I have more time. but for now, specifically with your caging, allot of people insist on using "tall" terrariums for GTP’s, since they are arboreal, but with that allot of people struggle to maintain the proper temperature gradient, and humidity levels. some of the best breeders use about a 4x2x2 for adult females and 3x2x2 for adult females, (lxhxw). I wouldn’t recomend putting a hatchling in your 4x4x2 but you could get away with putting an adult in there, if you are experienced enough to maintain the temperature gradient. I consider myself pretty experienced and had trouble in the one 4x4 that I had, its tough. believe it or not baby’s thrive well in the "yearling arboreal tubs" I only recomend these because if plan on using your large terrarium it is a cheeper alternative to another terrarium and you can use it till the snake is a year or so old and then move it to the big with out to much trouble. and despite popular belief you can hold these beauties, you have to start handling them (very carefully though) when they reach about 6 months. the reason people don’t handle is because they are very easily injured when young and once they are old enough to handle with out too much risk to injury it is very difficult to "tame" them. If this is your first, what locality are you considering? I would recommend looking for a 6 month to 1 year old ARU, Aru localities are of the most docile, and easiest to handle, however, due to there docile nature they don’t have a "strong feeding response" (typically). sorong’s and Biaks have a strong feeding response, but are typically more aggressive and therefore harder to handle.
hope this helps, I will write more later.
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