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Calabar ground python
scientific name: Calabaria reinhardtii
| Cites status: | Cites Appendix II, obligation to keep records and to register! |
| Geographical Extension: | West Africa |
| Habitat: | from moist tropical forests to rain forests |
| Size: | up to 100 cm |
| Life Expectancy: | over 20 years |
| Reproduction: | 2-4 eggs, incubation period at 29-31°C approx. 34-45 days |
| Temperature: | ground temperature between 26-28°C, local heat spots up to 30°C. Night setback to 22-24°C. |
| Humidity: | 70-80%, temporarily also over 90% e.g. "Sorry Link missing" |
| Lighting: | Daylight fluorescent tubes e.g. "Sorry Link missing" or "Sorry Link missing" |
| Substrate: | loose, absorptive substrate (see "Sorry Link missing"). More cage substrate should be used for filling as this species likes it to dig itself in. |
| Cage Furniture: | a firmly affixed water container, hiding and climbing facilities, as this species likes to climbs and does it well. |
| Terrarium Size (for long term care): | 0.8x0.5x0.7 m (LxWxH) |
| food: | freshly born mice and rats |