I was told GTP babies/Juvies cannot do Bioactive Arboreal enclosures due to not enough airflow and potential respiratory infections.
Are there any juvi/baby snakes species that are more hardy and would enjoy a Bioactive Arboreal? I have misters and biochar, all the bugs and plants. It’s 3 sides glass one side screen. 16”x36”x36”
I really like jungle carpets but I haven’t been able to get a confirmation if that’s safe for them.
I generally would not advocate for a large bioactive for a baby of any species. It is not the whole “too much space scares them” thing you frequently hear, it is just that it becomes too hard to properly care for them when they have all that space to disappear on you. As a real life example, the final baby Candoia bibroni I located from my clutches last year was discovered six weeks after the second litter dropped. Myself and both of my daughters were scouring the cage at least twice a day for the first week after each litter dropped
You do not want to have that kind of “hide and seek” fiasco every time you need to feed or just check on your animal
An established juvenile JCP (say around a year or so old) should be large enough to easily locate in a cage that size and They tend to be pretty resilient beasts
Other alternatives would be a Papuan carpet, one of the smaller boa species, or something like a rhino rat or another of the arboreal colubrids. One caution there however, unless you have significant experience with venomous animals, I would avoid Boiga and Thrasops. Entirely too many people downplay the severity of the bites you can get from them
Travis makes an excellent point about putting a baby snake of any species into a large, heavily planted enclosure. Tiny snakes are incredibly good at hiding and wedging themselves into the most unexpected places. Which can cause a huge headache when you’re trying to monitor their health and growth…or just trying to locate them in the enclosure so you can feed them.
You can always grow up a baby for a few months/a year, and then move them to the bioactive once they’ve put on some size. Or you could look for someone selling an older individual.