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RE: Any help from experienced GTP fans?

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Posted by: MegF at Sat Jan 10 15:05:17 2009  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by MegF ]  
   

With young snakes I would not drop temps at all at night and 70 is very low. If you check out temps in most of Indonesia and New Guinea, they rarely drop below 80, even at night. I'd also keep your temps below 90. Grounding is not normal for chondros. Usually there's a reason. I have a couple that will ground periodically after I've handled them for photos or weighing. They will routinely hide afterwards and then come back out and perch at night. After a few days, they will perch all the time. Prolapse is not good. Get the tissue hydrated, try a sugar paste to see if it will retract. If it does, you can put a small fabric bandaid piece over the vent to allow the tissue to stay in place until it heals. The fact that it was starting to refuse meals is also not good. I don't know where you heard that chondros routinely refuse, but in my experience, I haven't found that to be true. Quite the opposite for the most part. They are eating machines. I would take this animal to a qualified reptile vet. If you have any fecal material available for testing for parasites, that would be helpful. Good luck with it.
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