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DMong
at Mon Jun 30 23:41:27 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
So what you're saying is,....temps are 74-76 on the cool side, and only maybe 80 now on the warm side.......WHY??? the snake has been in the hide with the warmer temps you gave of 85-88 for a reason,.......the snake "knows" to seek out the extra warmth instictively to help combat the RI!!!,...if ANYTHING, keep the slightly warmer one of 85 degrees or so on her,...as long as she's WILLING to use those warmer temps for the time being...GREAT!.....see what I mean?
Also, DO NOT take her on the road trip unless she is still on the antibiotic regimen the vet prescribed,.....you don't want to lower her metabolism with any undue stress if you don't absolutely have to. If the extra heat is a concern, just raise the lamp some so it won't be as warm.
I don't know if you have mice of ALL sizes readily available at your disposal, but whatever the size, pinkie, fuzzy, or hopper will all be gladly consumed if it gets over the RI, just keep it very small,....any "smallish" sized mouse will do, if mice are what you usually feed it, just smaller than usual until it's digestive tract gets used to working again. I suspect that since you mentioned she is in the "early" stages of her shed cycle, that she just might be up to taking a small meal after she does shed. If the eyes just started getting "milky" looking, then it will be at least several more days until she actually sheds,.....also giving herself a few more days to get better before the small mouse offering.
One final word about... "how do you know when things are better?",.......the answer is as you mentioned, when it starts feeding voluntarily again. Also, if it finally DOES eat after the shed, it would be a very smart idea to keep her with the elevated temps for a good week or two beyond that point, just to make absolutely SURE the RI is gone. After you are SURE things seem normal again, and it has fed a couple times,......it would be better to keep the warm side at 82-85, as I strongly suspect the temps it was being kept at before all this were too low anyway, which is how things got to this point to begin with.
Things do sound to be much better than before, just keep close tabs to ensure they stay moving in this forward direction..LOL!
I certainly would like to hear that it finally ate after it sheds!..
good luck!, ~Doug
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- Yet another update - SirJorj, Mon Jun 30 22:02:58 2008
 RE: Yet another update - DMong, Mon Jun 30 23:41:27 2008
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