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ORLANDOHERPER
at Wed Dec 2 22:04:41 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ORLANDOHERPER ]
I purchased my San Deigo Gopher in november of 2007 at the F.I.R.E Expo in Orlando. She was already more than a year old when I got her, so now she is probably around 3 years. I moved to California in the begining of 2008. She has been perfectly fine for her whole life, and went through the normal fasting last winter. It was a couple of days ago that I noticed that something was wrong with her(however, she lost her appetite probably more than a month ago, but hasn't lost any muscle or has become lethargic). I picked her up and carried her downstairs and held her for a while, and she had little twitching in her head when she smelled the air. After a while of holding her, I put her back in her cage, and shortly after that, she just went berserk. She starts jumping, opening her mouth, hissing loudly, but the most scary part is the angles she put herself into, upside down and such. Now, it lasted for a bit, and she crawled back into her cave a little after. Now, today, I cleaned all my snakes cages, put new aspen, etc.... and I picked her up and held her for a bit, still has little twitching. Then I put her back in and she starts doing the same thing, only a bit more vigorous today. She just really went crazy. She has never had any behavioral problems in the past, and has never even musked. During the last time she went crazy, she excreted musk (which is no big deal). I was trying to research, and there isn't much on gopher snake problems, but I was thinking it could be some sort of respitory disease. However, I never hear her exhaling at all, except for when she went crazy the two times, so this is what really puzzles me. I have her in a 20 gl tank, with a pillow heater under it (yes this is bad, however it does get pretty hot, I can feel the heat right on top of the aspen). I'll be getting a UTH soon for her, and just put a heat lamp on. She has a fairly big water bowl, so she can soak/swim if she wants. Another thing, is that I have been puting a drop of water conditioner in the water bowls of my snakes as well.
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 My SD Gopher Has Sudden Problems - ORLANDOHERPER, Wed Dec 2 22:04:41 2009
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