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HogBilly
at Tue Dec 15 14:45:03 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by HogBilly ]
Alright, I'm at work but I'll give a few pin notes:
-I was told the RI was caused by the mite stress by my vet. Either way it only happened once right after I got her, and has not since. It is not a recurring problem.
-her bowl is large enough for her to completely submerge. She's not always in it, and isn't even in it often.
-She hasn't really made use of the wetbox this time and prefers her two dry hides, it is a plastic box with one hole large enough for her, with wet towels that I've been changing daily. Could switch to moss, but I'd have to get a ton more for her. 9ft girl's kinda big, though I can do it if I need to no problem.
-I was told by Bob Clark that she's been on dry aspen her whole life before she came to me and water pythons are fine with it. Are paper towels I keep clean that different from dry wood chips?
-her appetite IS great currently. She hammers food on a regular basis.
-her skin 'springs back into place' as if she's hydrated.
I think I'm trying to bullet point out that I'm not sure why you're jumping to a hydration problem. Once the tricamonads cleared she's been eating and digesting perfectly, with no symptoms of anything for most of the year, and now one bad shed means I'm doing everything wrong?
Don't take this the wrong way! I'll be glad to look into more hydration options if that's an issue. Just confused.
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1.0 speckled kingsnake
1.0 leucistic texas ratsnake
0.1 tricolor hognose
0.1 water python
0.1 spider ball python
1.0 green tree python
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RE: Water python with wrinkly stomach? - HogBilly, Tue Dec 15 14:45:03 2009