I am new to the burm keeping, however, I have been keeping reptiles and snakes for about half my life (23 now, 12 when I got my first iguana). Due to this, my worst experancec is not with a burm, but with an iguana.

I had herd rumor of a woman looking for a good home for her iguana, (i live in a relitivly small town so unwanted lizards are not that common) so I thought that I would try to track her down. When I finnaly did, she was more than willing to get rid of the lizard. I made arrangements to pick up the iguana (which she said was about two and a half feet) and want to her house. when I got there the iguana was about two and a half feet snout to vent, not total lenght. The size was not a prolem, as I was accomidated for a full grown iguana, however, she was not. The iguana was in a 65 gallon aquarium (3 feet long, 2 feet tall, 1.5 feet deep). To top it all off, the iguana was suffuring from MBD quite severly. I took him home, and put him in his new cage for the night. The next morning, I called my friend, who owns a pet store, and brought it to him right away. We put two exo-tera 8.0 bulbs on him, make calcium and B5 solutions for oral consumtion and for his eyes and tried to get him to eat some dandielions. All our work was sadly in vien, he passed away sometime that night.

On a better note, the best thing is getting into burms in the first place. Owning a large snake has been in my mind for most of my herping years, and I seriosly started considering it for about a year and a half (with many visits to this forum) before I bought my snake. The burm shows a level of curiosity and intelegince that I have not seen in to many other snakes. I has already been a huge learning curve and I look forward to many many years with him.





Thanks,

Shane

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