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SHvar
at Tue Oct 26 12:29:23 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by SHvar ]
It was kept for a while on different substrates, it was a flighty animal that I gave hides to, only they were small homemade hides, as he wouldnt burrow in the substrate I used for him. He ripped claws out when handled or stressed, he also ripped claws out escaping, or panicing and trying to run up the cage glass, he ripped them out on my gloves, and for a while they bled good, but the next day they appeared to be completley closed up ,in a few weeks he always grew a new claw. When I switched him to dirt, and offered large hides, and stacks, he stopped ripping his claws out completely, its amazing how much difference stress can make, just like breaking tail tips off.
To answer your question if the animal is healthy (physically), with some ability to hide or reduce stress (mentally) they should grow back, but that doesnt solve the root of the problem, sometimes it takes you to keep making changes until the problems stop.
Toes can also be lost to improper sheds on dehydrated animals kept with screen tops, alot of these animals in petstores never grow their toes back, as dehydration destroys the tissues and the gland that allows a claw to grow.
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- one more ? about nail loss - eyezsnake, Tue Oct 26 09:32:46 2004
 I had an Indo species once... - SHvar, Tue Oct 26 12:29:23 2004- Another possible culprit - mtbker73, Tue Oct 26 14:40:32 2004
- RE: one more ? about nail loss - St.Pierre, Wed Oct 27 00:35:34 2004
- The reason aluminum is used in soda cans, etc.. - SHvar, Wed Oct 27 12:45:29 2004
- RE: The reason aluminum is used in soda cans, etc.. - St.Pierre, Wed Oct 27 14:28:10 2004
- No - rsg, Wed Oct 27 15:12:43 2004
- RE: No - St.Pierre, Wed Oct 27 15:16:03 2004
- RE: No - cdanstan, Wed Oct 27 16:15:35 2004
- RE: No - eyezsnake, Wed Oct 27 21:23:25 2004
- Ill, say it this way, the jury is supposedly still out on it.. - SHvar, Thu Oct 28 10:06:10 2004
- Shvar - rsg, Thu Oct 28 11:00:21 2004
- RE: one more ? about nail loss - eyezsnake, Wed Oct 27 21:15:37 2004
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