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cjherps1
at Thu Feb 3 02:01:14 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by cjherps1 ]
You speak of one of the issues that helped drive the Barkers at VPI away from breeding Chondros. That is, that people often take fallacious information from stangers, or way overestimate the environmental conditions that little Chondros should be subjected to and ultimately take the wrong action to correct a bad situation when their little GTP exhibits a problem. A matter of fact, they described to me exactly what you are talking about-a pruning of the GTP's skin. Here is the answer they gave me when people would confront them with this issue: lower the humidity! Apparently, a lot of GTP keepers often over saturate their little snakes, though my GTPs have not had this problem, and when their skin starts to wrinkle, keepers figure that the snake is being kept too dry and then add more water/humidity until they manage to kill their GTP. They gave me the best explanation for their argument that Chondros don't need so much humidity-they are just carpet pythons that prefer to sit on a branch. I am not saying that this is your problem, but if you are misting your snake twice a day, the wrinkled skin is unlikely due to desiccation. The barkers actually told me that the best way to keep little GTPs is like that of a baby spotted python, or some other "lesser" python species, and not like a delicate flower petal. It has worked excellent for mine. Hope this helps.
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RE: Young GTP with Wrinkled Skin - cjherps1, Thu Feb 3 02:01:14 2005