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ive been wanting a gtp for some time now and some of you are prob wondering why i havent done it yet? well i dont impulse buy and never will but ive been doing my home work and getting as much info as i can on chondros and ive even spoke with people who have had them and what they all told me is to watch out and be care full of rectal prolapse. well okay i no what it is now what can be done to prevent it. thats the only thing keeping me from getting a chondro. also what causes it,can it be reversed,prevented , and how often dose it occure?

1.07 blood python
1.02 childrens python
3.07 irian jaya carpets(aka west papuan)
1.05 rubber boa
3.07 rough scaled sand boas
1.05 female kenyan sand boa
1.07 male kenyan sand boa
2.06 african house snakes
3.05 tomato frogs
1 .06 budgetts frog
2.05 pipa pipa

I've had it happen once, a supposed cb animal only a few months old prolapsed, vet ran a fecal and discovered high numbers of one celled flagelites and started treatment, unfortunatly that animal died the same day

I've kept many chondro's for years and only had it happen once,
although I've noticed with other people that when an a chondro has a prolapse it is likely to have more,

however it doesn't happen as often as you might think,
I don't expect it to happen to my chondro's more than any other species I keep, just make sure the chondro you get is a healthy cbb

Jurgen

I've been keeping chondro's for 9 years now and have had this happend twice (with the same animal) As scary as it sounds and looks, it can be fixed. If you're keeping a lot of chondro, i think you will run into it at sometime, but it's not very common.
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Julian Garcia
Chondros Exquisite
Seattle,WA

My adult Sorong type prolapsed last year. There was no sign of parasites, she had deficated a couple of days before with no problems and had just eaten. I've yet to have someone give me any insight into why it happens. I think it just does. She's the only one that has, it was treated immediately, and so far...knock on wood...she has not done it again. That said, I'm VERY conservative on my feeding regimen now. I didn't feed a lot before, but now most of them get 2 weeks between feedings, and an animal that is just the size of the widest part of their body.
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