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omg! this is so devastating! my new female gtp , is dieing! well she has been doing pretty well , i have had her for about a month now. i noticed she was beginning to have a respitory infection a few days ago , so i put some polysporin on it.n cranked the temps up a few degrees , but nothing drastic. well this morning i wake up , n she is hanging limply over the branches. i bring her out , n she start flailing around , w minimal movements in her body. she is really messed up! what should i do, it seems that mebbe her neck was fractured somehow , cuz i have no idea how she can be alright one day , n almost dead the next. please help me out guys , what should i do!
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John woodward
JW REPTILES

TAKE HER TO A VET ASAP
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-Chris

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RI's are very serious, and although some suggest that simply increasing the temps can cure an RI, I tend to disagree. Even with prescribed medications, there are times when RI's take there toll. It is NOT uncommon for chondros to die very quickly when RI's take over. I would recommend you taking your chondro to a knowledgable vet ASAP, but by your description of its current condition, this may be a bit too late. Most RI regimes take at least 30 days to complete and that's with an animal in "good condition". It always pisses me off when some one sells a person a chondro (more than likely a wild collected animal) unloads it quickly because they only live for about a month's time for they usually do come down with either lethal RI's or die from internal parasites.

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