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Originally Posted by Sauzo

Hmm weird. Maybe try feeding him a small one every week. My BP girl usually fasts from the beginning of this month until around Mar/Apr but for some reason, she is going crazy and eating as often as the retic and she is curious like he is. Whenever I open her door on her cage and mess around inside, she pokes her head out and looks around too. I personally never really paid much attention to her weight as she ate when she ate but with all these people I see saying their 4' females weigh 2000g+, it makes me kind of worried. I mean she still looks good. Here are a couple pics of her fairly recently.
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When he eats he eats year round.

And your's definitely looks good to me that's about how mine looks at 1,380 grams. Right now he's really lean, so I'll take the weight gain/maintenance as a good thing and just temporarily up his feeding until he's gained some weight. When he flexes he looks lean like a boa constrictor. I'll have to weigh him when he poops, but he takes awhile.


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River ventured out to say hello. :) She was hoping for food, but alas I was empty-handed.


And here I thought she'd outgrown her hides. She still fits in them perfectly, doesn't even lift them off the ground. Won't be much longer before she does though, I don't think there's any leftover space in there.


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I borrow the heater for a few minutes and her heat falls by a few degrees and this is what I found. -.-

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She scraped up her scales pretty bad because she was barely holding on. I got her down and let her crawl on me and she seems to have calmed down. I was nice and warm from a recent shower, and she just sat there sniffing my hair and face before crawling back into her enclosure.


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Is she also wanting to climb up on things when she is out of her enclosure? Mine are just dying to reach the ceiling fan. There is a video of a guy in an Asian jungle looking for retics. He would find them doing a banana bunch imitation over a stream. When disturbed they would drop into the water and attempt to swim away with the current.

She's a retic so that goes without saying. Lol

She does climb the walls in her new enclosure but this is the first I've seen her clinging to her CHE. I haven't seen her on it since the photo was taken, either.


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Just switch to a RHP. Then you don't have to worry about it. I personally would be way too scared to put a CHE anywhere inside my cages.

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Originally Posted by Sauzo

Just switch to a RHP. Then you don't have to worry about it. I personally would be way too scared to put a CHE anywhere inside my cages.

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These cages require both a CHE and an RHP.


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As an update, her scales are still rough looking but nothing too major. If she shows any sign of an infection I'll take her to the vet, but the damage looks small enough it should go away after a shed. There's no open wounds at least. She's been soaking in her water dish, though, so it must feel a bit uncomfortable having all those peeling scales.

She's shed twice since the incident, the second shed cycle began within a week of her previous shed cycle and she's since shed that one, too. No more cycles and her belly is completely clear so I think it's safe to say she's fully recovered from the damage. :) These retics are definitely more prone to self-destructive behaviors than any of my other species, but luckily she has yet to do any outstanding damage. lol

Last I measured her, she was a few inches short of 8' but she's shed two or three times since then so I'll have to try to get another picture soon. She doesn't appear to have grown much just looking at her, so I'll probably wait on that.

This was during her second shed cycle, she was hanging out in her water dish and was coming to meet the camera to see what was going on.

https://68.media.tumblr.com/4e14df43...tato1_1280.jpg

Then when she touched it, she jumped back violently, splashing water everywhere and just staring like this.

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And some even older pictures that I just skipped riiight over.

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https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/600/32...05909f65_b.jpg


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Yes, at ~8' she STILL fits in those hides and they still don't lift off the ground at all.

Glad she's okay (: