Ganja got new digs

How did it go?

Thinking of the little one..

She is still shedding. She has always been problematic with shedding. I wish I could make it more than 100% humidity in there but I think it more stress than conditions that makes her take so long to shed.

Not sure if you do it or not but injecting FT food with water helps a lot. I inject Pat's food and shedding or not, i keep his humidity around 50-70% and he sheds in 1 piece every time no problem. It's more about their actual hydration than it is about the relative humidity as the shedding is more about the liquid between the old skin and new skin aka the 'going into blue' everyone says which is actually the body liquid separating the skin.

But some snakes do take awhile to shed. My big boas take about 2 weeks to shed where as Pat and the little boas are done in about 8 days.

Thanks Sauzo. I have no real reason why she is always a bad shed. She is really hydrated and drinks like a drunk fish. I always inject her food and the humidity is in the 90s when she is in shed and upper 70s when not. I just uncovered the UV light 2 days ago and hopefully it will start helping.

I can only assume it due to the complications she has gone through. This shed seems a little better and is not so spotty but she is still working on it. It may have something to do with not producing the proper "oils" to completely separate the shed . I have never had to soak her to get shed off but it has taken 3-4 days every time and it comes off in several peaces.

I don't really worry since she does eventually shed but I would love a complete shed but I take what I can get.

Well I'm sure all the 'issues' the past couple months isnt helping her. Antibiotics really throw a reptile out of whack. I know when Rosey was on Fortaz for a month, she lost her drive for food and only ate once half heartedly, had some bad smelling and runny poops and overall wasnt too happy. But once the stuff was done and out of her system, she slowly got her appetite back and got her system on an even keel again.

As for UVB, I'm sure it will help. I mean it wont hurt. I leave Pat's UVB on 13 hours a day but i also use a 5.0 through a screen so it gets diffused a lot. I do catch Pat sometimes sleeping under it though all day long.

Yeah I am going to up it to 6 hours starting tomorrow since she actually seems to respond really well to it. I am actually surprised how effective it is to their activity level. I am using a T5 high output but it is only a 12 inch bulb so not too powerful.

It's 4:30 and I am woken up to "Ganja pooed". Of course I instinctively panic because those words for the past many months were followed by frantically putting on gloves and breaking out the lube and I wish that statement was funny but it meant treating a prolapse :(

Well I go to check and what do I see? Some poop and a sizable amount of urate

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/3xL7760.jpg

Then I check Ganja. She looks all wrinkly and has shed on her still. Trust me that part is ok, she has had terrible shed for the past 4 months and I will eventually work on it.

I did not dare try and take out the perch because just reaching in, she would lunge at me so she stayed right were she was and I broke out the hook. This picture is as far as I could coax her without causing too much aggravation

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/MeMTJwn.jpg



The important part of this picture is the right side. It is her tail in front coiled tightly and her ventral area wrapped tight around the perch.

I did take a front facing camera picture but it is dark and my hands were shaky because she was tracking me something fierce trying to take this so I took what I could. This is the back side of the same shot as above showing how tightly she is holding to the perch. There is no red bulge (she would be loose hanging if there was).

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/OffeniO.jpg


This shows she does not have any cloacal prolapsing out. It means the surgery worked. It means she pooped like a normal, average snake. I means I can now hope for the best.

It means I now can say for once without just guessing only to have it still happen, she pooped and did not prolapse.

It's 5 in the morning and I am barely awake typing this so if none of these words make sense that's why. I am going back to bed.

That's such good news that the surgery has worked, congratulations

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So happy everything :tp: came out all right. Pun very much intended.:D

here's to many, many more uneventful poops. [emoji4]