OK my burnt royal shed last night

It's hard to believe it's the same snake! I agree...she looks happy. =)

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Originally Posted by goldenburm

adizziedoll all i have is a cheap minolta dimage Z1 camera!

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LOL, well it works better than my Olympus 3.2 mp! Those are beautiful pictures!

mines a 3.1mp just has decent zoom and macro function!

mine cost 80 quid which i suppose is about $140 that was 18 months ago!!!

hi all, just thought you would like an update on mrs burnt royal, well 10 days ago I fed her and she initially took a large mouse as she has shown an aversion to rats, after that she took another large mouse, as I had defrosted a crawler rat with it I offered that too her a while later which she also took! so great we have a feeding head on!

Well last night I fed her again and she took a crawler rat right off, then another and then followed on with 2 large mice!!!!

anyway heres a couple of very quick pics as I did not want to disturb her!!

http://www.livefoodshop.co.uk/forum/...6405_thumb.jpg

http://www.livefoodshop.co.uk/forum/...6436_thumb.jpg

http://www.livefoodshop.co.uk/forum/...6461_thumb.jpg

Thanks for looking



Peter

As always Peter I'm amazed at the strides you are making with this snake. She's not only healing better than I think most of us ever believed she could, but it seems she coming along to be just a wonderful solid feeder for you. What a difference you've made in this snake's life. You've earned your angel wings on this one buddy! :clap:

Joanna's definitely right about your angel wings. Between you and Beauty(I think that's Jessica, right?) you're making strides with all of your snakes.

Can I ask a question about burnt snakes? How does that happen? Why doesn't the snake move away from the place that is too hot?

I don't know about anyone else's burnt rescues but this is what happened with two of ours just for example....


Rauri the BCI was in a tank too small for his length (5.5 feet at the time). His only choice was to either lay immersed in a huge kitty pan of water on his cool side or lay on a huge heat rock on his warm side. He would try to move the pan of water or get in it, then wet he would try to warm up I assume by laying on the heat rock which was not regulated in anyway so it likely was far too hot or spiked heat uncontrollably. Imagine wet snake on hot rock and you get the pick...fried belly. To make things worse his supposed cool side was always damp due to the overly large water container being sloshed about so a case of belly rot wasn't far off when we got him. He came to us with about 3 feet of burnt belly though thankfully not to the point of massive damage like Peter's rescued BP.

Orlah the adult female BP came to us with a huge long healed scar down her spine. Our vet feels this was caused by direct contact with an unprotected bulb inside her enclosure when she was a younger snake. What the vet figures is that Orlah curled up close to what was likely her only heat source and it seered her back, when she tried to pull away it basically stripped the skin from her spine for several inches. It must have been a very painful injury.

She looks really good! You have done a wonderful job with her and glad to hear she is eating for you as well :)

Peter, you have done an awesome job with her!!