Denton line longicauda progression

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It's somebody's birthday! If I'm reading his breeder's page correctly, Kuzco turned one today. Hopefully there'll be many more birthdays in the future!

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So handsome! He's doing great! Happy Birthday!

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Got some nice pictures of Kuzco today. He's been very perky lately and is spending a lot of time perched out in the open -- apparently the narrow, telescoping sections of his cheap climbing bars are now to his liking. It's been nice seeing my previously reclusive baby out and about.

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Looking awesome, I can the true colours creeping in, starting to get some gold on the tail

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A certain podcast is having a calendar contest with a "boa" category, so of course it was photoshoot time!

Kuzco looks like he's gone through a growth spurt recently. He's definitely bulked up and gained a bit of muscle. He spends a lot of time perched and is a much more balanced and adept climber than he was a few months ago. I'll definitely be giving him a tall adult enclosure when the time comes -- I'm thinking 6'x2'x4' at least!

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Looking great, I love how iridescent longicauda are

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Looking nice! Won’t be much longer before he loses his baby colors. :)


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Somebody shed! Little man's growing like a weed... he may finally be ready to jump up to small mice from hoppers full time.

His development's become rather interesting as of late. His base tone is somehow brightening while becoming more melanistic at the same time. From what I understand, longicauda hypermel is polygenic, so it may be the case that he inherited at least a few of the hypermel genes from his mother. Time will tell!

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looking awsome
The blacks are really kicking in nicely and the silver is starting to pop, I loved it when mine started to get there adult colours

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He's definitely looking gorgeous! Can't wait to see him in another year. :O The color change is just about the best thing about boas in general, and some localities/morphs do it especially well.

He's looking great, Wrongpython.

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In other news, the new kitchen has A+ photo lighting. :D

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Beautiful critter and great photos!

Always dig boas and that is a beauty.

Nice update.

Looking great! Keep the pics coming.

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Locked, loaded, and 100% ready to eat tomorrow night!

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It's a bit harder to get nice, non-blurry photos at night, but I managed to get a few nice ones of Kuzco today.

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This handsome fellow has a great iridescence. Love the photos. Thanks for sharing.


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Somebody had a nice shed today!

He's weighing in at around 112g now. Hard to think he was only 60g when he arrived in March. All that growth seems pretty steady judging from the regular timing of his sheds, which are about every 60 days. He doesn't seem to be as prone to growth spurts as Adelita. She finally crossed the 200g threshold and weighs around 212g now. I heard longicauda could be slow growers, but I didn't expect the difference to be this dramatic, particularly compared to another locality boa!

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Looking very nice! As much as I like my boas getting bigger, I kinda miss them being really tiny like this. Super cute when they’re little


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My longicauda seemed to take forever to grow too
looking fantastic already

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Man oh man these photos are amazing.


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One week post-shed, and still looking (and feeling) fresh!

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Some days, I can't believe he's a visual normal.

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Some days, I can't believe he's a visual normal.

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Yes longicauda are awsome and 100% pure locality ad you say better than some morphs in contrast
And only get better with age

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So, there's been a bit of an odd development with Kuzco over the past 24 hours.

He was perfectly fine and active last night when I had him out for a handling session -- perhaps a little cranky at first since his nap was disturbed, but that's par for the course with him. Today, though, he's been hanging out half-perched on his bars, and his chin/throat is noticeably puffy.

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As you can tell from his gauge, my house got a bit cool and dry last night, though the temperature was still within the acceptable range for longicauda. Humidity has been the real problem -- my heater really dries the air out, and soaking/spraying the moss in his enclosure down hasn't produced lasting rises in humidity -- but he has a humid hide to use, doesn't sit out where/when it's damp, and hasn't had any issues with short-term humidity drops like this in the past.

I checked for RI symptoms, but I didn't find any glaring ones. I took a look inside his mouth and nothing's amiss there -- ie. no excess mucus or unusual redness -- and the puffy-ness is soft, not hard. There isn't any weezing when he breathes, either. He's not as vibrant as he's been lately and he's a bit lethargic compared to yesterday, but it doesn't seem too dramatic.

Has anyone ever had something like this set in so quickly? I've heard of some snakes getting slightly puffy ahead of sheds before, but he only shed a month ago. Either way, I'll be contacting a vet tomorrow and possibly bringing him in if things don't resolve or he gets worse.

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Yes, RI's can get bad quickly, but if he doesn't have other symptoms, I would wait on taking him to the vet.

If other symptoms develop; popping or wheezing, discharge from his mouth/nose, refusing food, etc. then I would take him in ASAP.

Boas are pretty resilient and tend to get RI's in bad situations compared to some other snakes.

For example, Yafe, my CP, got an RI from fed ex losing him in the cold. But Carpet's tend to be more susceptible than Boas.

You've had him for a while and your husbandry seems pretty good. I doubt one night of lower humidity would do it, unless something else is underlying.

Keep us posted, but IMO, if he hasn't shown other symptoms, a vet visit might do more harm than good right now. Again, if that changes, so does my recommendation.

Thanks!

The heat and humidity have admittedly been a problem for a few days. Between the first proper cold snap of the season and the heater running more often, the air in my flat's been a bit cooler and drier than normal since Monday. Running a humidifier hasn't helped all that much with the latter. Given that Kuzco was bright and chipper until her caught a case of the "zoomies" last night during our handling session -- seriously, he hasn't been so active outside of his enclosure for quite some time -- it may be that breathing in all that drier air is what's made him feel unwell.

For now, I've upped both his heat and the flat's heat, re-dampened his substrate, and put a new cover on part of the screen top to try to better keep some of that heat and humidity in. Hopefully all of that will help him feel a bit better! He was still alert and watching me as I did all of this, so he doesn't seem to be feeling too unwell.

In the event it's necessary, I was delighted to find that a new exotics-only/specialist vet clinic just opened up less than an hour away! Between that and the surprising number of ARAV-listed vets that are semi-local, I should be able to get Kuzco some proper help in the event he ends up needing it. I'll give him some time to see if he improves on his own, though. Hopefully this ends up being a case of catching something quick and ending it quick.

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More so, I hope it's nothing at all.

Good luck and keep us posted.

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Somebody's feeling fresh after his "spa night."

Whatever that odd puffiness was has gone away, much to my relief. No vet trip necessary. While I'm still not sure what brought him under the weather, my guess is that he had the boa equivalent of a sore throat and a bit of a chill from his out-of-enclosure activities the other day. I'll be limiting his excursion time for a while and keeping him in the "spa" for a few days to make sure he's over what he had. Thankfully, it seems to have only been something minor.

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Really glad he's OK, he's looking great, his blacks are starting to pop now[emoji106][emoji106]

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This little longi, I swear... some days I feel like I'm in Arboreal Prep School!

Kuzco's still feeling fresh and took what may well be his last meal of the year last Monday. He's definitely going through a growth spurt right now that seems to be more on the bulk-and-muscle side versus the length side. I'll be interested to see how much he ends up growing over the next few months, and how his growth spurt ends up comparing to Adelita's.

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I love it!

He's looking great, such a stunner
The head spear on longis are just so cool arnt they

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Going through a growth spurt, and yet still so tiny...

He's got an early present on the way. I hope he likes it!

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Looking incredible! I kinda miss my boas being that small honestly. They’re no less awesome though at 5x that size


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Very nice. This makes me miss having boas.


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Somebody's present finally arrived yesterday! He finally has his own UV light now, an Arcadia ShadeDweller ProT5. Hopefully he enjoys it!

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Very nice. This makes me miss having boas.


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You & me both!

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Somebody's been all perky and happy since he got full-spectrum lighting. Seriously -- for the first few days, it was like I had a totally different snake! I haven't seen him this content since he came home. Looking back, I seem to remember Adelita acting the same way when she first got her UV light. "Happy lights" indeed...

The cage cleaning and perch shuffling seems to have been appreciated as well. I shifted his favorite perch up higher, and he definitely seems to approve of this decision!

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He is one gorgeous snake! :bow:

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I thought someone was starting to look and act a little pre-sheddy. One fresh coat of paint, coming up!

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The main downside to full spectrum lighting? The rise in ambient heat can eat away at humidity. This means having to add moisture to substrate more often, which leads to naps being disturbed, which leads to cranky in-shed babies:

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Hissy fits may continue from within hides for several minutes after you're done.

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...and yet we still love them. :)

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Cool zombie sneks!!!!!


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Somebody decided to join Mama Quilla in the fresh-shed longi club!

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Somebody decided to join Mama Quilla in the fresh-shed longi club!

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Looking great[emoji106][emoji106]

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Somebody's happily working on his first meal of the year. Saved him a hopper-sized "small" mouse to restart his digestive system nice and easy, and things are looking good! An almost two month fast didn't phase this little guy one bit. If anything, he was a little more active than he was previously.

I was actually debating whether I should keep him on hoppers a little longer. He's a slow grower, and still around the borderline of being a true small-mouser. The mental dance of "should I get hoppers or smalls" delayed the kids' food order a bit, but recent developments may render this a non-issue - provided the world doesn't spontaneously combust around 12:00 EST/17:00 GMT tomorrow, of course.

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He always stares daggers at me right after a feed. No, buddy, I'm not going to steal your mouse or try to eat you. And no, I'm not going to give you another if the first one left that much of a lump! Glad I ended up adding a bag of hoppers to the Perfect Prey order for the forthcoming new addition, because the small mice I ostensibly ordered for Kuzco are actually seem to be too large for him at the moment. Either their feeders are beefier than normal, or my last supplier's feeders were undersized.

Kuzco will probably be seeing another feed sooner rather than later. He finally relaxed around me for a brief spell the other day -- he's still quite bashful and will puff himself up and flex his muscles a bit when I go to check on him -- and I noticed he's actually a bit skinny. I'm kicking myself for not noticing sooner and breaking his winter fast early, but it's not bad. An extra (fresher) mouse or two and he'll beef right back up!

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Kuzco was just so shiny, bright, and soft today. I guess some fresh food and a long nap in your favorite warm humid hide can do that to a longi.

His markings have definitely gotten more saturated and darker over the winter. They're very inky-black now.

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