Re: just got bac from the vet and guess wat !!!! :( and name ideas
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Originally Posted by blackcrystal22
Haha I think that part was him joking about what the pet store would "tell him next".
Oh wow I hope so LOL
03-10-2011, 02:08 AM
Foschi Exotic Serpents
I highly doubt that snake is any older than 9 months. If it is, it was being starved..
Many stores do what we call maintenance feeding. This means just enough food to keep it alive. I bought a beautiful female BP from a kid who knew almost nothing about them. I figured she was about a year to a year and a half old. She was 600 grams. Less than one later she laid 6 eggs and had gotten up to 1600 grams before breeding. This leads me to believe she was older than I originally thought and had not been fed enough..
Yours being so small though... That's a different story. A 2 year old ball should be much bigger than that, even on a maintenance diet.
03-10-2011, 08:19 AM
sparticus
I had a similar story, I got my pastel from a guy on CL who had gotten him from a breeder in San Diego. Shortly after I got him, he started exhibiting signs of an RI so I researched reptile vets in Los Angeles and went to one in Studio City. The vet couldn't tell me exactly whether or not he did have an RI but the symptoms I was describing sounded like one so she gave me the antibiotic shots or whatever that I had to give him every 2 days (THAT was quite the experience LOL) I figured since I had gotten him on CL that I would double check the sex since the vet said she could probe him for $12 and she said she was 99% sure HE was actually a SHE. (I had this done in June '10 and the snake was born in 09).... so literally from June until now I am thinking I have a female .... well I recently learned how to pop and out come 2 hemipenes and sperm plugs. lol. SO MUCH FOR THAT!
The vet also told me that my snake could be allergic to the reptile specific aspen bedding I had him in.... (at the time I didn't know any better and believed her- i mean why wouldn't I she is a vet) .... lol I clearly know better now. But hey after the antibiotics the RI went away ... at least that's better haha. But when it comes to sexing, I like to actually SEE for myself.
