OHhhhhhh GOTTA SHARE!!!

I wasn't expecting it to happen THIS fast but.......... :pinkele:

I won a local radio contest and one of the prizes was a gift cert to the (only) local pet store.

Took Raziel's advice and made it a point to talk to one of the floor workers about being available to rescue larger snakes if they get one. He said he'd talk to the owner and I left my name and phone number. That was on the 2nd.

Got a call this am from the pet store. Seems a man wanted to surrender his BP. He's even in my home town!!! Went and got "Fred". Cage needed cleaning, but I got the entire tank setup. Cleaned everything with Chlorhexidine. Looks like Fred is TRYING to shed. He's got skin pieces, it's loose around his neck. Only bad? thing is his right eye is SILVER... huh????? Anyone got any ideas?? Retained spectacles maybe?? He's quarantined and then will be going to the vet after his quarantine is up.

Question tho'......He's got a lid w/the black night light, a incandescent light bulb and a florescent tube light. Can I take the florescent out or should I take the incandescent out instead. Just for viewing.......

Thanks!!! I look forward to ideas about his eye.


I just HAD to share since he was free, 1020g and I got the whole kit and kaboodle!!! YAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Now to just get Pinky paid and shipped. :banana: :pinkele:

OooOoo congrats! Yah, I would say retained eye... get the humidity up and the next shed shall be el perfecto :) I dont like the whole scotch tape thing, but you may get some recommendations for it.

it's always exciting to get a new member, especially one that's free! ;)

Now, where are those pictures?????

Nice score! Only.. why wait for quarantine to be over for the vet visit? Typically it is better to get new snakes to the vet for a checkup sooner rather than later!

Congrats on the new snake! :taz: I have to agree with April(Shelby). Take the bp to the vet as soon as an appointment is available :)

Congratulations! I know you must be so excited! I also agree - vet visit doesn't have to wait for quarantine to be up! :pinkele:

I would probably give that guy a nice warm water soak straight waway, to get that shed off and possibly that retained eyecap, so you can start off on a good foot when the vet sees him. Is he thin? or does he have good weight on him?And congrats!!! "FREE" is my favorite four letter "F" word.....I personally have eight ball pythons, and out of those eight, three of them were free, and one I only paid $10 for!!! yayyyy!!!!!! Oh, and warm snakey welcome squeezes to the forum!!!! you've come to the right place.....

Congrats on the rescue!!! As far as the lights go, if they aren't for heating the cage, I would get rid of the incandescent bulb, and keep the fluorescent one.

Congrats!! Sounds like an exciting deal!

I was gonna suggest taking him to the vet right away, rather than waiting for the quarantine to be over...but that's already been said...a bunch! LOL And I was gonna say keep the flourescent bulb, too....but that has been said also.

Not much left for me to say but Congrats! :P

Congrats!! Nice catch!

Thx everybody!!!

Fred's weight is good. S/he's pretty bulked up so even tho the guy was feeding two mice at a pop, the snake's in pretty good condition. (He's big enough for a small-med rat. Next feeding I'll be trying the FT rats. If not FT, I have some rat babies that would be the right size.) The main reason I was holding off on the vet visit was for the one week no-touchy thing. Sorry...I didn't word my earlier message well enough. Quarantine will probably be the month to six weeks, but after the ONE WEEK of no handling, Fred will be at Dr. Fletcher's office. Which works out, because that's the earliest I can book w/Dr. F. He's the only reptile/exotics vet around here.

What little I know and have learned (thanks to this WUNNERFUL! site) I figured it's many spectacles over the eye. I'm not fond of the tape idea but I've got the temps on, & I'm boosting up the humidity. (Dork didn't have any thermometers or hygrometer in the tank but said he didn't have any problems. HUH?! < How'd he know? *grumble grumble grumble* :tricho: > but I know what the temps and humidity are NOW.

Even added another hide for the COOL side and as I change the bedding, I'll be going from the desert gravel stuff to the aspen, so that should help. Only thing is, it's MUCH easier to see the poo and urates on this stuff, as compared to the others' homes. PPTHTHTHTHTHT :zerb:

It's still exciting. I just wasn't expecting it to happen so soon. :D But hey! I'm NOT complaining. Free IS a cool four letter word. :)

Are you going to get Fred probed?

I've heard a lot of stories locally where people were told that they were buying a male or female snake only to find out later that it was the opposite. Maybe you will find out that you got an even better deal if it is a female!

I wouldn't wait for a week to take Fred to the vet. The no handling rule should be implemented after he passes with a clean bill of health so he can start feeding regularly again with no worries about any other possible issues.

Just my two cents. :)

Jason

oh yes, I'm going to get it probed. I'd very much like to know so I can put the sex in my records. I'm also going to make an appt time so that Dr. F can teach me how to do it safely. I popped Kishnah, but I know w/balls it's different. If this rescue becomes more of a regular thing, I'd like to know how to do the probing. :)

Yeah it would be nice to know how to correctly probe ball pythons...my little one still goes unidentified, however "shes" too fiesty to probe. Tries to tag me every time I clean her cage.

LOL Hmmmmmmm Sounds like another Pissy Snake! How FUN! :rolleyes:

Poor FD isn't allowed to call him by name, but when ppl ask, I tell 'em I have a snake with attitude. :D P Snake is his name for a REASON! lmbo

Snakes happen when you least expect them. ;) Even/especially when you're planning for them!

Soooo, "Fred" went to the vet this morning. Dopey meeeeeee, forgetting working, kid to school by 8:15 and vet @ 9:30 and trying to sleep, WHEN???

Any-whooooooo According to the vet's scale, Fred is only 960g even tho mine said 1020 last week. No mouth rot, good scale health, no mites. Even with the shed being in many, MANY pieces, nothing was retained, except one spectacle, and that came off very easily w/a little help.

Now comes the fun part :rolleyes: Fred is really "Fredericka" lol I'm still going to call her Freddie for short, but the male is actually female. Now all I have to do is wait for P Snake to get bigger, and maybe I can get some babies. :D

I'm looking into digi cameras so I can post pics of all the rest of the babies here. :) :) P***y was sold as a stripe, and Freddie has a stripe down the last foot or so of her tail. I like her pattern and would better enjoy getting breeding husbandry experience on normals instead of expensive morphs. *sigh*

Just an update. Even if I have to beg, borrow or steal, I hope to have pics of the rest of our snakey kids online SOON!


R.

So my vet probing advice was right! Winner winner chicken dinner! Congrats on Fredricka. :)

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So my vet probing advice was right! Winner winner chicken dinner! Congrats on Fredricka. :)

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Jason, you're hilarious!!! :P I didn't disagree at all w/your suggestion of getting it probed. I'd much rather have KNOWNS than UNknowns. :) :) I may be getting bit in the behind by trusting the one particular breeder (w/P Snake) but the other critters I believe to be what they were stated as. As for CeCe and Oreo, I'll have them both probed once they're a little bigger, and I'll be taking Felix in for his "introduction" here soon.

I talked w/Dr. F. c. MY learning how to probe, and he was sort of flippant...you know......."Oh, there's nothing to it, you just pop, :blahblah: :blahblah:." That sort of thing. So I think my next "unknown" will be a vet visit where the vet watches ME do it. Then I'll get my own set and get some practice.

The funny part was watching Freddie leave piddle / musk / urates aaaaaaall over the scale as the vet was trying to pop her. hee hee hee :devilish: But I DID leave the vet a Freddie poo present. :D

Now that I'm getting quite the little slithery family, I need to come up with a better method of record-keeping. I'm using 3x5 cards, but have found that the feeding fills 'em up pretty fast, and the separate ones for "medical/vet" will just get lost in the shuffle of the individ. files. Hmmmmmmmmmm

thx for listening. :)

Congrats on your new female BP! Nice find there! For record keeping we use the Degei program www.degei.com You can download it the evaluation copy and see if it works for you before you decide to buy it (very reasonably priced). The eval copy will do all sorts of things, though the full version unlocks the rack stuff plus breeding record keeping portions. I love my Degei and couldn't keep track of the scaley wonders without it.

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Congrats on your new female BP! Nice find there! For record keeping we use the Degei program www.degei.com You can download it the evaluation copy and see if it works for you before you decide to buy it (very reasonably priced). The eval copy will do all sorts of things, though the full version unlocks the rack stuff plus breeding record keeping portions. I love my Degei and couldn't keep track of the scaley wonders without it.

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I second that! :)

Degei loves anal record keepers...<3 Degei!

Thanks, but that's not going to help much right now. :( I don't use racks and my snakes aren't ID'd by number (at least not yet....maybe once I start breeding).


I'll look at and mess around with the demo in more depth, but the preview that I've tinkered with so far isn't something I can use right now. *sigh*

Thanks though. I'll keep looking and trying. Keep up the suggestions. Ideas never hurt!

R.

you could write the notes with pen on your skin. pick a limb for each critter... and just never bathe again!

:D hahahahaha you said to keep the suggestions coming!

:P smart @$$! But those are the sorts of comments I make, too, so they don't upset me!! hahahahahaha :giggle: