what's going on with her?
ok when me and my wife were going through checking all the snakes we have noticed this girl laying inverted a few times but this time she spilled her water and the last part of her... well i will let the pic do the talking. what do yall think is up.
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...e/inverted.jpg
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k2l3d4
Is your lady prego??????
no i forgot to say that she is not prego in fact the clutch she laid hatched about 2 weeks ago.
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idk, maybe she had still had some in her from the last lock. maybe shes prego again?
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Qetu
idk, maybe she had still had some in her from the last lock. maybe shes prego again?
is that possible?
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blackcrystal22
Is she constipated?
i dont think she is but just in case my wife is soaking her in a warm bath to see if it loosens anything up. i palpated her and didnt really feel to much in her.
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Has she recently had a large meal?
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rabernet
Has she recently had a large meal?
she is the animal that i did a thread on about a week ago that will only eat mice, so her meals are like 3 med mice at a time.
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dmaricle
is that possible?
I am not sure about BP's and I know that Garters can store sperm for about five years. :O
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Hi,
If she laid already this year then I am fairly sure she can't be gravid again.
She might have retained one of the eggs which is causing a blockage but the time since she laid ( about 74 days I'm guessing ? ) might also make that unlikely.
I did have something similar happen to one of my girls a while ago.
Is the mass kind of soft and mobile when you lift her?
dr del
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thats the thing there is no mass that i can find, and if she had a retained egg i would feel it i think but im keeping a close eye on her. thanks.
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Hi,
I'm sorry for not being clearer. I didn't mean a solid mass as such - simply the swelling in general.
If you pick her up by the tail and close to the front third of her body and tilt her so that her head is higher than her tail then the other way round does the swelling move?
Natasha was mainly full of pee and it was quite mobile.
dr del
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I have, on very rare occasion, caught non-gravid snakes that were opaque basking inverted--and usually with a spilled water bowl. I think they're trying to wet down their back. It's extremely uncommon, and I wouldn't think much of it unless it keeps happening.