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Aww poor girl. How the heck did she get a puncture under her chin in an AP cage? They are all smooth which is the reason I love them. And guess I can count my blessing right now as my boy in shed so he is quiet now. Last night he curled up pretty much in my armpit while I laid there watching tv lol. And today he curled up between my arm and my stomach while watching tv. He is such a mellow man...for right now lol. I'm sure after shed he will turn into an eating monster again. Anyways, I put a little polysporin on that just in case.
Not really sure how she managed that. When she pushes she's pretty assertive about it though. More of a scrape than a puncture. I imagine putting anything on her facial area is going to be quite the rodeo haha! Polysporin/neosporin you think? I had read somewhere on here to use betadine but I thought I'd keep an eye on it for a day or two and see how it looks before I stress her out trying to restrain her head to apply ointments. Already a bit better than yesterday, but she also just fed so that may have calmed her down a little with the pushing. She sometimes smashes her face in between the glass and the lip along the floor of the cage which is one of my first guesses as to how she got those abrasions.
That mainland blood must be keeping yours a bit more chill. My girl never sits still. Getting a non blurry photo of her is a pretty significant accomplishment.
Edit: managed to get some polysporin on those scrapes with a q-tip and minimal stress or struggle. Gonna keep an eye on it
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Re: Kalatoa 100% Pure SD Retic Progression (Pic heavy...)
I recently expanded her from half of a divided T8 into the full cage with bigger branches to climb around on and she totally tossed the entire space the first couple nights. She's calmed down a little bit she's been in the full enclosure for about a month now. She probably will need a larger space eventually as she seems that she'll reach the larger end of the SD spectrum. Maybe a 4x2x1.5 or 4x2x2 when she's grown up.
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Recent portrait of Phyllis that is started working on last night. This is the preliminary sketch for a more technically involved copper etched/engraved limited edition print I'm getting started this week (I'm an artist and teach printmaking at the University of Missouri-Columbia) I'll post in the for sale forum once it's done, and will be donating at least half of the proceeds to USARK once I get an idea if anyone/how many folks may or may not be interested and I can get an idea of how large of an edition to print. Please keep sales discussions to PM it until I post it in the appropriate forum. Thanks!
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Nice drawing and i'm sure Gio and I will be paying the price later when our guys want women. Ours will probably be tearing apart the cages where as your girl will be nice and calm lol.
Thanks Sauzo! Hard to tell at the moment but you and Gio's guys may be calmer given the larger % mainland blood and deeper generations in captivity. My girl's parents were WC imports from Kalatoa so Phyllis is a 1st gen captive bred. Definitely got some of the wild side in her hahaa. I'll post pics of the progress on the copper etching plate and respective prints as they develop in the near future. Anything to help protect the right to keep such an amazing species of snake!
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Basking under her RHP this morning. Been very active recently and did a good job of tossing her cage about last night. My guess is that she is speaking out about having smaller rats her last two feedings. 50g rats the last two weeks and she has taken 80-90 gram rats the two weeks before that. I trimmed her intake back slightly as she has been growing like a weed and don't want to power feed her and promote obesity but she will start to push at the cage corners if she gets too hangry. I'm giving her another 50g rat Wednesday and we'll see how the next week goes, any pushing or if she stays calm. At her growth rate she seems she will be a fairly impressive sized Kalatoa SD. She could hit 6-7 feet and start thickening up a bit or she could very well end up 9 feet. She's definitely not going to be a giant but a 7, 8, 9 foot snake isn't what I'd consider small either. I'm guessing 6' by her first b-day but we'll see...
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Mines about the same size. The parents were 6 feet, but were wild caught. Glad to see mine isn't the only crazy growing super dwarf out there. I'd be happy if she stopped at 8, but we will see.
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Mines about the same size. The parents were 6 feet, but were wild caught. Glad to see mine isn't the only crazy growing super dwarf out there. I'd be happy if she stopped at 8, but we will see.
Yeah dad was 5' mom was 6', I think imported in 2013? Likewise, 8' for our girls would be nice but I won't be surprised if either of them reach 9' at this rate
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