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    What is this behaviour? Very scary. [Video]

    Hey guys. This is my BP, Paprika. This post is really more to satisfy my own curiosity about what happened, no emergency or anything. This video is from a few months ago and I'd had her for around 6 months at the time. I unfortunately struggled with a lot of incorrect information and advice and her husbandry was NOT what it needed to be. It wasn't absolutely horrible, temps werent too far off, but i admit humidity was a real problem with the glass cage. I could have done a lot better in the beginning and pribably prevented this by doing more research before purchasing her.

    I'm happy to say that she survived whatever is happening here and has no lasting symptoms or side effects. She went off food for 2 months following this but shes back on track now. No neurological damage that I can see, no wobbles. For a few weeks following this she was a little shaky but now shes fine. Thankfully I've mostly figured it out and she and my other 5 BPs (which I acquired after this incidemt) are properly set up in a rack. And no more carpet as substrate, yay.

    Anyways, on to the video. I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of her thrashing about in her tank. I didnt get it all recorded but at one point she was stretched as tall as she could and banging her head against the glass over and over. Then she syarted moving around in this weird jerky way. What the heck happened to her?!

    https://youtu.be/-W8RYLBXy2s

    (I feel like I need another disclaimer- as soon as I saw her thrashing I turned off all her heat and lighting, removed her from the enclosure and laid her.on my bed until she calmed down. I immediately called the vet and they told me to put her back and see if she starts thrashing again, and if she does to.record it so the vet could aee. Vet ended up being no help to me whatsoever in the end, they had no clue what this was.)



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    Last edited by Dezoruba; 08-07-2016 at 08:00 AM.

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