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New BP and breathing question
Hi, all.
After a lot of time setting up the enclosure and reading as much as I could, I finally got my BP.
I picked her up from the St. Louis Reptile Show last Sunday.
She looks healthy, although I'm pretty sure she's underweight.
I gave her plenty of time to acclimate to her new home.
Unfortunately, the kids want to see her and pet her and want me to figure out a name.
High side is running 92-94, low side is running 81-83, and the humidity is holding at 60%.
I fed her one adult mouse yesterday which she took gracioiusly. It did take her 3 tries to get a good coil for the suffocation to set in.
She spent the night in her cool hide and this morning, she came out to get a drink.
She settled down in the back warm corner (no hide) and has stayed there since 10:00am.
Enough rambling, on to my question.
I've noticed that it "looks like" she's breathing very heavily. When she exhales, her body noticably deflates.
I haven't counted her resperiations per minute yet. Does anyone know how often they breathe per min.?
Will she "deflate" excessively since she's underweight?
I don't have a scale, but she is very triangular shaped, not the nice round body that I've seen on other BPs.
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