New chondro... 2007 female Aru, named Gem!

[redshepherd]

I wanted to update with something crazy that happened just now in regards to handling Gem. I handle her pretty regularly (relative to GTP's I guess), maybe once every other week, sometimes once a week. She takes to it decently enough- nervous, but not going crazy, and even eventually relaxing.

Today, I took her out as usual, and as she was coming off the perch onto my arm, she seemed to suddenly go into a frozen trance. I don't know how else to describe it, but she froze stock-still like a statue and WOULD NOT move, not even her eyes or tail or neck, for nearly 5 minutes! Part of her body happened to be wrapped around my wrist, and her grip became stone hard and tight, cutting off my circulation, and I literally had to pry her off with quite a lot of strength. It was as if she died with all her muscles in place! After prying her off, she still stayed in this statue-like trance. Not even breathing hard enough to see. I put her back in her cage, and she continued staying in the same position for nearly 10 minutes... not even her eyes or tail moved. I was so worried.

Eventually, she started moving again, but was showing very unusual behavior compared to usual- kept sniffing the rocks and corner of her cage, instead of going back onto the perch. I've never seen or heard of this before. Has anybody experienced this before with a GTP or any snake? It's so unusual and honestly I was panicking a lot lol (partially because my hand's circulation was being cut off, and partially because she was suddenly a zombie).


Anyway, here are some normal pics of her... unrelated.