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Re: desperate .. new owner in need of help
I loove Caramel!!!! she is a beautiful snake. My advice is this.....I would not give up on continually offering food. Forcefeeding is VERY stressful on a snake, and if perhaps you are to quick to start forcefeeding, then the process of getting them to eat on their own will take even longer. I know you are worried, but it looks like Caramel has good body wieght, and snakes can go without food for a lot longer than you think. I had a lil bugger outta the egg who took four months to start eating on his own!!! I had to forcefeed him three meals, only cause he was losing weight. My advice to you? Keep trying, offer a small live prey item every 10 days, don't handle her at all(I know it's hard), and get a gram scale to keep an eye on her wieght. (available at Walmart) Eventually, she'll come around.....they always do. Good luck and to the forum too! Enjoy you're stay!!
ALL THAT SLITHERS - Ball Python aficionado/keeper
breeder of African soft fur Rats. Keeper of other small exotic mammals.
10 sugar gliders
2 tenrecs
5 jumping spiders
paludarium with fish
Brisingr the albino
Snowy the BEL
Piglet the albino conda hognose
FINALLY got my BEL,no longer breeding snakes. married to mechnut450..
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Re: desperate .. new owner in need of help
Are they housed together or seperately?
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Re: desperate .. new owner in need of help
Originally Posted by elevatethis
Are they housed together or seperately?
Took the words right out of my mouth!
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Re: desperate .. new owner in need of help
My money is on "together", we'll wait for them to respond though!
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Re: desperate .. new owner in need of help
That was my supposition as well!
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Re: desperate .. new owner in need of help
... yeah they are together. i dont exactly have the space to house them separately... do you think i should make an effort to get them separated? I feed them separately... but they are indeed housed together
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Re: desperate .. new owner in need of help
Originally Posted by Lauren
Sorry guys... yeah they are together.
Thats the problem right there. The larger one has established dominance and the resulting stress on the little one is why its health is ailing.
If the smaller one has contracted RI, it is highly contagious and will eventually infect the other one.
i dont exactly have the space to house them separately... do you think i should make an effort to get them separated?
You will need to make the space or re-home one of them. In your case, it's truely a matter of life and death for both of them.
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Re: desperate .. new owner in need of help
That could be the problem.......what kind of caging do you have them in right now????
ALL THAT SLITHERS - Ball Python aficionado/keeper
breeder of African soft fur Rats. Keeper of other small exotic mammals.
10 sugar gliders
2 tenrecs
5 jumping spiders
paludarium with fish
Brisingr the albino
Snowy the BEL
Piglet the albino conda hognose
FINALLY got my BEL,no longer breeding snakes. married to mechnut450..
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Re: desperate .. new owner in need of help
They are in a 10 gallon tank... yikes i had no idea that it would be that detrimental to their health to be housed together :/
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