Pet Store Progress!!

[Asbit]

So there are 3 different Petland Pet stores with in 1.5 hrs of me that I have been trying to work with to improve the quality of herp care(esp. for the snakes). Up until now 2 have made small improvements, paying better attention to sheds, checking them thoroughly and training staff on the importance of and how to remove stuck sheds, and making sure to house fewer snakes per tank and separate any snake that appears to be showing signs of stress.

So this past weekend(Sat) I go into one of the stores and notice that one of the juveniles they have does not appear to be doing very well, it is looking thin(back bone starting to show) and I get advised that it has regurged twice. Upon first regurge they separated it from the other two juveniles they currently have. Knowing that I have several corns and have taken on several that were under fed and in need of special care, they actually asked me for my opinion on what should be done with the regurging snake. I offered Kathy Love's regurge protocol and advise that it must be followed strictly, as the snake is in a danger zone for death. The snake is approx. 6-7 mths old but is so thin it resembles a shoe string and has already regurged twice, in fact it's skin is loose on it.

I then advised on how to set up a hospital viv, and what to watch for and that it should go home with someone where it can have a quiet stress free environment and not be handled. And that weighing when feeding is important to monitor it's recovery. The store manager thanked me very much, gave me his personal email and phone number and asked if I could send all information by email so nothing would be missed.

I had another function to attend shortly after that and advised I would send the info on Sunday. Sunday I sent the info and also offered that if they wanted me to I would take the snake home and try to nurse it back to health for them, so long as they provided everything the snake would need. The manager says he would love it if I would try to save the little snake and what all do I need, while I drove the 1.5 hrs to get to the pet store they gathered up all necessary items and pinkies for a 2-3 month stay for me to hopefully get it back to health.

I am so excited that all of my efforts to try and improve the conditions for the herps, esp. the snakes at the pet store is actually working.:dancer::dancer: Now if I can just save this little one!!

Here are several pics of it, any ideas on it's morph? My guess is Hypo or Miami. As the ground color is so very light almost a light grey and the belly checks are almost a pale taffy color. The eye is not a solid dark orange/brown like with most normals, when it is near a bright light and the pupil constricts the iris looks almost like it is a lighter color around the outside then it is nearest to the pupil. I apologize if the pics are bad my camera is dying and I am saving up for a new one.

Ity Bity(because it is as thin as a thick round shoe lace and only 11 gms) If you look closely on my thumb and wrist you will see the loose skin sagging at the sides of the snake.

Ventral Shot

Dorsal Shot (color representation is almost exact)

Side View(again great color representation)

 

[Hypancistrus]

If it is regurging and from a pet store, be careful putting it in the same vicinity as your collection. Having had a bad experience, every time I see multiple regurges, I think crypt... and you don't want crypt in your collection.

 

[Asbit]

I have it quarantined in a closet at moment in my bedroom, although there is a snake in my bedroom, do you think that is too close. Should I move it to a completely different room. I was maybe wrong in this thought, but I had thought that because the other two that it was previously cohabbed with are doing fine, that it probably was not crypto.

 

[Hypancistrus]

Some snakes carry crypt and never show symptoms.

It's probably just me being paranoid because of my own personal experience- just be careful!!

 

[Asbit]

This is the first time I have ever quarantined in a room within a room, all other quarantines have been in their very own rooms. I really was not sure if it would be far enough away from my King and now my gut is gnawing at me again. Maybe I should move, the corn in the guest room down stairs and move the foster corn into the guest room.

I am waiting impatiently for my 18 yr old to get my three shelf 30 gallon long viv unit built, but that will take until the end of the school year as it is a project for his cabinet making class, so he only gets an hr a day to work on it.

Then I need some sort of unit built that will hold the rest of the mismatched tanks and I will have all 9 snakes in one room as they will all have finished a min of 4 mths of quarantine some more than 12 mths, in separate rooms.

On the other note, any ideas on the morph of this little one??

 

[Asbit]

Ok Lauren it was eating away at me, moved the female out of the guest room and into the basement into the snake room with 3 others who have been here for 5 months, the female has been here for 4 mths and tomorrow night I will move my biggest female into the snake room she has been here for a year.

The guest room is now the foster snake's room. Hopefully, it was just cohabbing stress and to much handling that has caused it's problems and hopefully it was not in to close of proximity to my quarantined king, who has only been here for 1.5 mths, as I am really attached to it and do not want it to get sick.

 

[Sinsational]

Tisha,
I am so glad to hear that they are giving this snake to some one responsible to nurse back to health. That gives me a bit more faith in the pet stores out there. Please keep us posted on his progress! Good luck

 

[Hypancistrus]

As far as morphs go, looks like a normal, but miami-phase normal to me. Kind of reminds me of my miami Ray back when he was a little guy.

Good luck with him!