Progression Thread - Levi the Snow

[cinnabunbun]

20 grams now, two 2g pinkies, gone in less than a couple of minutes. Cleaned his tank yesterday, so everything's nice and fresh, to a snake.

Pinkie #1

Pinkie #2

Home sweet home... hey that's cold side!! Ah well, he loves that mushroom rock. It glows in the dark!

 

[DollysMom]

So cute and eating like a champ!

 

[kickflare]

Oh my god *gushes* so cute~ Where did you get that mushroom cave from? Its lovely! XD my two are stuck with fairly boring looking tanks xD So jealous!

 

[cinnabunbun]

Oh my god *gushes* so cute~ Where did you get that mushroom cave from? Its lovely! XD my two are stuck with fairly boring looking tanks xD So jealous!

Thank you n_n and my tank is kinda simplistic really.

https://www.amazon.com/Exo-Terra-Glow-Mushrooms-Hideout/dp/B00OQPG2H0 I bought mines at one of the LLL Reptiles store here.

 

[cinnabunbun]

Some for fun pictures.

"did it hurt mam?" I donated blood for the first time today!

intense close up!! Sorry for yellowish light

20 inches long~

 

[cinnabunbun]

I sexed Levi today and to my surprise, He is actually a she! Whoooops. Unless I popped her incorrectly, when I first got the snow at Scales n' Exotics at Repticon LA. They sexed and said he's male. Huh weird.

She's in a shed, so no food today.

 

[DollysMom]

Levi is adorable wrapped around her toy. Corn snakes are easily mis-sexed. Everything still points to Cleo being female and Mandy laid eggs at the rescue, but mistakes in sexing happen all the time.

 

[cinnabunbun]

Hi! Long time no see and sorry for bringing a dead thread up. Gonna shed the old skin on this one.

Levi is now 40 grams, supposedly be on fuzzies, but right now she's doubling up on small fuzzies that totals around 7-9 grams per feeding every 6 days. She has shed about 3 times now and probably preparing her 4th one. I'm a little worried because this is the first time I heard her sneezing ): She sneezed twice or puffed her nose. I checked her cavities and she seems to be normal, if her mouth a little open.

Last Monday's feeding

second small fuzzy.

Sorry for the inactivity. I've been really busy with battling anxiety, going through therapy, moving, and work.

 

[DollysMom]

Cinnabunbun! Progression threads are never too old to be updated. Glad to see Levi eating and growing! She's looking great.

 

[axis1]

. . . Sorry for the inactivity. I've been really busy with battling anxiety, going through therapy, moving, and work.

No need to apologize. Life can get in anyone's way, unless you're dead, in which case life is over and can't get in the way! And you're too young to even be circling the drain at this point, so cheer up! LOL!

So now that you're back, glad to see ya! Levi looks good though from what you said I hope he doesn't have a cold. Check out your husbandry and the snake's total environment before coming to that conclusion though (when my Lilly was ready to lay eggs, I thought she had an RTI due to sporadic clicking and puffing up of her neck, but as it turned out, she was burrowing excessively and some powdered bark became impacted in her nostrils, which was alleviated once she finally shed! But even as she laid her eggs she had her mouth agape, which in combination with that zombielike stare they get when laying, appeared pretty frightening to say the least!).

In any case, please keep us updated!! (Hope you stick around!)

 

[Giga]

Aww, what a little cutie! Good to see she's eating well!

 

[Dahliasmom2012]

I love Levi! Gorgeous little snakey.

 

[WillowBug]

You have a pretty snake cinabunbun :dancer:

 

[cinnabunbun]

Ahhh, thank you everyone n-n; I'll have to take more pictures soon. Right now I dunno why but she has a very small piece of wood in her mouth :\ Not sure if I have to go to the Vet for her, it didn't get removed while she ate on Sunday.

 

[axis1]

Ahhh, thank you everyone n-n; I'll have to take more pictures soon. Right now I dunno why but she has a very small piece of wood in her mouth :\ Not sure if I have to go to the Vet for her, it didn't get removed while she ate on Sunday.

This sounds strange. Is she struggling to remove it, like scraping her face along the sides or the floor of the viv? If you can and feel comfortable doing so, try to gently grasp & remove it, if it looks like it can just be a piece of aspen or substrate (why do you think it's wood?).

Does anyone know why she shouldn't try to remove it? I can't fathom that it would be harmful to try to remove gently, but would rather think that a stuck piece of aspen could be worse.

 

[cinnabunbun]

This sounds strange. Is she struggling to remove it, like scraping her face along the sides or the floor of the viv? If you can and feel comfortable doing so, try to gently grasp & remove it, if it looks like it can just be a piece of aspen or substrate (why do you think it's wood?).

Does anyone know why she shouldn't try to remove it? I can't fathom that it would be harmful to try to remove gently, but would rather think that a stuck piece of aspen could be worse.

Doesn't seem to bother her none. It's a very small flake Sort of like when you get a piece of green or rice on your lips or teeth.

 

[axis1]

Doesn't seem to bother her none. It's a very small flake Sort of like when you get a piece of green or rice on your lips or teeth.

Is it possible to gently snag it with your fingertips? Something really small, if it's a foreign object, can cause HUGE problems if it remains in the wrong place, like in the corner of your snake's mouth. If not, I would just keep a very close eye on that! You don't want any foreign object, regardless of its size, to be stuck anywhere in your snake's mouth for any significant period of time, especially long enough to cause any bruising!

Just my opinion. But I hope it's nothing really serious!

 

[cinnabunbun]

Is it possible to gently snag it with your fingertips? Something really small, if it's a foreign object, can cause HUGE problems if it remains in the wrong place, like in the corner of your snake's mouth. If not, I would just keep a very close eye on that! You don't want any foreign object, regardless of its size, to be stuck anywhere in your snake's mouth for any significant period of time, especially long enough to cause any bruising!

Just my opinion. But I hope it's nothing really serious!

She's really hard to keep still, especially with the fact that she's deep in the blue right now. A friend of mines suggested to hit up the Vet to have it removed. I'm worried because I want to get it out, but she's going to get upset at me because she's pretty much blindsighted from the shedding procc, and think she's under attack.

 

[axis1]

She's really hard to keep still, especially with the fact that she's deep in the blue right now. A friend of mines suggested to hit up the Vet to have it removed. I'm worried because I want to get it out, but she's going to get upset at me because she's pretty much blindsighted from the shedding procc, and think she's under attack.

I would just be gentle and make some type of effort to remove it, especially if it will take you longer than a few hours for her to see a vet (if you have one at your beck & call, by ALL means have one take a look!). But in this case, time may be of the essence.

Maybe just try, very gently, to remove it. You may be pleasantly surprised at how easy it might be to remove (might have to be patient if her head is moving). Remember, besides for simply dragging the side of their faces along the ground or scraping it against the side of the walls of the viv, they don't have any digits to GRASP a foreign object with. So it MIGHT be stuck in a place that just may be difficult for them to dislodge it from.

Is it possible to snap a picture of? Although I doubt it would result in any suggestions which would differ from the one I am making. I'm just curious as to exactly WHERE this thing is. Is it large enough to cause Levi's mouth to be open, even slightly?

 

[Giga]

I've experienced 'foreign object stuck in mouth' twice, once with a false water cobra and once with a Kenyan sand boa. Both times were when the darned idiots freaked out at someone walking past them unexpectedly and open-mouth lunged into the substrate (which at the time was a recycled paper product I was trying out - turns out it's horrid stuff, do not use!). Result: snakes with nasty paper stuck on their gums, which quickly swelled up as it absorbed the snake spit. Neither snakes seemed bothered by it, but I didn't want to leave it there in case it lead to problems down the line.

Both times I put my brave face on, held the snake still with one hand and pulled the offending substrate out with the other (tweezers for the KSB, fingers for the falsie). The falsie was good as gold and hardly wriggled at all, but the KSB complained bitterly. I just took on a "gotta' be cruel to be kind" attitude and held him still despite him releasing rather unpleasant fluids onto me from his rear end.

I wouldn't bother with the vets unless you really can't bring yourself to hold her still enough - the trip will stress her out in and of itself, and when you get there the vet will just pull it out by hand anyway, in much the same way I described, they'll just dither less in the doing of it. In fact, if I hadn't seen the vet manhandle firmly manipulate the dear falsie to get his mouth open when we thought he had an RI (he didn't) I wouldn't have been brave enough to get the substrate out by hand as I'd have been too afraid of hurting him... In the end I was probably far gentler than the vet would have been!

NOTE: I have no complaint about the vet; she didn't hurt him and she gave him a thorough check over before concluding there was nothing wrong with him, it just looked rough when she pried his mouth open.