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Is this girl too thin?!
- Thread starter Drizzt80
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Tula_Montage
It's Jager time!
Just how secure is that poor excuse for a viv? I'm sure she could do a centipede on you and scurry out that!
tricksterpup
I has nuttin to Say.
Nice, Brent is this a new morph you are working with??
Weebonilass
New member
I think she might be... on horses, they say if you can see ribs they are too thin and I think I see her ribs.
RavenSpirit360
Mitakuye Oyasin
I think that theres a small chance you can save her with proper feeding, shes one of those new see through morphs everyone is talking about huh.. You have scaleless and now fleshless. LOL OH and I think you might want to get her medical attention for the broken ribs.. 
Too Funny Drizzt
Too Funny Drizzt
LostNFound
New member
I bet that she its nice having a snake that doesn't go blue!
Susan
Go Ahead, Make My Day!
Yeah, she might be a bit on the thin side. By the looks of the mouse in the jar that you're planning on feeding her, I would hazard a guess as to why you're having trouble putting weight on her. You must have really been dredging the bottom of your freezer to find that one. Hint! Hint! Time to place a new food order.
Tom Tuttle
Fightin the C
Now that's what I call one heck of a tough shed!
tricksterpup
I has nuttin to Say.
Hey Bret, is this one those new Scaleless Corn snakes I been hearing about?
Drizzt80
Dakota Corns
I knew you guys and gals would love it!! :eek1:
Back story (I'll try to keep it short).
There's a lady that teaches Biology courses at a local university who also teaches an evening water aerobics class that meets at the high school pool I coach at. Every season she reminds me that she would love to get a snake if I ever had one that passed away, etc. because she has some type (can't recall genus species) of carrion or flesh eating beetle in her lab that she uses often for this type of work. They apparently really love reptile flesh. Anyway, two years ago, she did a deer head for me, but I just never had a deceased corn (of size, non feeding hatchlings are probably too small for her) that I could pass on to her. Well fast forward, I had this adult Snow female that began developing a cyst/tumor in her abdomen area. It did not appear to affect her health, feeding, or her breeding before it was noticed, but I did start to notice that it was slowly getting larger. So I euthenized and passed it on to her last Spring. I never expected to see it again. She did notify me that the cyst/tumor was "stinky" and pretty gross, but she forgot to get pictures of that.
Anyway, fast forward to this past December when our new swim season began . . . she brought me what you see above! Told me I could have her back as her students were done working with her!! How cool is that?! I can only imagine the man-hours her students put into this crazy jigsaw puzzle. AND, she even told me they dropped it once and had to start over! Each rib is glued, and there's a few layers of lacquer. She did indicate that the bottom jaw did not survive the beetles for whatever reason.
D80
Back story (I'll try to keep it short).
There's a lady that teaches Biology courses at a local university who also teaches an evening water aerobics class that meets at the high school pool I coach at. Every season she reminds me that she would love to get a snake if I ever had one that passed away, etc. because she has some type (can't recall genus species) of carrion or flesh eating beetle in her lab that she uses often for this type of work. They apparently really love reptile flesh. Anyway, two years ago, she did a deer head for me, but I just never had a deceased corn (of size, non feeding hatchlings are probably too small for her) that I could pass on to her. Well fast forward, I had this adult Snow female that began developing a cyst/tumor in her abdomen area. It did not appear to affect her health, feeding, or her breeding before it was noticed, but I did start to notice that it was slowly getting larger. So I euthenized and passed it on to her last Spring. I never expected to see it again. She did notify me that the cyst/tumor was "stinky" and pretty gross, but she forgot to get pictures of that.
Anyway, fast forward to this past December when our new swim season began . . . she brought me what you see above! Told me I could have her back as her students were done working with her!! How cool is that?! I can only imagine the man-hours her students put into this crazy jigsaw puzzle. AND, she even told me they dropped it once and had to start over! Each rib is glued, and there's a few layers of lacquer. She did indicate that the bottom jaw did not survive the beetles for whatever reason.
Hope that all answered your question! I'd recommend seeing if there's a local university that could get it done for you. I think you can buy the beetles online as well. I'd have to get the name from her again. I remember looking once upon a time and they weren't cheap.
D80
Jeff Linkchorst
Snake Rambler
Let me guess. You have been feeding it crickets.
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Drizzt80
Dakota Corns
She wasn't fat by any means, but she was a "thick" 580 grams the last time I weighed her in before euthenizing. She was one of my first corn purchases as a hatchling in early 2002 at the store I used to work. She was via a wholesaler, so looking back with "what I know now" she could very well have been a 2001 hatchling. :shrugs: The skeleton doesn't look like "her" to my eye, so I'd have to say that comparatively it's smaller than I expected it to be. Of course, seeing some girls after egg laying, it doesn't surprise me either!
That help?
D80
