wretchedprocess
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...Probably not. But still.
I've been having a bit of a rough time lately, and my beloved slitherbugs have maybe not been getting out enough. They are maybe, in some cases, gaining a bit more weight than would be ideal. I am working on reversing this trend. One of them is tongue-flicking at me from beneath my blanket as I type. But I have noticed that some of them are getting normal hips, and some have a couple of bilaterally symmetrical bumps, two up on each side from the tail. The first pair look like normal, albeit smallish, hips, but there's a bit of an indentation, and then there's another bulge right above.
I may have been slightly disingenuous with the title of the thread-- both of the double-bump kids are male, but both of them are also orange (one is a hypo bloodred and the other is an amel). Both of them have jack-o'lantern water bowls, and the others don't. There are plenty of random similarities among any two of the lot. My sample size is small-- I currently have five corns. So the sex is potentially as meaningless as the colour or the bowls or whatever. And the double-bump-hip guys are separated in my stack by one normal-hips girl and a little scrawn who never seems to really bulk up, and I've had all the snakes in my house for at least 2 1/2 years. So... what's that about? They all seem totally healthy. It really seems like a fat distribution thing. Why are a couple of them doing it differently? Is that a thing? Since two of them have the same issue and it seems entirely natural and innocuous, I question the value of taking them to the vet. They *feel* like fatty deposits. But is there something going on besides that?
Thoughts?
I've been having a bit of a rough time lately, and my beloved slitherbugs have maybe not been getting out enough. They are maybe, in some cases, gaining a bit more weight than would be ideal. I am working on reversing this trend. One of them is tongue-flicking at me from beneath my blanket as I type. But I have noticed that some of them are getting normal hips, and some have a couple of bilaterally symmetrical bumps, two up on each side from the tail. The first pair look like normal, albeit smallish, hips, but there's a bit of an indentation, and then there's another bulge right above.
I may have been slightly disingenuous with the title of the thread-- both of the double-bump kids are male, but both of them are also orange (one is a hypo bloodred and the other is an amel). Both of them have jack-o'lantern water bowls, and the others don't. There are plenty of random similarities among any two of the lot. My sample size is small-- I currently have five corns. So the sex is potentially as meaningless as the colour or the bowls or whatever. And the double-bump-hip guys are separated in my stack by one normal-hips girl and a little scrawn who never seems to really bulk up, and I've had all the snakes in my house for at least 2 1/2 years. So... what's that about? They all seem totally healthy. It really seems like a fat distribution thing. Why are a couple of them doing it differently? Is that a thing? Since two of them have the same issue and it seems entirely natural and innocuous, I question the value of taking them to the vet. They *feel* like fatty deposits. But is there something going on besides that?
Thoughts?
