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Buck_99
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 Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:38 pm Post subject: Fastest Way to Get a GTP Off Its Perch |
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...grab it behind the head. I had to do it this morning to my Biak to put some triple antibiotic ointment on what appears to be a cut. I thought I'd grab her head and she'd stay on her perch, but I was wrong. She immediately flung herself from the perch, wrapped twice around my arm, then tried brushing my hand off her neck with her coils. Very stressful for her, but it was in her best interest.
Didn't know it would be so dramatic or I'd have taken video. My apologies.
In these pics you can see a brown discoloration on her forehead. She has a lifelong scar there (looks like a single scale patch where there should be many scales), but it has always been yellow. I'm thinking prey cut her.
Anyway, that's one new thing to add to my bag of chondro tricks, though it's one I'll use only sparingly because of the stress it causes.
BTW, check out all the black and blue coming in on her. Black dorsal scales, and an overall light blue along her sides near her belly. In the bottom left hand corner of the second pic you can see it sort of lining her green scales. Interesting. Three and a half years old and she's still changing. Old picture for comparison (yeah, she already had some black and the blue shading, but it was less pronounced then):
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NickMyers03
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nice buck...love the american flag in the backround of the last pic...
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jb.t3ch
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doesnt look too bad from the photos. is this something that will "shed" away or is it deep? good luck to her.
how are their temperments now that youve had them for a while, getting better? were they ever bad? seems like they dont mind too much being handled.
i can imagine you cant exactly unwrap them that easily from their perch, do you wait til they come down or just unwrap them gently?
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Buck_99
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| J_Snakz wrote: | | i can imagine you cant exactly unwrap them that easily from their perch, do you wait til they come down or just unwrap them gently? |
Depends on how badly I want them off the perch, and depends on the individual. It's more art than science, but in general, it's best to let them come off the perch on their own, but you can encourage it by making the perch less inviting, mixed with some gentle unwrapping. The one sacred rule is never force the tail. Their tails are extremely delicate, and if they're 90% off but they've still got a firm grip on the perch with just their tail, you need to be patient and wait. Better that then to cause a spinal kink. Sometimes I'll tickle the tail with my free hand in this situation, part of making the perch less inviting than my arm.
I try not to handle them unless I have some time on my hands because it's like they can tell when you're in a rush, and when they're rushed, they tend to grip the perch all the more and it ends up taking longer.
Same thing happens in the reverse: once you have the snake in your hands, good luck getting him off...now YOU'RE the perch!
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