The roads were a bit icey monday so my mum and i took the snake back today and as we pulled in we seen the head, so i just told him that the temps in that particular viv where a bit too high. He asked how he could control them more so i went in for half an hour showed him the 888 reptiles site and pointed out a few things that he would need to pick up including ,a stat and a digi thermometer. He had a dial therm in the corns tank but i told him that not only where they not very accurate but because they stick on the wall dont measure where the snake actually gets its heat from.
I also showed him the care sheet on this website.
He seemed happy enough that i showed my concerns about the corn and asked wether i knew anything about royal pythons. I directed him to the care sheet on theroyalpython.co.uk, told him that he would need to replace the strip thermometer with a digital one and get a thermostat for that aswell. I told him how they could be fussy eaters and once all the temperatures and things are correct he may start eating.
He was a beautifull little thing but a little on the thin side.
The beardies weren't there they were at one of the teachers houses as he hadnt been able to bring them back into the school yet.
Hopefully when i go back in a couple of weeks he will have everything up and running properly.
Just got up to speed on the thread. Good to see some positive results (hopefully) happening. Have you mentioned to the head that he is more than welcome to join this site, TRP and thereptilian? All the animals will be covered then and he'd have experienced advice on tap when he needed it.
The head sounds very responsive to your advise and almost glad to speak to someone who knew what they were talking about. He obviously had concerns about the Royal since he asked for your advise on that too.
Thanks for bringing us up to date Danny and it sounds as though you got a positive reaction from the head....he was probably relieved to have someone who knew what they were talking about explain things to him once you had pointed out that the conditions werent as they should be.
Let us know how it continues...and as Paulusworm has suggested - mention to him about joining up if he really wants to learn more and do what is best for the reptiles that are ultimately his responsibility.
Well done Danny, you have done a really good thing.
Dilema
Posted - 23/02/2010 : 14:38:15
