My Rescued Emerald

[owen]

Heres an update for the emerald. For those that dont know his history I will summarize it for you


My friend bought the emerald as a CBB animal. Low and Behold a wildcaught animal arrives. I took care of it for a month or 2, It ate one frozen thawed rat, and then stopped. He started to deteriorate rapidly, and started loosing weight. My friend did not feel comforatable caring for this animal, so he gave it to me, because I was up for it. So I handed it over to my friend who has cared for a wild caught emerald that was considered a DOA six years ago, and it is huge healthy and happy now. So he has been caring for it. About a month ago we got it to eat a live dwarf hampster. It ate one since. on top of that he shed the other day too. so that is a good sign

UPDATE

Today my friend brought him into our store, He feels the animal is doing alot better. So I weighed the snake to find out how much flagyl I need. Hes about 4 feet and only 275 grams. So I got him weighed, and sent the info in. I will be getting flagyl probably within the week. After that I put him back in his bin. The whole time he was behaving like a WC Emerald should. He was very alert, and watched every movement. After a couple hours, I decided I would Offer him a F/T rat. after about 2 mins of making the rat dance. To my surprise, HE TOOK IT. Struck constricted and ate. He FINALLY took something that A) wasnt Live and B) wasnt a hampster. I am hoping the flagyl will help him in his recovery. I really like this snake, and am willing to spend what I need to get him healthy so he can live happily.

heres a pic, as you can see he is still very skinny. But he looks about 150 times better than what he looked like 3 weeks ago


THANKS

I really want to thank everyone who helped me with advice

CraigC, I honestly believe that this snake would not be alive to day if it werent for your advice. If he makes it or not, I want to thank you. I am obviously doing all I can to help him. But about 90% of what im doing, is advice that you gave me. Thnx again

The Tree Boa Forum, CraigC recommended me to this forum and it helped me alot too.

and of course all the members here who either helped, or at least said "your doing good owen"

enough mushyness haha thnx everyone

enjoy the update

	Wild Caught Wild Caught

[david]

im glad to here he is doing beter still looks prety sad but lets hope for a speedy recovery

[sirens5]

Are hamsters good food? I figure a rodents a rodent. I can't get my ball python to eat rats but he sure likes hamster. The one he had today I thought might be a little large he had some trouble getting started on it and pulled off the head a couple times but then he got it in the right position and managed it. It seemed awfully big but wasn't bigger around than he is. I imagine he will be hiding out digesting for a couple days. I hope your emerald does well it is a good sign if he is eating and acting alert. Such beauties they are!

[owen]

thnx for the replies guys. I dont know if hampsters are that good...but I heard dwarf hampsters being described as "candy for emeralds" I assume since people are feeding their animals rats, and have done research and still are feeding rats, then I would only guess that they must be healthier then hampsters

[louise]

that is awesome. thanks so much for helping him and caring.

[ssjsmits]

Congrats buddy, keep it up.

[sgrdolphin]

Way to go!!! It is so nice to see another caring person. Keep us updated.

[owen]

well its looking like im taking him to the vet. Originally we were gonna give him flagyl, but it only kills one type of worms. I talked to the vet and they will give him something that will whipe it all out

[froglegs]

Thats great Owen that this baby is shedding now and eating!! Your awesome for taking such interest in him and care of him!!! :closedeyes: I hope he continues to get healthy and that he does it quickly! Thanks for the update too...