Dan Scolaro said:
Chuck, cannot you figure things out for yourself?
He's not contacted because I told him the snakes would die if he continued to feed them rat pups. So they did what I expected despite the initial vet exams showed them clean. And lets not forget the offer of a free emerald he declined. He is a good man also and will one day be successful with his emeralds.
Dan
**I did not contact Dan about the multiple vet visits, I was not looking for compensation, don't hold his inaction against him on that account.
You told me that feeding a 4.5' snake a rat pup is too heavy for it and it would wind up regurgitating. An adult mouse is smaller than the either girls' heads. My CBB male that I've had for some time eats rat pups, the other male (that I got from Dan) is doing fine eats f/t rat pups and is as puppy dog tame as an emerald gets. They're in great health.
You also told me that by confining them to a 10 gallon terrarium, they won't wander and wandering makes them regurgitate. These are 4.5 - 5' snakes we are talking about.
I blew off your advice because none of the other people I talked to, including my vet and the person I got my CBB male from, felt the same way about these things and I figured your experience level with them wasn't so great.
The third visit to the vet, after the Baytril wasn't doing anything, the vet told me that it could be wasting syndrome (a symptom of IBD) because they were getting so thin so fast.
I don't want to bash anyone. Dan really tried to help out and do what he could to make things right. I wasn't looking to Dan to be an ETB expert. I just don't think he had the resources for it and when the IBD word came up, I had to chime in.
I also don't want anyone going around thinking it's all that and a bag of chips just because people don't complain. I don't like to complain, I hate it when things don't work out. I was willing to take my lumps because I bought a couple of cost-effective emeralds and I knew the risk I was taking.
Just because nobody tells you that your fly is open doesn't mean that your fly isn't open. If something I sold had IBD, I would want to know so that I could look at my collection and start seriously segregating. It's an intense problem. I had no idea that it seriously could have been IBD before now.
I didn't post here to bash Dan. I posted here because if there is an IBD problem, I want to know. Before the one girl died, she was falling off the perch. I didn't think much of it because I figured it was because she was weak but it could have been neurologic.
