Steeve B
04-02-03, 09:45 PM
Here’s a story I just have to share, just to show bad things can happen at anytime anywhere to anyone.
IV been sick all week so I relied on a friend to care for my personal collection at home, this collection consist of only cb monitors I chose as future breeders, I only hatched 2 out of 3 microsticus from last year, they turned out to be a pair. This is the only pair I know of in any collection, I lost there parents last year, needless to say they are very important to me. Today I asked my friend if every monitor feed, he tells me yes no exception, so as always this is an exercise to help him remember the species, so her I go asking about Jobiensis and finchi and so on then I ask about Microsticus. He says well I haven’t seen them; they must be in borrowing, so I ask him when did you last see them? He replies well I haven’t seen them yesterday and today. Now I know these monitors and they don’t hide, they have escaped there cage.
This is so sad, I fund them in the coldest corner of my house extension, under an isolation panel iv laid down to cut frost from entering, they where literally beside an ice patch almost frozen, as I picked them up I called my wife to show here the dead monitors, I was 100% sure they where dead, but my wife said run hot water on them.
So I did with the smaller one, to my surprise she showed sing of life so I placed her under the heat lamp, then I did the same thing with the much bigger male but nothing, I hade no idea what to do, still no sing of life after 10 minutes of hot water, by then the female was moving and appeared out of danger, but I was left with this life less male and really felt bad about this, I figured what do I have to lose so I started blowing in his nostril blocking the other and holding his mouth shut, in my hand I could feel his lungs inflating every time I blew, after five minutes my wife said Steeve let it go now its dead, she was right about trying to save them with hot water, and somehow I knew she was right again, as I realised this guy was over with, it broth tears to my eyes, and I was almost ready to put him in the freezer for good, I saw a small muscle spasm beside the rear leg, I continued blowing an extra five minutes then he became all rigid and took a puff of air on its own, I put him under the heat lamp 30 minutes later he opened his eyes, and 2 hours later both appeared as if nothing as happened. Aim so happy words can’t describe it
Iv learned a lot from this accident, hopefully you will too, but the one thing that strikes me the most, they had all this space to walk about and hide freely yet even in death they remained a couple. Doesn’t this make you think?
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IV been sick all week so I relied on a friend to care for my personal collection at home, this collection consist of only cb monitors I chose as future breeders, I only hatched 2 out of 3 microsticus from last year, they turned out to be a pair. This is the only pair I know of in any collection, I lost there parents last year, needless to say they are very important to me. Today I asked my friend if every monitor feed, he tells me yes no exception, so as always this is an exercise to help him remember the species, so her I go asking about Jobiensis and finchi and so on then I ask about Microsticus. He says well I haven’t seen them; they must be in borrowing, so I ask him when did you last see them? He replies well I haven’t seen them yesterday and today. Now I know these monitors and they don’t hide, they have escaped there cage.
This is so sad, I fund them in the coldest corner of my house extension, under an isolation panel iv laid down to cut frost from entering, they where literally beside an ice patch almost frozen, as I picked them up I called my wife to show here the dead monitors, I was 100% sure they where dead, but my wife said run hot water on them.
So I did with the smaller one, to my surprise she showed sing of life so I placed her under the heat lamp, then I did the same thing with the much bigger male but nothing, I hade no idea what to do, still no sing of life after 10 minutes of hot water, by then the female was moving and appeared out of danger, but I was left with this life less male and really felt bad about this, I figured what do I have to lose so I started blowing in his nostril blocking the other and holding his mouth shut, in my hand I could feel his lungs inflating every time I blew, after five minutes my wife said Steeve let it go now its dead, she was right about trying to save them with hot water, and somehow I knew she was right again, as I realised this guy was over with, it broth tears to my eyes, and I was almost ready to put him in the freezer for good, I saw a small muscle spasm beside the rear leg, I continued blowing an extra five minutes then he became all rigid and took a puff of air on its own, I put him under the heat lamp 30 minutes later he opened his eyes, and 2 hours later both appeared as if nothing as happened. Aim so happy words can’t describe it
Iv learned a lot from this accident, hopefully you will too, but the one thing that strikes me the most, they had all this space to walk about and hide freely yet even in death they remained a couple. Doesn’t this make you think?
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