My rescued pair of albino burms

[maitre]

I rescued a pair of albino burms a couple months back. If you aren't familiar with my previous thread, this is what they both pretty much looked like when I got them:

Crusty eyes
http://i.imgur.com/nLEbg.jpg

Damaged skin
http://i.imgur.com/Qku1gl.jpg



Since I've acquired the pair, both have fully shed, knocked back a few rats, and look really great now!

This is what they look like now (male on the left, female on the right):
http://i.imgur.com/kpDxC.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/2a1fR.jpg



My male, Ace:
http://i.imgur.com/krP4Y.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/U3kKu.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XexBi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ciu6b.jpg

[maitre]

http://i.imgur.com/5xx9A.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Y8NdQ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/lEYiF.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YBj2l.jpg


My female (not yet named) knocking back a rat (slightly bigger than what I would have preferred but it was all the store had):
http://i.imgur.com/LS33G.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Gtjdz.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/eSCjX.jpg

Ate it like a champ!
http://i.imgur.com/cUIsv.jpg

[infernalis]

Stunning beauty... they look great now. KUDOS on taking them in.

[Reptile_Reptile]

they look great good job man, thanks for the treat too. Beauties!

[presspirate]

Beauties! We just took in one ourselves. Awesome Gentle Giants, aren't they?

[Marica]

Awe, they look so much better! :)

[stephanbakir]

Great job on the burms, they look fantastic now.

[Lankyrob]

Good job - they are looking sweet!!

[Steve'O]

Good work, nice to see you got them back to good health. They are nice looking burms, Congrats! :yes:

[RandyRhoads]

Can anything be done for the damaged skin?

[TeaNinja]

didn't you see the post shed pics randy? their skin and eyecaps look beautiful now.

[ilovemypets1988]

well done, they look really great now, nice job, as you havnt got a name for your female, how about candy as she looks as good as a piece of candy does lol

[NennaMeerkat]

You did an excellent job getting them back in shape, and you come out on top for having two absolutely stunning snakes.

[maitre]

well done, they look really great now, nice job, as you havnt got a name for your female, how about candy as she looks as good as a piece of candy does lol

I was thinking about candycorn because of the orange, yellow, and white colouration - but knowing she'll grow up and lose the orange, I'm tending away from that. I will think of something soon. My room mate has been bugging me about the same thing. She keeps asking me when I'll name the girl! haha

[RandyRhoads]

My albino burm had skin damage almost identical to that, he has shed multiple times and it's not cleared up. Is there something special you did for it?

[Wolfus_305]

Wow, they are looking so much better!! Good work! :)

[ilovemypets1988]

I was thinking about candycorn because of the orange, yellow, and white colouration - but knowing she'll grow up and lose the orange, I'm tending away from that. I will think of something soon. My room mate has been bugging me about the same thing. She keeps asking me when I'll name the girl! haha

haha lol, well i will say that your a miracle worker and i will also try to keep thinking of names for you, im also thinking of ivory or crystal lol

[maitre]

My albino burm had skin damage almost identical to that, he has shed multiple times and it's not cleared up. Is there something special you did for it?

Hey Randy, I didn't do anything special other than provide an appropriate environment for him to recover. The damage on my burms' skin was most likely caused by mites and, I would assume, were superficial. If your burm's skin is persistently mottled, you might want to consider taking him to a vet to make sure he doesn't have some form of scale rot!

[shaunyboy]

Stunning beauty... they look great now. KUDOS on taking them in.

^^^^^
what he said

cheers shaun

[RandyRhoads]

Hey Randy, I didn't do anything special other than provide an appropriate environment for him to recover. The damage on my burms' skin was most likely caused by mites and, I would assume, were superficial. If your burm's skin is persistently mottled, you might want to consider taking him to a vet to make sure he doesn't have some form of scale rot!


It happened while on christmas vacation. The bugger escaped his cage and found his way into the savana monitors cage and tried to eat him. To his and our suprise. The monitor bite the hell out of him, fended him off and fled to the closet. They aren't that bad just curious if there's anything I could do to help out.

[stephanbakir]

It happened while on christmas vacation. The bugger escaped his cage and found his way into the savana monitors cage and tried to eat him. To his and our suprise. The monitor bite the hell out of him, fended him off and fled to the closet. They aren't that bad just curious if there's anything I could do to help out.

How did the snake get out of his own cage and into another? Both enclosures would need to have significant defects unless it was human error

[Reptile_Reptile]

im guessing the monitor has an open top enclosure?

[stephanbakir]

im guessing the monitor has an open top enclosure?

I never liked those much, tried them for a while but in the winter our humidity drops like crazy and its a pain to regulate the humidity in these enclosures.
When i visited friends out of the Country i saw some pretty great looking open top enclosures though.

[RandyRhoads]

im guessing the monitor has an open top enclosure?


Good call Jr, you are right, Open top enclosure. It's my girlfriends sav. I know nothing about them. No idea if they require humidity or not. I'd get bitched at if I tried to modifiy it. But my albino burn had a sliding screen top (he's still small) and he managed to slide it enough to get out and slithered over to what he thought was an easy meal. Lol suprised him he got his a** kicked.

[maitre]

Randy, it sounds like the bites to your burm is more severe than simple superficial damage. The monitor likely punctured your burm's scales in several places an are likely scarred in those places now. You will have to wait a while for the scarring to go away. It should lessen with each shed but it will take a while.

Try to keep his enclosure more secure!! Snakes are excellent escape artists.

[dshin963]

Try to keep his enclosure more secure!! Snakes are excellent escape artists.

Yea they are, I heard rattling in Luke cage last night went to inspect the bugger was trying to get out... I dont have the clips for his lid I am planning on moving him to a bigger enclosure soon (a rubbermaid) so I simply weigh down his lid with probably a good 20-25 pounds of stuff on top

[Lankyrob]

Lots of the escape stories i have read start with "i never thought he would lift that much weight but....". ;)