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Old 04-24-13, 06:05 PM   #1
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Meet Demeter, my rescue honduran Milk snake

So i just brought home Demeter today, an adult female honduran milk snake. I found her on craigslist; apparently she escaped early this winter (late 2012) and turned up OUTSIDE (!) in february 2013, and the original owner ( a young girl, 14 yrs) said she couldnt keep her anymore. According to the owner, the snake has not eaten or shed since she was found....
However, she was being kept with NO supplemental heat, and a relatively small water bowl that i dont think she could soak in all the way... also with a single tank clip :P

I have her set up in quarantine, in her original 75+ gallon tank, with only paper towel substrate, her original water bowl, a new waterbowl with hiding space underneath it, a large humid hide made out of a folgers coffee tub, a stick that came with her tank, several tank clips, a light for heat, and am working out the kinks on an UTH.

She is also (to my eye) pretty freakin' fat, so i think that combined with the cold temps she was in, plus some latent brumation may be whats causing her to not eat. I will try her this saturday with a F/T mouse (original owner says she ate FT).

Below are some pictures of her skin scrapes and scabs, i presume from when she was out. It also looks like she may have had some fristbite or something on her tail, or stuck shed. Hopefully being warm and humid will get the ball rolling and she will be back in shape in no time.

Quarantine is being enforced.
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0.1 Jungle Carpet "Bhageera", 2.0 Corn snakes "Castor & Pollux", 1.1 Cal Kings "Lux & Nyx", 0.1 Honduran Milksnake "Demeter", 0.1 Rosy boa "Neki-monster", 1.0 Axolotl "Grendle", 2 tarantulas, 0.1 Leopard gecko "Remus", and a freezer full of mice (and Rats!)….
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