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Jason
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That's reasonable guys. Thanks for the quick response. So do tapeworms, an intestinal parasite, really manifest themselves in reptiles as bumps under the skin? I am suspecting that this is some other type of subdermal problem or parasite altogether. My neonate GTP is growing quickly, and so is it's temper. Used to be the easiest thing to take out and handle briefly. Now I've been bitten twice. That is not a problem for me though, I have kept lots of reps and most have bitten me at one time or another, and this guy is a lot easier than my 7 foot long red tailed boa was. That guy bit me once (my fault, was holding a rat by the tail by hand, hey I was young and naive) and wrapped me. He was strong as hell and you can imagine me unwrapping him from my arm, starting at the tail, then trying to extract his very powerful mouth from my hand without breaking his teeth, all while bleeding more than a little, but not exactly profusely. It's funny now, but I wasn't laughing on the day. This guy just hits and retracts, warning and scared. They have some amazing teeth for such a small snake, I guess he is around 2 feet long now and the bite drew four beads of blood. I guess to be a successful snake living your life in the trees of a rainforest you need some impressive teeth to hold onto your prey. At least it didn't hurt. Don't know if I told you before but I am a bit strange when it comes to pain. I was in the navy for 4 years, went to war, worked for a vets a total of 6 years through high school and college, now live in SE Asia teaching science, learn Muay Thai with professionals for my other hobby, and I enjoy kicking hard enough to hurt myself, and even kind of like being kicked and hit (in the ring.) So a non venomous snake bite isn't going to be a big deal to me. I assume when it's grown it will be a different story, but hopefully with size it will lose some of the fear as well. Anyway good to be here and let me know about that tapeworm thing, it's an interesting question I'd like to know more about, will try to research it myself as well.
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