marijuana and Savannah monitor!

nepoez · 01-11-14, 02:27 PM

So for some background. My sav had been a properly supportes guy since day one due to the info on this forum. He had been an active and fast moving sav for a long time. I was a proud owner.

4 months ago I moved to a new house and he was in a still good cage of 8x4x4 feet. He continued to be the active brat who never stops roaming around and destroying anything he can. 2 months ago he started getting lazier and lazier and eventually gain weight and can't she'd it off despite of all the help I got on this forum.

Here's more info. Since we moved in we had smelled marijuana every night. I complained several times as its so strong I had to leave the basement at night. 4 days ago I finally took silicone to seal all the cracks and gaps from the offending neighbor. The smell stopped! Finally after 4 months of hell.

Here's the funny thing. The sav started becoming his old self a day or so after the smell stopped. He started climbing on the wood plank that he would not do for 2 months. Instead of laying around all day he started roaming around for hours trying to tear the cage apart. So far he's been back to his active old self for 2 days now. I don't know if its coincidence but I think the marijuana had an effect on him. If he continues to stay active for another week then I'm pretty sure its the drugs that's been sedating him all these months! I hope this is the case as I've done everything that's been suggested.

P.s. the tegu didnt seem to get affected although he wasn't in the house for as long as the sav. The sav did take 2 months of marijuana before getting lazy.

Call me crazy but I think constantly smoking second hand weed just might be the cause of his recent laziness! I'll post back in a week to report if he stays like this.

Mikoh4792 · 01-11-14, 02:31 PM

If another person's drug use is bothering those around him/her(in this case you) someone should put a stop to it, it shouldn't get to the point where you have to silicone your walls LOL. Have you tried taking legal action? Talking to the landlord?

nepoez · 01-11-14, 03:09 PM

I got the cops to come 6 times! They basically told us they can't do anything. They warned the guy and the guy smoked it right after, so I called the cops again and they said sorry we can't do much unless we catch him smoking it right when we ring on the door bell. I called the service started by the government who is supposed to take care of these, I left 2 messages and they never got back to me. So I had no choice but to seal the whole basement. Let's just hope the drugs is the reason why my sav had been acting lazy for 2 months...

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Originally Posted by Mikoh4792

If another person's drug use is bothering those around him/her(in this case you) someone should put a stop to it, it shouldn't get to the point where you have to silicone your walls LOL. Have you tried taking legal action? Talking to the landlord?

Mikoh4792 · 01-11-14, 03:12 PM

It's douches like him that give certain things a bad name. He's deliberately smoking it to piss you off or just has no consideration for others.

What does he say to you when you ask him to stop?

formica · 01-11-14, 03:36 PM

THC and other cannabinoids are known to be active in most animals as far back in evolution as sea-cucumbers - but, I have never come across any reference to a sensitivity so high that it could be effective second hand at some distance from the source

when you say you sealed with silicone, what exactly did you seal up? could it be that you have improved temperature or humidity stability...or something else?

you might be right, but it would be a first, and not an insignificant observation either

nepoez · 01-11-14, 04:59 PM

He's not doing it to piss me off. I didn't go see him because the neighbor lady already did and they are not nice people. That's why we got the cops to tell them instead but they have no regards to the cops either. Just glad it's over.

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Originally Posted by Mikoh4792

It's douches like him that give certain things a bad name. He's deliberately smoking it to piss you off or just has no consideration for others.

What does he say to you when you ask him to stop?

nepoez · 01-11-14, 05:03 PM

I sealed my entire basement to prevent my house from smelling like weed every night. No temp or humidity change. In where I live the humidity is 20-30% at most in the house. The cage environment is 80-100% humid and temp gradients are perfect. But It's now 4pm and my guy is still digging around, something he hasn't done for 2 months straight. It could be a coincidence but nothing else has changed except the weed smell, and when I say weed smell it's STRONG. Maybe if you use that for yourself you won't find it to be an issue, but for a non-smoker, that stuff stinks like skunk. Living with that every single day can't be healthy.

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Originally Posted by formica

THC and other cannabinoids are known to be active in most animals as far back in evolution as sea-cucumbers - but, I have never come across any reference to a sensitivity so high that it could be effective second hand at some distance from the source

when you say you sealed with silicone, what exactly did you seal up? could it be that you have improved temperature or humidity stability...or something else?

you might be right, but it would be a first, and not an insignificant observation either

Mikoh4792 · 01-11-14, 05:07 PM

any type of smoke is bad for your lungs, whether it be marijuana, tobacco, or plain old camp fire wood. I know what you mean. I used to live with a roommate that would smoke tobacco in the morning inside the house... and that's the smell I would wake up to. It's not bad if you're the one smoking but to others it's disgusting.

formica · 01-11-14, 05:13 PM

tobacco smoke is foul, I dont understand how so many millions (billions?) of us ever got addicted to the damn stuff

Starbuck · 01-11-14, 06:59 PM

Will be interesting to see if it is seasonal (if it happens next year) or of its truly an effect of the marijuana. Very interesting observations.... but I'm glad your guy is back to his old self.

KORBIN5895 · 01-11-14, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by nepoez

I sealed my entire basement to prevent my house from smelling like weed every night. No temp or humidity change. In where I live the humidity is 20-30% at most in the house. The cage environment is 80-100% humid and temp gradients are perfect. But It's now 4pm and my guy is still digging around, something he hasn't done for 2 months straight. It could be a coincidence but nothing else has changed except the weed smell, and when I say weed smell it's STRONG. Maybe if you use that for yourself you won't find it to be an issue, but for a non-smoker, that stuff stinks like skunk. Living with that every single day can't be healthy.

The days are getting longer.

nepoez · 01-11-14, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Starbuck

Will be interesting to see if it is seasonal (if it happens next year) or of its truly an effect of the marijuana. Very interesting observations.... but I'm glad your guy is back to his old self.

Anyone who's had monitors for several years would be able to comment on that I guess. This is my first year so I'd be interested in hearing about this too.

infernalis · 01-11-14, 08:59 PM

Reptiles do not have Cannabinoid receptors.

so it's nothing more than foul smells to them.

formica · 01-12-14, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by infernalis

Reptiles do not have Cannabinoid receptors.

so it's nothing more than foul smells to them.

Not all of the ones found in mamals are found in reptiles, but CB1 and CB2 are found, cannabinoid receptors are very very old, going back as far as 445 million years in our evolutionary history, they are found in every animal group (edit, maybe not amphibians), with a few insects having lost them