Adult Red, eye caps....help

[gargoyle]

I just got a pair of adult blood pythons at the show...the female looks like she may have retained her eye caps...

the eye looks like it has a bad rinkle on it (more than normal) and slightly puffy.

She's very aggresive so how do I get this off that won't traumatize her.

[Simon Sansom]

Hi Dana,

If she does have a retained eye cap, you CAN leave it on, and as long as she is properly hydrated and soaked during the next shedding cycle it should come off just fine. It's when you get multiple retained eye caps (One on top of the other) that you can have a problem.

Retained caps can be removed by repeatedy soaking ot moistening the eye and then very gently loosening it around the edges with blunt, smooth tweezers, or with sticky tape, wrapped sticky-side-out around a finger and just gently touched to the eye-cap to CAREFULLY pull it away.

But it may very well be best to leave it and make sure that she sheds properly next time.

Cheers, man!

Let us know how it goes.

Simon

[Beardonicus]

Not trying to be an *** here, but how about not buying unhealthy looking snakes?

[gargoyle]

thanks for the advice Simon.....Beardonicus so I will assume by this all of your animals are and have always been, right from hatching been in perfect health and you've never needed anyone's advice!

Thanks for the input!
DJC

[Beardonicus]

Ummm, no, but I have never knowingly bought an unhealthy animal and then complained about it. You should ALWAYS buy healthy animals. Buying unhealthy ones only gives the person whol sold them the incentive to do the same thing again.....why sell healthy animals? Someone will buy them anyway.

[gargoyle]

bought these buy the way from a post on this site...I just picked them up the seller misinformed me as too the health of the animals and at the time she was a little too tempermental to try to "closely" examine her with the number of people around...she's very aggresive and not tolerent of any movement, most likely due to the eyecaps....anyways that all is besides the point, I'm looking for ideas to help the animal, I'm not looking for an argument about your checklist for buying animals now am I... If you do have any ideas I'd love to hear them...

[Beardonicus]

LOL...you're not making it sound any better. If someone lies to me about the health of a snake and I go to pick it up, and the animal is not what they told me it was, I DON'T BUY IT! Did this person put a gun to your head and force you to purchase the animals?

[sneak]

Hey, Doppie Dave, quick being such a jackass know it all sarcastic bitch!!! When someone has a question or a problem, you come across like an arrogant *******. Can you be more helpful instead of putting someone down? People come to these boards, like myself, to get help or to learn, and not to be treated like some moron. I'm a newbie to herps, and I would like to learn as much as I can without having some wannabe know it all to put me down without helping me out.

I know you were just banned from another board for your childish behaviors. Act like an adult, and not like some pimpled face high school boy who got his *** kicked everyday in school.

[Beardonicus]

LOL......pot meet kettle.

[gargoyle]

Thanks Sneak....my thoughts exactly, I am almost about to give up posting any questions at all solely because of Jack asses like that!

I quess some people never mature!

Dana J. Cofell

[daver676]

gargoyle clear out your PM box.

[Beardonicus]

Come on people....are we adults here or not? You gonna cry because someone said something that made you think instead of spoon feeding you the answer to everything? All I was doing was trying to provoke thought so you don't make the same mistake in the future.

[gargoyle]

And you must be the "all knowing" to do with herps then....so teach us something, you haven't even suggested an answer to any question that I've seen you post on... all you do is trash talk to people....You must have a serious self esteem issue if all you can do is "try" to knock others down...If you don't have a useful comment how about next time you just think it..

I know that I speak for a few people here in saying that personally I don't think you know how to do anything other that piss others off. All of your comments are totally rude, ignorant and un-called for. I sure am glad that there are a lot of good people on these sites but people like you just give a negative image to anyone that reads your posts....grow up and do something constructive, you sure aren't here!

[Beardonicus]

If you think my comments here were of no use and un-called for, then no amount of advice will help you. I was trying to get at the root of the problem.....would you have the need to start this thread if you had purchased healthy animals? You admitted to KNOWINGLY purchasing unhealthy animals, so that leaves YOU to blame for your own actions.....no one made you buy those animals. You could have very well said 'no thanks' and bought healthy ones. You chose to not go the proper route and then seem bewildered....???.....I'm am by no means a know it all....and I have often found that that is a lable that people throw out when their own mindset has been challenged by another who brought up something they did not hink of. My main point was: be more careful of what you buy in the future. If that means nothing to you, then you are the one who needs to rethink your situation.

[foman]

It's just an eye cap, it's not like Gargoyle went out and bought some snake that was on it's death bed.