Posted by Albert on February 01, 2010 at 16:20:30:
In Reply to: Re: cycling females/urates posted by norm on February 01, 2010 at 14:36:34:
Norm your general husbandary and management seems efficient,
if this is possible we can assume your ETB has not been exposed to
pathogens and like Joe mentioned that unlike domestic animals, most
wild animals, including reptiles, tend not to show outward signs of
disease until the illness is fairly advanced.
Norm as you know ETB are specialized arboreal snakes that may only
defecate once every month or even less if you are cooling or should we
mention brumating them they will not be maintained within the optimum
temperature range for the species and this could cause impactation.
Hypersecretion* of urates leads to Hypermotility* a percursor to
copulation.
Norm with your background you should be able to get a Gram stain -
microbiologic culture and sesitivity testing done to check and identify and
quantitate the presense of gram-positive and gram- negative bacteria
which can be collected from the material produced, this will give you a
presumptive diagnosis to initiate therapy if needed.
Good luck , Al.
Check out the babies*