Bearded Dragon won't eat HELP PLEASE!
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so if i had an alien in my belly i should drink some water and it will kill it?someone shoud have told Ripply.
loco,you said on another thread that you think its worth the extra 30-40 bucks for shipping on a corn snake to get a good one,dont you think its worth that much to take a herp to the vet just to make sure it hasnt had parasites for a while?I know prevention is a key but it wasnt prevented and somethings wrong know.she could chance adjusting everything and that could be great,i agree completely,i just think its worth the extra bucks to make sure,thats all im sayin.
A CB animal shouldnt have parasites in the first place. If one does, it should kick it out of its system pretty easily unless its a serious infestation.
If you get a CHEAP ANIMAL, youre going to spend a lot more on vet bills than you would a CB animal without them.
No one realizes how tought a healthy herp is. But most herps aren't even close to healthy, which is the problem. Ya'll just LOVE overcomplicating!
K.I.S.S. : Keep it Simple Stupid. Just a little philosophy from the man Frank Retes.
If you get a CHEAP ANIMAL, youre going to spend a lot more on vet bills than you would a CB animal without them.
No one realizes how tought a healthy herp is. But most herps aren't even close to healthy, which is the problem. Ya'll just LOVE overcomplicating!
K.I.S.S. : Keep it Simple Stupid. Just a little philosophy from the man Frank Retes.
thats what im talkin about,why wait to find out if its serious.my lepords got it from bad infected feeders and they were cb.mine died.kept them perfectly.they died,get it yet.
Then don't feed them bad feeders. Raise your own. But thats a disease. We are talking matters of husbandry. No one can keep them perfect, and as hardy as leos are, people still manage to screw it up. I dont know if I can take your word for it that they are 'perfect'. If they died from that, something else must have been previously wrong to have weakened them and left them suspectible. I think a big healthy monitor for example would laugh at a rotten mouse.
I don't want her to wait until its serious, thats my whole point. If something is wrong with a herp, its VERY wrong. If she fixes her husbandry, the main problem, and something is STILL wrong after a few weeks, then she has something serious on her hands. But it is most likely something not serious. THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME! Just this person cared enough to find out and fix it! (hopefully)
I don't want her to wait until its serious, thats my whole point. If something is wrong with a herp, its VERY wrong. If she fixes her husbandry, the main problem, and something is STILL wrong after a few weeks, then she has something serious on her hands. But it is most likely something not serious. THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME! Just this person cared enough to find out and fix it! (hopefully)
"don't feed them bad feeders"?? It happens. It can even happen when you raise your own. You can make some good guesses, but you can't know for sure where infections like that originate, or where the feeders may have picked up something bad. I'm sure most CB reptiles do have some parasites, because that's just the way life is. I mean, almost 100% of humans are full of all kinds of tiny little parasites living in our guts, and we're all captive-bred, aren't we? If something happens that sets of a population explosion of a reptiles intestinal fauna, it could be the keeper's fault, or it could be the animal's genetics, or it could just be that some pathogen floated through the air, infected that animal for a little while, and lowered its immune system.
Sometimes things like that happen and there was no way to foresee it and prevent it.
Loco, I don't think the problem is our overcomplicating things. I think you like to oversimplify when herpetoculture really isn't as simple as you try to make it out to be. It's not always this way or always that way, etc. That whole k.i.s.s. philosophy is a good starting point, but it doesn't mean that every little thing that pops up in this hobby is cut and dried.
Sometimes things like that happen and there was no way to foresee it and prevent it.
Loco, I don't think the problem is our overcomplicating things. I think you like to oversimplify when herpetoculture really isn't as simple as you try to make it out to be. It's not always this way or always that way, etc. That whole k.i.s.s. philosophy is a good starting point, but it doesn't mean that every little thing that pops up in this hobby is cut and dried.
The only problem with the KISS statement is that the more specialized the herp, the harder it is to simpify.
It is true for most snakes and some lizards, but not for turtles, tortoises and some diurnal lizards.
It is true for most snakes and some lizards, but not for turtles, tortoises and some diurnal lizards.
I'm not trying to break it down as simple as possible. Yes, the physical conditions reptiles need ARE complicated, but its not complicated to provide it. Expensive sometimes, though.
Set up any herp the right way, it should be able to beat down nearly any problem that comes its way.
"or it could just be that some pathogen floated through the air, infected that animal for a little while, and lowered its immune system." There ya go!
Set up any herp the right way, it should be able to beat down nearly any problem that comes its way.
"or it could just be that some pathogen floated through the air, infected that animal for a little while, and lowered its immune system." There ya go!
jason longboard;1179329; said:so if i had an alien in my belly i should drink some water and it will kill it?someone shoud have told Ripply.
LMFAO!!!
