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    Ophiuchus rhea drache's Avatar
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    strange occurrence - pissy concinnus

    Yesterday I suddenly saw blood all over one of my larger enclosures, a 4'x2' tank containing four females of similar size. Next thing I see is my Florida blue sirtalis, practically covered with bright red blood zooming all over the tank. So I get her out, rinse her off, and find that she has a tiny puncture on top of her neck - nothing big. So I bag her and go looking for the other snakes. The other sirtalis and the marci turn out fine, but the concinnus is swollen around the neck, and has blood dripping from her mouth. It turned out not to be as bad as it looked, and she's fine this morning. She's also in shed. I wonder whether this was a PMS thing.
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    Re: strange occurrence - pissy concinnus

    Wow, glad they are OK.
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    Re: strange occurrence - pissy concinnus

    Oh, what a row
    hope your pulse is normal again

    Glad to hear it has no serious effect.
    Allready waiting for the sommer
    best wishes bis bald Udo
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    Re: strange occurrence - pissy concinnus

    Maybe, vampire concinnus
    Steve
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    Re: strange occurrence - pissy concinnus

    Thamnophis sirtalis draculosis???? .... glad to hear it worked out OK.
    Keeping - 'Florida blue' sirtalis, concinnus, infernalis, parietalis, radix, marcianus and ocellatus.

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    Re: strange occurrence - pissy concinnus

    maybe it hates boundries and is trying to gain speed to bust through the glass eh?
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    Re: strange occurrence - pissy concinnus

    My baby concinnus? NO! What the heck happened? Sounds like somebody has been fighting. You gotta watch those concinnus. They have a nasty habit of smelling food on another snake after they have eaten, and then attempting to take a bite out of the snake that just ate. Be careful!

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