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    Re: My injured snake..

    Quote Originally Posted by Hankj View Post
    I mean I can't monitor her at all times so I don't know how much she's really drank and or soaked. Should I be encouraging it and trying to put her in the water?
    I would say, yes.
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    Re: My injured snake..

    Okay before bed I'll change the water and put her near it.

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    Re: My injured snake..

    If she's thirsty and can drink, putting her head in the water will trigger a drinking response.
    Hopefully she's able to drink. Don't leave her unattended in the water.
    If she does start drinking don't let her drink very much since she has a head injury. I'd say 30 seconds should be enough if she starts.
    Thirsty snake many times drink too much and throw it up.
    Best of luck.
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    Re: My injured snake..

    So I went in there and picked up and tried to put her in the water and she was resisting a lot haha. She started to squirm and get away from me. Then I changed the water and I picked her back up and she was much calmer and let me put her head in the water. It didn't look like she was drinking though, just holding her breath. Maybe she was afraid of the guppy haha.

    And this morning I picked her up before school and was very squirmy again, I think it was because I woke her up and picked her up right away.

    I'm about to try the salmon.

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    Re: My injured snake..

    I'm pretty confident she's not afraid of the guppy.
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    Re: My injured snake..

    Yeah, really. A predator afraid of it's prey. Now that would be a snake with a serious problem.

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    Re: My injured snake..

    Well, Squirt was afraid of a larger wiggly worm... Any time it moved he hid and wouldn't eat it. It wasn't that much larger than the ones I normally feed him.
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    Re: My injured snake..

    I didn't think she actually was afraid of it lol!

    She isn't touching the salmon either.

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    Re: My injured snake..

    [QUOTE=Hankj;150677] Maybe she was afraid of the guppy haha.
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    That's my fault.
    I didn't see the "haha" after your sentence
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    Re: My injured snake..

    We just had a bit of a tussle..

    I was putting up a shelf above her tank and realized dry wall was falling in on her, I put a blanket over the tank and finished the job. Then, not thinking, I just picked the blanket up and rained the drywall down on her. So I decided to open up the tank and remove everything and I was gonna shake out the ecocarpet. Then I picked her up and she didn't like that. She was by the water bowl so she was wet, so lots of water. She's squirming around trying her hardest to get away from. She really didn't want to be held! She's never been like that before, it seemed kind of violent lol.

    Then she pooped on me! I think it was poop. It was yellow and kind of fluffy/watery. Poop and not musk right? Or is this even normal at all? I then held her with one hand while I grabbed a little plastic tank to put her down in. But while I was grabbing the plastic tank she was pretty calm..

    While she was in the plastic tank and I was cleaning up the mess I threw a worm in there to see if she would eat again and no luck.

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