Hydra

[EasternGirl]

Okay Nate...be that way! Googling it....Ewwwwwwwwwwwww! You have that as a pet? Please tell me it is just a specimen in a jar from vet school? You can't keep one as a pet can you? How would you keep that as a pet? Am I being very blonde right now? Is this a joke?

[aquamentus_11]

i plead the 5th

[EasternGirl]

I must tell you Nate that you are very weird with this thing...is it living in your liver or something?

[aquamentus_11]

The 5th

[mikem]

name it flukey.

[EasternGirl]

Nate has a big fluke living on his face like in some syfy horror flick.

[aquamentus_11]

i am the fluke

[EasternGirl]

Wow...now we have flukes joining the forum...next we will have snakes joining the forum pretending to be people to try to feed us information...like, "You really should have an endless supply of pinkies available to each snake and offer them whenever the snake wants to eat". Lol...

[aquamentus_11]

yes, you should do that and all our snakes will go out with a bang. literally.

if it gets to the point where i become worried about hydra starving, do you guys think it would be appropriate to put she and Scylla in a separate feeding container together? is that still too risky? i think Scylla's monstrous appetite and feeding response could trigger something in Hydra's stubborn snake-brain. she's so nice and calm, such a sweetheart of a snake, just stubborn. maybe i'll try feeding with chopsticks. could be the hemostats and forceps are throwing her off.

[EasternGirl]

That would be breaking the quarantine...the idea of quarantine is that the snakes have no contact at all so that if the new snake has any contagious diseases, she cannot give them to the other snake. If for some reason Scylla has something that Hydra could contract...any contact at all...just for a couple of minutes...could pass the disease. That's why I said wash your hands between handling the two snakes. Now there are containers that you can buy that are made with two compartments...or with a piece of plexiglass that you can slide in, to convert the container into two compartments for feeding two snakes...but I don't know if this is considered safe to use during a quarantine period. If it is...I could give you a link to show you the containers. Does anyone know if it would be okay for him to put the snakes in one of these divided tanks during a quarantine period?