diary july

02.07.02
Finally 013 is going to shed again. (cloudy eyes)
05.07.02
After having some difficulty with the shedding I sprayed some water to increase humidity and shortly after that I could take the skin out of the terrarium
06.07.02
Delicious food was served today. (smelt and mice) I put calcium on the little ones' smelt and mice pieces. 014 didn't eat today again.
10.07.02
I have been feeding the little ones only once a week lately and now decided to  do that more often. They ate a lot today!
12.07.02
008 has shedded today. Besides that I got three great new animals today from other members of the EGSA. Von anderen EGSA-Mitgliedern habe ich drei wirklich tolle Tiere bekommen:
1.0 sirtalis sirtalis florida-blue, captive bread '99
1.0 sirtalis similis wild caught '98
1.0 sirtalis tetrataenia captive bread '99
I will take their pictures and put them on my website later as soon as possible.
I'm not sure of how to do that with the names now because I'm still searching for females for all of them. I will probably give each on of them a name but leave out one number between all of them, so I can give those names to their females.
The FB would then be Agent019, the similis Agent021 and the tetrataenia Agent023.
13.07.02
I fed the snakes today and added vitamines and calcium to the adult snakes' food. Only 014 and 016 didn't eat. The vitanimes and calicium couldn't keep my three new snakes from having their meal. They seemed to enjoy the smelt.
16.07.02
I know now, why 016 didn't want to eat yesterday: It shedded today.
20.07.02
The tetrataenia has got cloudy eyes.
22.07.02
I wanted to find out today what the three new snakes thought of mice for dinner. The FB liked that and he took a jumper. Before that he had had a big smelt.  The similis took two big smelt and three babymice.
The tetrataenia refused food today because of the upcoming shedding of his skin. All the other snakes fed normally and the bigger ones got their first baby-rats.
Only 014 was not hungry again today. I'm slowly beginning to worry! I examined her excrements but couldn't see anything unusual. She always used to have a huge appetite. I couldn't see a constipation and when I belive the vet she can't be pregnant either. When looking at her you can't see any deficiency symptoms from not eating. Her body is still pretty strong and she winds round my hand with a certain strenght. I guess I can't do anything but keeping an eye on her.
29.07.02
Today the tetrataenia showed me how much he likes mice.Two of the disappeared in his mouth, together with three smelt. From now on he will mainly get mice. 014 refused her food once more today.