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Waiting for the Sun

All systems nominal, now the snake just needs to be well enough to move in.

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It's almost done! Hope Sunny will feel well enough soon to leave his ICU tub for the new cage.

He'll have a shelf and a hammock for climbing now, and of course his hide will be on the hot spot on bottom right.

Today we'll wire up the fans and the heater, as well as the thermostat and the hygrostat to control them and the humidifier, and then we can close up the back.

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More alert, but still a bit cross-eyed.

Good news: histopathology didn't find cancer.

What they found was "inflamed tissues, [...] severe, heterophilic inflammation with abundant bacteria." That isn't very good news.

If it's not resolved in one month with antibiotics we're giving him, we'll do a bacterial DNA sequencing to see what the heck is in there.

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Leliana is due to ovulate any day now! That means around 45 days after that until eggs :D

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Groggy baby

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Still groggy as heck, 48 hours after surgery, but perking up slowly.

Tried to show him the water to encourage him to drink, but he just sat like that for a couple minutes and then pulled his head out of the water bowl and laid back down. :(

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Sunny's in his transport/hospital tub, after having emergency surgery for what we thought was a prolapsed hemipene, but turned out to be a tumor.

Still waiting on histopathology to know whether the mass was benign or malignant.

He's recovering from sedation, slowly. It's been about 24 hours since he's been operated on, and he's definitely more alert now, but still very sluggish. Makes it easier for me to give him his shots.

We've used the time he has to be in the hospital tub, to disassemble and remove his old cage, to give us a bit more room to finish his new one. I caulked it two days ago, and we've put in some insulation and two exterior walls already.

Hope he'll like it when he's well enough to leave his ICU tub.

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Elephant Trunk Snake aka Javan File Snake (Acrochordus javanicus), family Acrochordidae, Malaysia

photograph by Bryce Trevett

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Hi sunny is a beautiful burm and can u tell him I love him very much for me ty 🤍💛🤍💛🤍

He loves you right back!

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your snakes are so beautiful and clearly well cared for! i always love seeing them pop up on my dash!

Thank you! Here are some Sunny bleps for you :)

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First try-on of the new cage for Sunny!

He looks so much smaller in it!

(Almost done. He may be moving into the new enclosure in less than a week!)

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From the Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife page on Facebook, based in Australia…

The three-eyed snake warns The Dry is coming!

Our Rangers found a three-eyed snake on the Arnhem Highway near Humpty Doo just out of Darwin. It was a juvenile, approximately 40cm long.

The snake is peculiar as an x-ray revealed it was not two separate heads forged together, rather it appeared to be one skull with an additional eye socket and three functioning eyes.

It was generally agreed that the eye likely developed very early during the embryonic stage of development. It is extremely unlikely that this is from environmental factors and is almost certainly a natural occurrence as malformed reptiles are relatively common.

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Thank you! Sunny and I really appreciate you seeing how far he's come since we first adopted him!

Remember the crinkled scales? This is from 2017:

Just the other day I realized that they're all smoothed out! I thought this was permanent damage, but yay!

:D

Let. 👏 Him. 👏

OUT!

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Goofy beast whom I love

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😭😭😭

:( Take it back :(

My snon worked very hard to achieve his slender physique!

Let. 👏 Him. 👏

OUT!

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Tail hat

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Let. 👏 Him. 👏

OUT!