Would anyone be happy to show me how to probe pythons in Newcastle? I have 3 young spotteds that I would like probed. I have approached a local herp vet who was reluctant to advise me and I am not prepared to pay their $150 fee. I am however prepared to repay the person in rodents or beers.
Probing snakes in Newcastle.
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mungus
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Which vet was chargeing you $150 ?
sugarloaf animal hospital @ west wallsend 3 snakes 50 bux each for a consult and probe.
I was told that it can be dangerous to probe snakes at an early age. I was advised that 9 months of age, 50cm long and 2cm thick was too young and small to probe safely. That advice to me seems a little conservative. Can anyone confirm or deny? Thanks.
Stewydead
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hey man, have you ever researched "popping", heres a clip of Ralph Davis who lives by the popping method.
[video=youtube;BPmIpc_gP9I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPmIpc_gP9I[/video]
[video=youtube;BPmIpc_gP9I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPmIpc_gP9I[/video]
Stewydead
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thanks man, good luck back at you with IDing the spotteds
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wokka
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The later you leave probing the more accurate it will be. Obviously younger animals are very fragile and its easy for the probe to be caught on a tissue fold so it doesn't measure the complete depth. I suspect a lot of the supposed problems with early sexing of GTPs relate to popping although no-one is going to admit to that. There is generally no rael need to sex young snakes. The most popular reason is so the new owner can chose a name which is not a good enough reason in my book to put the animal at risk. I just offer to sex the snake later when it has grown up.
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