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My night shifts are totally random Doing it on a random basis always sucks 😂 If you have a certain requirement each month, do it all at once right in the middle of the shift assignment and know that it will suck coming in and out of it as a normal human being Humans don’t tolerate this kind of...

I finally got around to looking at Mader’s book regarding temperature in infected reptiles. They note in the text to keep reptiles in the high end of their preferred temperature range during treatment of infections . It also recommends a digital, dimming, or proportional thermostat on the heat...

I’ll have to look at Mader’s textbook to see what it says about this (I know he’s not writing the whole thing, but it’s an interesting question 😁)

Yes. I protect people’s lives while masked people attack their bodies with knives 😷

I am not either. If you need a liver transplant, I am pretty good at keeping you alive while a surgeon does their thing But I’m not an immunologist or infectious disease expert, or a vet. I’m just interested in finding the best evidence and best ways to treat Chams when they’re sick ☺ Started...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8396262/ Here’s another, maybe I beat her to this one

Not surprisingly, @kinyonga has already posted this study She’s too damn good at this stuff 😆

Interesting they said to avoid increasing temperatures

I do it for myself because I feel like crap 😂 But unless its dangerously high, yes it’s probably helping to fight the organism that’s causing the fever and it’s better to leave it alone

I’m wondering if anyone has used or uses the strategy of increasing basking and ambient temperature when they are treating infections in their reptiles. It is well established that many biological processes require a certain temperature to increase their effectiveness. Immunological processes in...

You’ve been dealing with a lot recently I’m so sorry Thank you for being here. You have made part of the world better because of your passion and effort

I don’t entirely disagree I’m not a fan of any heating source without a digital dimming controller managing basking temperatures Using one, burns are fairly unlikely I wish the T5 lamps did better with dimming/ramping up intensity better Along with plant lighting ramp up/down for a more...

Just showed up on my feed Interesting, I wonder how programmable it might be https://www.reptiliavita.com/

“Greater variability in habitat constitutes greater potential for precise regulation of preferred temperatures. More opportunity for thermoregulation contributes to the increased fitness of organisms in a complex habitat“ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.1141

Here’s a link to Biology of the Reptilia started and overseen by a scientist named Carl Gans. It covers four decades, 22 volumes, and 13,800 pages of science on reptiles https://carlgans.org/biology-reptilia-online/ It might take a while to get through 😂

I’m heading down the renal disease rabbit hole. We’ll see what I find

Thank you

Just me doing some research, but reptiles metabolize ammonia to uric acid through the Inosine pathway (not the urea cycle like mammals) It’s interesting that inosine affects this virus in a positive fashion. I suspect it’s due to renal dysfunction. Bad kidneys = better environment for Ranavirus...

Here’s a couple of articles that discuss these issues https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4810049/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5575572/

I ordered this today. I’m excited to read a review of the research on welfare of captive reptiles. The link below gives a review of its contents https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10936276/