Eric Adrignola
Avid Member
Deremensis are so very parsonii-like in their form and function, that little tidbit is interesting. My deremensis, WC and CB, were prone to mouth infections and abscesses.
Never the veileds,just the deremensis. They would get an infection at the site of a cricket spine or roach spine cut on their oral membranes.
The problem with the deremensis was fixed - and prevented in all future specimens - by a significant increase in multivitamin supplementation. I was giving herptivite very infrequently, and relying on gutloads. I was told that it might have somethign to do wiht Vitamin C(like scurvy), so I upped the multivitamins and gutloaded with fresh citrus a bit more frequently.
It wouldn't make much sense for such a large animal to be naturally prone to infections in the mouth like that. They eat cicadas in the wild, which have big crunchy exoskeletons. Ayone try increasing vitamins?
Never the veileds,just the deremensis. They would get an infection at the site of a cricket spine or roach spine cut on their oral membranes.
The problem with the deremensis was fixed - and prevented in all future specimens - by a significant increase in multivitamin supplementation. I was giving herptivite very infrequently, and relying on gutloads. I was told that it might have somethign to do wiht Vitamin C(like scurvy), so I upped the multivitamins and gutloaded with fresh citrus a bit more frequently.
It wouldn't make much sense for such a large animal to be naturally prone to infections in the mouth like that. They eat cicadas in the wild, which have big crunchy exoskeletons. Ayone try increasing vitamins?
