drj5600
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Hey guys - just wanted to hop on here and get some helpful advice. Our female Jackson's passed recently and I am now left with a fully branched, plant-filled XL Reptibreeze enclosure. I have a juvenile female veiled that I was actually needing to upgrade to a larger habitat and I would love to move her into Karma's old enclosure however, where do I even start with sanitizing and cleaning it well enough to place a new animal in the enclosure? I have lots of live plants, branching, vines etc and it was reconfigured and thoroughly cleaned ~2 months ago.
A little background on our girl that passed: it was nothing of the contagious or preventable in nature. We found her Sunday morning hanging upside down in her enclosure (very unusual for her) with a bloody mouth, lethargic with a weak grip, distended belly. My immediate thoughts were she's either got a gnarly glandular infection or she's severely impacted. We immediately took her to the vet school - luckily we live about 20 minutes from one of the best in the country - and their excellent exotic team did a complete work-up including a full blood panel, physical exam, and x-rays. She was unfortunately in kidney failure and we ultimately decided it was in her best interest to put her to rest. While poor/uneducated husbandry is the leading cause of kidney failure in our captive reptile friends, it appears she was genetically doomed from the beginning. We had a necropsy completed and her kidneys were all out of whack even from the earliest stages of her development - probably a result from the inbreeding of the jackson's species.
With all of that being said, what do you guys suggest? Pulling everything out and starting with fresh branching? Is there a way I can sanitize this enclosure without having to rebranch? Thank you in advance!
A little background on our girl that passed: it was nothing of the contagious or preventable in nature. We found her Sunday morning hanging upside down in her enclosure (very unusual for her) with a bloody mouth, lethargic with a weak grip, distended belly. My immediate thoughts were she's either got a gnarly glandular infection or she's severely impacted. We immediately took her to the vet school - luckily we live about 20 minutes from one of the best in the country - and their excellent exotic team did a complete work-up including a full blood panel, physical exam, and x-rays. She was unfortunately in kidney failure and we ultimately decided it was in her best interest to put her to rest. While poor/uneducated husbandry is the leading cause of kidney failure in our captive reptile friends, it appears she was genetically doomed from the beginning. We had a necropsy completed and her kidneys were all out of whack even from the earliest stages of her development - probably a result from the inbreeding of the jackson's species.
With all of that being said, what do you guys suggest? Pulling everything out and starting with fresh branching? Is there a way I can sanitize this enclosure without having to rebranch? Thank you in advance!
