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25-Apr-07, 10:56 PM
|  | Josh! Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Bulli, N.S.W Age/Gender: 24  | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenWillow  Thanks for your lovely comments guys  She is such a nice natured snake. The log thing is just new. Dad and Brother 3 found it up at our farm and brought it back for her. She seems to really appreciate it!
Yes, she is 18 months old, Magpie | I hope you poured bioling water all over the log, mite sprayed it and then left it in the sun for awhile. Wouldn't want butter milk catching anything would we!!
P.S. B-E-A-UTIFUL snake. Olives are one of my favourite aussie pythons and the albino olives are now definately one of my favs!!
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26-Apr-07, 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by womanator I hope you poured bioling water all over the log, mite sprayed it and then left it in the sun for awhile. | No. I did brush a bit of dirt off it though. And by the looks of it, it has had plenty of time in the sun already |
26-Apr-07, 11:03 AM
| ![Ashleigh:]'s Avatar](http://www.aussiepythons.com/forum/customavatars/avatar2727_1.gif) | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Caboolture, Brisbane Age/Gender: 17  | | | |
AMAZING lilly, to die for!
i think my normal olive is absolutely stunning, yet seeing pics of yours, adoarble!
have you only got the one??
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26-Apr-07, 11:05 AM
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Greenwillow ! There are reasons we wash our logs thoroughly!!
Reasons such as: Reason 1 - You can never waste enough water on pointless tasks
Reason 2 - To trick them, snakes prefer plastic logs
Reason 3 - Log Mites are deadly to snakes Reason 4 - To remove natural smells. If a snake smells something natural from The Great Outdoors it goes into a deep depression pining for the wilds
Reason 5 - Logs carry OPMV Reason 6 - Purification. Snakes are delicate, fragile creatures. Preliminary research is even indicating that they should only be given filtered and purified air to breath Reason 7 - We don't have enough things to do and must clean lumps of wood so we do not risk becoming bored and THINKING about things!
Reason 8 - Snakes just can't get enough exposure to chemicals in their daily life, so while you are chemically treating the log, why not even consider bumping the dose up a bit. Tsk Tsk ! 
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26-Apr-07, 11:10 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: NSW | | |
I have Lichen. He is a year older than Buttermilk, and a het, although looking at him you would never guess He likes booting my dog off her chair and claiming it for himself, reading modern philosphy and the smell of sandalwood root.
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26-Apr-07, 11:12 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-06 Location: Austin, TX | | | |
Whoa Lily- I didn't know you got yourself an albino olive!!! Unreal gorgeous!
As for the wild logs/wood, I put them in the oven @ 350 degrees for 30 minutes.... not sure much of anything could survive it...
//Todd
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26-Apr-07, 11:13 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: brisbane Age/Gender: 28 | | | |
Oh lily
Your soooooo Lucky
Buttermilk is just gorgeous, i'm so jealous now.
PAV |
26-Apr-07, 11:13 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: NSW | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Wrasse Greenwillow ! There are reasons we wash our logs thoroughly!!
Reasons such as: Reason 1 - You can never waste enough water on pointless tasks
Reason 2 - To trick them, snakes prefer plastic logs
Reason 3 - Log Mites are deadly to snakes Reason 4 - To remove natural smells. If a snake smells something natural from The Great Outdoors it goes into a deep depression pining for the wilds
Reason 5 - Logs carry OPMV Reason 6 - Purification. Snakes are delicate, fragile creatures. Preliminary research is even indicating that they should only be given filtered and purified air to breath Reason 7 - We don't have enough things to do and must clean lumps of wood so we do not risk becoming bored and THINKING about things!
Reason 8 - Snakes just can't get enough exposure to chemicals in their daily life, so while you are chemically treating the log, why not even consider bumping the dose up a bit. Tsk Tsk !
|  Just wait 'til The Dad finds out about this. Is Buttermilk going to die??
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26-Apr-07, 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by GreenWillow Just wait 'til The Dad finds out about this. Is Buttermilk going to die?? | It will be ok, just do all of the above in future and make sure you never ever take her outside to play in the grass, hang around your potplants, climb in a tree or on the clothesline or otherwise occupy any areas that any other reptiles/animals may have crossed at any time in the past.
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26-Apr-07, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Br8knitOFF As for the wild logs/wood...
//Todd | Yes, it is the wild ones you have to be concerned about I think...
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26-Apr-07, 11:24 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: NSW | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Wrasse It will be ok, just do all of the above in future and make sure you never ever take her outside to play in the grass, hang around your potplants, climb in a tree or on the clothesline or otherwise occupy any areas that any other reptiles/animals may have crossed at any time in the past. | Should I replace the grass with astroturf and all the trees and plants with plastic replicas?? |
26-Apr-07, 11:27 AM
| | Josh! Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Bulli, N.S.W Age/Gender: 24 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Wrasse Greenwillow ! There are reasons we wash our logs thoroughly!!
Reasons such as: Reason 1 - You can never waste enough water on pointless tasks
Reason 2 - To trick them, snakes prefer plastic logs
Reason 3 - Log Mites are deadly to snakes Reason 4 - To remove natural smells. If a snake smells something natural from The Great Outdoors it goes into a deep depression pining for the wilds
Reason 5 - Logs carry OPMV Reason 6 - Purification. Snakes are delicate, fragile creatures. Preliminary research is even indicating that they should only be given filtered and purified air to breath Reason 7 - We don't have enough things to do and must clean lumps of wood so we do not risk becoming bored and THINKING about things!
Reason 8 - Snakes just can't get enough exposure to chemicals in their daily life, so while you are chemically treating the log, why not even consider bumping the dose up a bit. Tsk Tsk !
| Very funn, haha. How do you know that an OPMV infected snake didn't piss, breathe, sneaze or slither all over it. Last time i checked they still weren't 100% on the transmission of the disease or how it was spread so please don't be smart **** or condesending with me. However, you seen educated enough to tell me that the log COULDN'T possibly be harbouring the disease. How do you know the it didn't have mites in it that had recently feasted on an OPMV infected snake??
Also mite spray is NON-TOXIC to the snakes AND people so i don't see how using natural bioling water and a non-toxic, widely used spray could be so harmful. If it was me i would be taking slightly more caution due to the fact it was a 15K snake and not just your average, run of the mill specimen.
Also i don't think 1 kettle of water should be considered excessive. How much tea or coffee do you drink a week??
Next time you want to make fun of me do it through PM.
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26-Apr-07, 11:37 AM
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Apologies womanator. I wasn't directing any of this specifically at you and to be honest, I hardly read your post at all.
My comments were directed, very tongue in cheek, at the general panic that surrounds our reptiles. Yes, we should be careful, certainly. However, I get such a kick out of those people that overreact (such as in my first post outlining reasons) and yet those same people will happily remove a snake from it's enclosure to wander across the floor of the house, or will be showing photographs of said same snake hanging from a tree, or on the lawn outside.
The hypocritical paranoia is ludicrous.
However, this is Buttermilks thread, so thank you for reminding me that I am taking this thread very off topic.
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26-Apr-07, 11:41 AM
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very nice lily, you must love her to death.
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26-Apr-07, 11:43 AM
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Poor thing looks like it could do with some sun Lily  I'll look after it for a little while of you're finding it hard to sun her That's the kind of guy I am!
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