Quick... Help w/refridgeathesia

[MizM]

9" t. blondi, injured during shipping, losing hemolymph at tarsus joint, need to bandage....

how long in refrigerator to calm this big girl down????

 

[ines68]

Hi MizM I found info in this page http://atshq.org/articles/found.html about refrigerate Ts (for shipping) I think maybe the 15 minutes that they tell will be good

Sorry about your T

Ines

 

[deifiler]

Don't go by a set time.. Check the spider at one minute intervals, use a brush to see the attitude.

Don't forget that there '15 minutes' are under totally different conditions, not to mention the species etc etc will effect it

 

[MizM]

I put her in at 9:05 a.m., took her until 10:30 to calm down enough to treat her, and even THEN she was wiggling a bit!! My h. lividium only took 30 minutes to go totally sleepy!! So, in the future, for a 9" T, it looks like 1 1/2 to 1 hour 45 minutes is the starting point for relaxation.

I put a tiny little strip of toilet tissue around the wound, letting they hemolymph "seal" it as a bandage. I'm reluctant to use SuperGlue or NuSkin on a joint injury... so we will see how the tissue experiment goes.

I will obviously have to restrict movement for a few days, so rather large i.c.u. in the making!

Thanks guys... this is the LARGEST T I've ever OWNED, let alone treated! A little bit nervous on this one!

 

[MizM]

Now 12:37 pm. The bleeding stopped immediately upon toilet paper bandaging. It worked! It was dropping one drop about every 15 minutes... pretty fast for a T! Now, without the SuperGlue or NuSkin, I will not have to worry next molt. Toilet tissue being what it is, will come right off with the molt. Whew! Hope someone can use this next time they have a bleeding joint!

 

[ines68]

You look like a T doctor, glad to hear that is ok

 

[MizM]

I'm going to get a white lab jacket and a teensy, weensy stethoscope!!!

 

[Palespider]

Geez, sounds like a big girl! Need to post some pics quick

Congrats on your surgery. Sounds like it went well

Jim B.

 

[MizM]

Oh boy, I'm on the phone now with my son's step-mom.

YOU GUYS!!!! My birthday is in August and I REALLY need a digital camera. And I know you love me. And I'll take pictures EVERY DAY. And I'll come over and take pictures of all your Ts. And I'll photograph your kids, AND your grandmother. And I'll come over for EVERY birthday and take photos and............

 

[Malhavoc's]

Congrats on he treatment of our blondi glad to hear a less stressfull approach to a bleeding t.. I dont think I liek the idea of [glueing up a t] Sorta seems stressfull I mean like a cast..