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A serious problem...
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| 11/18/07 06:35pm |
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Message To: Skittles73 In reference to Message Id: 1518834 A serious problem...
1. She had hookworms. Parasites are always something to check a new snake for. Could be worms, could be protozoa, but there’s a good chance that’s the issue, and the longer you wait the harder it’s going to be to get the snake back to health. Call around. You can probably find a vet who will do a stool check without you even having to stress the snake by bringing him in. The hookworm diagnosis cost me sixteen dollars for a vet test and thirty dollars for a good digital kitchen scale so I could tell the vet how much the snake weighed in order for her to figure out the prescription. 2. Her warm spot was too warm to sleep on, so she kept sleeping in cool spots and getting sick, always in the early morning when the room was chilliest. Putting a dimmer switch on the undertank heater sounds like the LAST thing you’d want to do if a snake is getting sick from low temperatures, but sometimes you’ve got to take the counterintuitive route. Put the UTH at like half power, and the snake will be able to stay on it more. It sucks waiting a week when the snake starts obviously begging, but do so. The stomach is in rough shape right now. There’s another new thread on this same sub-forum, something about "Mistakes" where I give advice on Pedialyte baths. I suggest you go that route to help replace his fluids and electrolytes. Rememeber when I said my snake dropped down to 51 grams? After her first Pedilayte bath, she was back up to 54, and stayed 54 all week, except for one temporary drop (before the dailly soak, afterwards she was 54 again) down to 53. I’m not sure precisely which thing finally straightened her out, but the de-worming was done in May and she was still getting sick into mid June. The dimmer switch, the electrolytes, and the finally waiting on her next feeding were all done the same week, so I can’t specifically credit one thing as being the big life saver, but since then she has almost without fail eaten three fuzzies every five days, without getting sick once, so those are the actions I suggest. |
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| 11/18/07 11:58pm |
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Message To: JackAsp In reference to Message Id: 1519347
im bringing him to the vet today at 5:30. hes really doing badly, the skin on his neck is pinched together so im thinking he dehydrated even though he always has fresh water. i also moved his heat lamp to one side so he has a little heat on both sides. i got him to drink a little today after i heated some water up a little till it was luke warm. im going to bring a stool sample in as well just to get that checked. im definitly going to get a look into getting a digital scale for him and i think i should get the hook worm test like you suggested just in case. bringing him to the vet is going to cost 55 dollers plus whatever tests need to get done but its deffinitly worth it, i am sooooo worried about him, hes so small and i know he can’t afford to lose anymore wieght :{!! |
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| 11/19/07 03:41pm |
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Message To: Skittles73 In reference to Message Id: 1519877 A serious problem...
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| 11/19/07 04:32pm |
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Message To: JackAsp In reference to Message Id: 1519947
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| 11/21/07 04:54pm |
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Message To: Skittles73 In reference to Message Id: 1522234 A serious problem...
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| 11/22/07 01:15am |
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Message To: JackAsp In reference to Message Id: 1522700
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| 11/22/07 12:55pm |
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A serious problem...