OMG.....my worst fear has come to pass

[Otolith]

RI's are the worst. I lost a baby blood to one. Be super fastidious, borderline OCD with cleanliness. Iif your vet prescribes oral meds run. I should have but know better now, unfortunately at cost of my snake :/

[piper]

RI's are the worst. I lost a baby blood to one. Be super fastidious, borderline OCD with cleanliness. Iif your vet prescribes oral meds run. I should have but know better now, unfortunately at cost of my snake :/

That's not entirely true, baytril can be given orally, or injected. Issue with oral medication is they can potentially go back in the enclosure and spit half of it up by trying to get the mucus out, or while trying to give it to them, they can flinch and half of it can go down your arm but I know someone who just treated one of his snakes with baytril orally and it worked fine.

I'm dealing with an R.I myself right now.. I have only had the snake for a few weeks and he came to me with it. He was accidentally taken off the plane he was on and left overnight in Montreal where it's very cold as it is here.

I took mine to the vet and was told to bump the humidity and raise the temps to get the immune system going. I went in there after doing my research.. I asked her for baytril and she said fortaz was stronger. The 2 medications I believe you want to hear are baytril or fortaz. I have to give mine an injection of fortaz every 72 hours and was given 10 syringes to do so. It is way too stressful to keep taking them back and forth to the vet every 3 days to get an injection.

You'll panic at first as I did, but once you go to the vet and realize if treated properly, isn't life threatening, it can calm your nerves quite a bit. Some people have successfully treated it by raising temps and humidity but I still believe they need to go to the vet.

Besides going to the vet, there is actually nothing you can do except for exactly what you're doing now!

Good luck!

[Salamander Rising]

RI's are the worst. I lost a baby blood to one. Be super fastidious, borderline OCD with cleanliness. Iif your vet prescribes oral meds run. I should have but know better now, unfortunately at cost of my snake :/

I'm very sorry about your snake.


OCD is easy for me because I actually am OCD.

[that sucks as a "lifestyle" but it does make you a vigilant animal keeper...sometimes too much so]