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Something Interesting For Boa Owners.
So I took Ruu, my BCI from Jimi to the vet because of a possible RI.
Turns out it was just stuck shed. Good news.
Bad news, I had also noticed that he has been bloated for a little while, and gets the same every 4 weeks or so.
The vet felt around and found a large obstruction of sorts, twice as big as the vent. They started talking about x-rays, surgery, and all sorts of things.
Obviously I went with the first thing, an enema to see if it would come out.
It did, and guess what it was?
A Urate Stone. Similar to kidney stones. We were very lucky it came out, so obviously I asked how to prevent it from happening again and what caused it. Heres the informative part, so listen up if you have a boa.
I've seen a couple threads on here about tap water vs distilled water for the snakes. Apparently, urate stones can be caused by minerals often found in tap water. What's worse, is that our city water isn't well water anymore, but recently was made into reverse osmosis, and has few hard minerals in it anymore. So it apparently does not take much, but she told me boas can specifically be sensitive to this, where pythons may not be.
I'm switching my KSB and my BCI to distilled only water or water that has had the minerals broken down with a liquid my friend uses (not sure what it is, but I'm going to look it up and ask her about it).
Thought I should let you guys know, so that everyone can take that information into consideration as well.
Also.. on a different note..
Steven, my bp rescue, is getting a fecal done soon, and is a boy, with no other problems. :]
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