Ri#2

Another of my snakes is suddenly slobbering and snotting.
We called the vet supply and paid for overnight shipping of the Baytril.

So far, none of the other snakes exposed to the Plague Snake are showing what could be symptoms except the 2 girls who are off their feed.


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That sucks! Sorry about your babies. I hope they get better soon.

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Originally Posted by DellaF

That sucks! Sorry about your babies. I hope they get better soon.

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Thanks.
I'm just hoping they do get better.

I've dealt with sick everything else but never snakes.

This seems so terrible and huge.

Man that really sucks. I hope they get better and no other snakes get infected. My thoughts will be with you

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

Man that really sucks. I hope they get better and no other snakes get infected. My thoughts will be with you

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I have to go the farm store and get my own syringes.

Does anybody know what size I should buy?

I'm about to go get dressed to leave and will check back here before I go.

I know "small" but how small?

One snake is 900g and the other is about 1400g.

Help with this would definitely be very appreciated.

And thanks Aaron, you're a good friend....:)

I really wish I knew what size to get so I could help. Unfortunately there are only 2 ways to really learn about how to treat RI, become a reptile vet or have an outbreak in your personal collection. I personally haven't done either. I guess the silver lining of this is that in the future (god forbid) if another one of your snakes get a RI you will know what to do.

My sister is in school to become a vet, I'll give her a call and see if she knows anything about this.

Ok, My sister said that she isn't familiar with BP injections but she did explain to me the basics.

Obviously you need a syringe that is big enough to hold the full dose of Baytril.

She then said that most needles used are in the 20-22 G (gauge) but the length differs. (needles will be labeled like this: a number, a G, then another number. The first number is the gauge of the needle and the second number is the length)

I know that I didn't fully answer your question but I hope that this helps

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

Ok, My sister said that she isn't familiar with BP injections but she did explain to me the basics.

Obviously you need a syringe that is big enough to hold the full dose of Baytril.

She then said that most needles used are in the 20-22 G (gauge) but the length differs. (needles will be labeled like this: a number, a G, then another number. The first number is the gauge of the needle and the second number is the length)

I know that I didn't fully answer your question but I hope that this helps

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It's a start!

An exotics hospital in Fairfax VA said "TB needles".

Turns out ALL the other herp vets I had found within sane distance no longer exist.

They have all gone to VA and elsewhere.


I am SO screwed.

:(

Baytril is an older medication many bacteria are now resistant to it. I understand the problem but I would get on the phone and speak to a vet whom is willing to work WITH you they will have the experience need to properly deal with the problem. I would really recommend a culture be done before dosing with drugs as drugs often purger the culture. Any decent vet will be able to send the sample out to a lab.

The next questions is what is up that is causing the ri in the first place. Typically it is attached to temps (ambient air often) and poor ventilation. So the next question is what are the ambient air temps in your rack and how many holes do you have in the tubs?

there was a poster a while back whom had no holes and over a period of time all the snakes got RI he had, although he insisted they had enough ventilation the whole time...

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Originally Posted by Salamander

It's a start!

An exotics hospital in Fairfax VA said "TB needles".

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The last RI issue I had, I was given 1mL Tuberculin syringes with 25 gauge (5/8" length) needles. The size of the syringe you need will depend on the dosage of Baytril. I had a different antibiotic, so I can't specifically help there, but I'd be surprised if a dose was larger than 1mL (my girl was over 700g and her dose war 0.3mL). I definitely don't see any reason to use larger than a 25g needle, though (smaller number = bigger diameter needle).

I do second the need to get a culture done, though. Your options are obviously very limited, and Baytril could fix it, but I'd get a culture swab and then dose with Baytril until you get the results that tell you whether to switch treatment, if at all possible.