How many friends did your snake have?
Well, one of my snakes pooped and peed. Well I went to go clean out her cage and I noticed some worm like things in her stool and water and all over her newspaper. I bagged them both up and took them ot the vet the next day. Well they did a fecal and my poor snake has 4 different types of internal parasites. She had Whip Worms, Ring Worms, Tape Worms and Round Worms. Since all of my snakes came in contact in one point in time I will be treating them all. It will cost me a total of around 100 dollars to treat 7 snakes but that price also in cludes a $42 dollar office charge, and 2 fecals at $16 a piece and the meds wich will be around $15-$20. I am not pleased but the price is not that bad. I switched vets and they are wonderful and alot cheaper then the other one. When your snake had internal parasites did they have 4 different kinds or more? Thank you for letting me rant on about all of this I just had to relieve my stress somewhere and I am open to opinions. Also when by biggest snake stopped eating is when I brung home two other ones and one of thsoe was the one with internal parasites. I hope she will start eating again once she gets treated so that she can breed this season. Thanxs again.
-Andre
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Originally Posted by Regal Boids
Well, one of my snakes pooped and peed. Well I went to go clean out her cage and I noticed some worm like things in her stool and water and all over her newspaper. I bagged them both up and took them ot the vet the next day. Well they did a fecal and my poor snake has 4 different types of internal parasites. She had Whip Worms, Ring Worms, Tape Worms and Round Worms. Since all of my snakes came in contact in one point in time I will be treating them all. It will cost me a total of around 100 dollars to treat 7 snakes but that price also in cludes a $42 dollar office charge, and 2 fecals at $16 a piece and the meds wich will be around $15-$20. I am not pleased but the price is not that bad. I switched vets and they are wonderful and alot cheaper then the other one. When your snake had internal parasites did they have 4 different kinds or more? Thank you for letting me rant on about all of this I just had to relieve my stress somewhere and I am open to opinions. Also when by biggest snake stopped eating is when I brung home two other ones and one of thsoe was the one with internal parasites. I hope she will start eating again once she gets treated so that she can breed this season. Thanxs again.
-Andre
ouch man! g'luck with the medication and getting them on the right track to recovery! Hope your biggin starts eating again!
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yea that sucks I hate to hear that bu good job on the catch of it though
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Kashmire had three types of parasites when he was tested. It only cost me $2.50 per dose of Panacur (2 doses).
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What type of origin does the sick snake have?
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I'm not sure how internal parasites travel from one snake to another unless they were in the same enclosure or otherwise somehow exposed to each other's waste. Regardless though....it's a good lesson on putting all new animals through strict quarantine procedures.
Good luck with it, Andre.
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That was a good catch on your part. Me and Adam just had a long talk about inspecting snake poo to make sure every thing is kosher. More people need to do that on a regular basis
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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog
That was a good catch on your part. Me and Adam just had a long talk about inspecting snake poo to make sure every thing is kosher. More people need to do that on a regular basis
HAHA! Seeing you type "Snake poo" and looking at your Steve Irwin photo instantly made me think of him saying "By crickey! We got a glorious pile of snake poo!" Too bad I can't type in aussie accent that well. :(
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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog
That was a good catch on your part. Me and Adam just had a long talk about inspecting snake poo to make sure every thing is kosher. More people need to do that on a regular basis
That sounds like it would make a good FYI note .... Maybe we could coax Adam into writing something up that we could sticky????
Neil
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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog
Me and Adam just had a long talk about inspecting snake poo
:omg: :bolt:
