um, does my snake have diarrhea?...

Okay, as said in my post yesterday, my BP hasn't eaten since October 30th. I handled him yesterday for about 5min, to gather his weight, and length. I just looked into his cage, to what looks like loose stool... I have some pics. I'm not sure if this is anything to worry about, but between him not eating, and my corn snake regurgitating his food last night, its one more thing for me to worry about. :(

Temps - 90*F warm side, 75/80*F cool side, 45% humidity.

pretty gross pics, fyi.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/_x_Ebil_x_/1.png

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/_x_Ebil_x_/3.png

He's been in this position since I put him back in his cage last night, I never see him out at daytime, and rarely at night.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/_x_Ebil_x_/2.png

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Originally Posted by Malaika

Okay, as said in my post yesterday, my BP hasn't eaten since October 30th. I handled him yesterday for about 5min, to gather his weight, and length. I just looked into his cage, to what looks like loose stool... I have some pics. I'm not sure if this is anything to worry about, but between him not eating, and my corn snake regurgitating his food last night, its one more thing for me to worry about. :(

Temps - 90*F warm side, 75/80*F cool side, 45% humidity.

pretty gross pics, fyi.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/_x_Ebil_x_/1.png

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/_x_Ebil_x_/3.png

He's been in this position since I put him back in his cage last night, I never see him out at daytime, and rarely at night.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/_x_Ebil_x_/2.png

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Well it kinda looks like a normal poo.He is probably waiting for you to clean up his mess before he can go to bed :P

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Originally Posted by joepythons

Well it kinda looks like a normal poo.He is probably waiting for you to clean up his mess before he can go to bed :P

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Oh okay, phew.
I've never seen one like this before from him. He's always had big hard logs. :rofl: Guess I'm a little too over-cautious sometimes.
Thanks a lot.

Hard to say from a picture, looked a bit loose to me. With the bp not eating and the cornsnake regurging I'd suggest two things. That you take a very good look at your husbandry for both snakes and that you take fecal samples from both of them into the vet just to rule out any issues. Fecal floats are not terribly expensive, some vet clinics can do them while you wait and you don't need to bring the snake in. Just scoop up a sample, pop it in a ziploc bag, mark it as to which snake it came from and the date you gathered it, keep it in the fridge, not freezer and take it to the vet as soon as you can.

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Hard to say from a picture, looked a bit loose to me. With the bp not eating and the cornsnake regurging I'd suggest two things. That you take a very good look at your husbandry for both snakes and that you take fecal samples from both of them into the vet just to rule out any issues. Fecal floats are not terribly expensive, some vet clinics can do them while you wait and you don't need to bring the snake in. Just scoop up a sample, pop it in a ziploc bag, mark it as to which snake it came from and the date you gathered it, keep it in the fridge, not freezer and take it to the vet as soon as you can.

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Well, the corn regurged because the heat wasn't warm enough, I ordered a new UTH and new thermometer for him, should be coming in, in a few days.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong for the ball though, he's been perfectly fine, until now, nothing has changed at all, in almost a year.

There is only one vet in our area that does reptiles, last time I went to her, I brought our Chameleon and she didn't do anything for him, except say he was sick (duh.), charged us well over 250$ and he died 2 days later...

Okay, I changed his tank about 4 hours ago, I have another problem.
He had water before I changed his cage, as a note.

I cleaned his entire cage out, and it (well, was) clean and dry. When, I put him back into the cage, I noticed he dashed for the water and began to drink [nothing unusual for him] but he remained in the water (I mean, up until about 15minutes ago when he spilled it :mad: ) So, I took him out of the tank, and a whole bunch of liquid/mucus poured out of his mouth, and he's holding his head up in the air...yes, RI symptoms, but I wouldn't know if there is any popping sounds, I have VERY poor hearing.

So, is the liquid/mucus just because he drank too much water??? I didn't notice any liquid coming out when I moved him to his temp. holding tank while I cleaned his tank.

I won't be able to get him to some vet anytime soon, parents are on vacation, I'm ordered by doc to stay home, sister's sick, there is no way this week I can get him to the vet... :sigh2:

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Originally Posted by Malaika

Okay, I changed his tank about 4 hours ago, I have another problem.
He had water before I changed his cage, as a note.

I cleaned his entire cage out, and it (well, was) clean and dry. When, I put him back into the cage, I noticed he dashed for the water and began to drink [nothing unusual for him] but he remained in the water (I mean, up until about 15minutes ago when he spilled it :mad: ) So, I took him out of the tank, and a whole bunch of liquid/mucus poured out of his mouth, and he's holding his head up in the air...yes, RI symptoms, but I wouldn't know if there is any popping sounds, I have VERY poor hearing.

So, is the liquid/mucus just because he drank too much water??? I didn't notice any liquid coming out when I moved him to his temp. holding tank while I cleaned his tank.

I won't be able to get him to some vet anytime soon, parents are on vacation, I'm ordered by doc to stay home, sister's sick, there is no way this week I can get him to the vet... :sigh2:

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Check the temps.I bet something wrong with the heat on his enclosure also ;)