Deworming

Yeah.. I've even heard of some people doing fecal exams at home.. I think if you just swirl the poo in some water, and skim some water off the top, then put it under a sufficiently strong microscope, you can see if there are any nasty critters in there. I suppose you'd need a book though, so you know what you're looking at. lol charming

I love colubrids.. the morphs are like little jewels. Albino nelson's milk snakes are breathtaking IMO.

If your concerned about worms take a fecal sample to the vet.
Snakes sometimes show pin worm eggs etc in the fecal but can be from the prey it's fed and doesn't mean your snake has worms.
That was the case w/ my bp. nevertheless we wormed him. The vet used panacur it was liquid and I gave it to my bp in a syringe and just forced open his mouth and put it back in his throat. The dose was 0.06 on the syringe
You should not dose your bp yourself, that's what vets are for. Better to be safe than sorry

i've never heard of worming a snake but if it was caught wild then i would take it to the vet for a all around check if you plan on keeping it and spending money on it make sure it will last in captivity

Yeah, I'd take it to the vet. My vet gave me dewormer for my snake. I gave it to him in a syringe (not the needle kind) through the mouth.

There's really no way you could perform a fecal at home. There's a special solution that you mix with the poo and it makes the eggs float. Normal water won't do that. Also, at school I use a $2000 microscope, and just for checking a fecal, I don't think anyone would want to spend that kind of dough. Just take a fresh fecal sample to the vet and let him know what you'd like done. Normally a tech will do it, so if the vet doesn't, it's ok. It should cost $10-$15, maybe $20 but that's pushing it. If the snake isn't wild-caught or captive-hatched, then there should be no reason it would have parasites, unless it was constantly exposed to them where you purchased it. And no, you should have the vet weigh the snake and find the correct dosage. You cannot just do this at home. You can, however, give the wormer yourself if the snake has something like coccidia that takes 3+ weeks to get rid of. But those are extenuating circumstances. So my $0.02 would be to take some poo to the vet and just get a fecal done and maybe take the snake for a good once-over. I would just do the fecal though, to save you alot of money and the snake alot of stress.