Heart Questions

Lol byop(bring your own prob)

Haha - yea they are slightly too small, which is why I was hoping she'd take more than one. My bf went to pick up frozen while I was at work. I told him to get adult or fuzzies, med-large, and he got hoppers by mistake. It's okay, I'll get the right ones next time.

They said they could see it by holding her upside down, we'd need scans to confirm.

Yea I did more research it's super rare for snakes to have heart disease, and she was at petsmart for 6 months before I bought her. She at 5 fuzzy mice in 6 months. She's already eaten twice for me in 5 days. I'm holding out a lot of hope for her :)

Lol so they held her upside down and somehow determined she has heart problems? That doesn't sound like a good way of determining anything.
I wouldn't worry about it. Your snake is eating and doing well, I'm sure she will be just fine.

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Originally Posted by stickyalvinroll

Lol petco sells pieds now?

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My girl is from petsmart. She was 300.

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Is that a good price for pieds? I haven't been in the market recently

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Originally Posted by stickyalvinroll

Is that a good price for pieds? I haven't been in the market recently

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For a female that's a good price. For a male it's still decent. I got my male pied for 200 or 250 at a show in Florida. I would probably jump on a 300 dollar pied female if I found one, but at petsmart I don't really trust them to sex correctly.

Jeez... thats how cheap pieds go for now? I seem to remember about a year ago it was more like 400-500 even males. I guess even the recessives aren't safe from price drops.

They're dearer over here sadly - UK

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Originally Posted by bks2100

For a female that's a good price. For a male it's still decent. I got my male pied for 200 or 250 at a show in Florida. I would probably jump on a 300 dollar pied female if I found one, but at petsmart I don't really trust them to sex correctly.

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They sold her to me as a male, but when I handled her in the store, I attempted to pop her, and no hemipenes... so I was like yup I'll take her lol

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So I think she does have an enlarged heart, but I'm hoping time can correct it, certainly I've seen this happen before. However - I think I might start a blog to document her and our care of her. There is relatively no information out there. When you hold her you can typically feel her heart beating, and when you get her in the right position you can very clearly see different valves working. But she eats, she moves around like a normal ball python, and she seems happy. I haven't found a single video of a visible heart beat on a snake.

Thanks for all the comments here, I do have alot of hope for her and I think she will be fine :) I'll share the blog when I've got it up and running.