Rat-Lax?!? What is it? Is it safe for your snakes?

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Originally Posted by Deborah

Usually the bloating issues that can be seen in snake is usually either all gas, or there is a blockage generally cause by dry urate, poor hydration can cause this, however in both cases a enema is not needed, the vet took advantage of the fact that you have limited experience.

A 150 grams snakes fed 2 to 3 fuzzies every 5 days is not gonna poop any time soon since the animal will utilize most of the prey item for growth.

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So should I go back to the diet I was feeding him? I had already posted a thread asking if the vets advice was credible and the answer was he was trying to get my BP's digestive tract back to proper working conditions.

Btw love how you guys are so concerned, it's really helpful thank you

As long as you are feeding from equal to the widest point of your snake to a bit larger for a bump you are doing fine.

I will say that in my opinion a dosing of mineral oil will put a strain on the gall bladder, liver, and digestive tract. I hope that this is not a habit with your friend, for it could have life shortening effects in the long run.

Step 1: Make sure your temperatures and humidity are where they should be. Make sure your substrate is unlikely to cause an impaction (ball pythons seldom get impactions, but you don't want to create one).
Step 2: Feed your ball python an appropriate sized prey item every 5-7 days.
Step 3: Keep your husbandry up; clean enclosure, water, temps and humidity.

Ball pythons are fairly hardy, in the right environment in captivity they are very unlikely to have issues. Some species are difficult to keep even in the right environment, following the logic of "it is possible to do everything right and still have things go wrong, that is life." With ball pythons, aside from genetic disorders and prior husbandry ghosts, it tends to be very rare that doing everything right will have something go wrong.

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Originally Posted by Reinz

As long as you are feeding from equal to the widest point of your snake to a bit larger for a bump you are doing fine.

I will say that in my opinion a dosing of mineral oil will put a strain on the gall bladder, liver, and digestive tract. I hope that this is not a habit with your friend, for it could have life shortening effects in the long run.

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Deffinetly not a friend haha, just some random dude I was talking with while picking up some food for my BP. From what I'm gathering from everyone here, he is probably hurting his snake pretty bad; unfortunatly I don;t think I'll see him again otherwise I'd probably tell him that he is killing his snake with that.

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Originally Posted by Oxylepy

Step 1: Make sure your temperatures and humidity are where they should be. Make sure your substrate is unlikely to cause an impaction (ball pythons seldom get impactions, but you don't want to create one).
Step 2: Feed your ball python an appropriate sized prey item every 5-7 days.
Step 3: Keep your husbandry up; clean enclosure, water, temps and humidity.

Ball pythons are fairly hardy, in the right environment in captivity they are very unlikely to have issues. Some species are difficult to keep even in the right environment, following the logic of "it is possible to do everything right and still have things go wrong, that is life." With ball pythons, aside from genetic disorders and prior husbandry ghosts, it tends to be very rare that doing everything right will have something go wrong.

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Everything is how it should be, I check more times than I'd like to admit. The only thing I'm doing questionably is feeding him the smaller prey (fuzzies) but thats orders from my vet. I'm torn between just going back to what I was feeding him (1 med mouse every 5) and just following what the vet had told me because there was undoutable a problem passing feces since there was blood and no feces. On the other hand he could have been impacted from the pet store since the substrait they were using was more like dirt than the substrait I'm using for him now.

Fuzzy mice??
I hope not.

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Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl

Fuzzy mice??
I hope not.

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fuzzy mice yes, thats the vets orders for yah

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Originally Posted by Ragtag

fuzzy mice yes, thats the vets orders for yah

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Vet is an IDIOT........
Out of the egg hopper mice are only good for the first couple meals.

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Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl

Vet is an IDIOT........
Out of the egg hopper mice are only good for the first couple meals.

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So what food are you suggesting for a 150g BP?

Either rat pup or small mouse.