Wierd question

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Originally Posted by Apiratenamedjohn

I hope everything goes ok, good luck.

I second not believeing a single snake from that source is ok. I would get in touch with them once the vet figured out what is going on as well.

Also, I am dissapointed.... I was looking forward to something relatively weird. :/

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I have the other 5 snakes marked in quarantine separated from my other quarantined snakes. I hope they are ok, it's my pied and my clown hets that are being effected

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Originally Posted by tttaylorrr

i just want to chime in here: while OP's snakes are obviously dealing with some sort of issue, sometimes when a snake sheds, the skin pulling away from the cloaca causes it to get irritated and possibly bleed a bit. it's not too common, but it does happen; it's happened with my oldest male once before. that's likely where the blood came from.

still, diarrhea is not something to take lightly IMO.

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I hope they are ok, the pied was meant to be for my little girl for her forever snake ( that's what we call our snakes that aren't gonna be strictly for breeding)

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Originally Posted by tttaylorrr

... sometimes when a snake sheds, the skin pulling away from the cloaca causes it to get irritated and possibly bleed a bit. it's not too common, but it does happen; it's happened with my oldest male once before. that's likely where the blood came from....

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Sorry, but I'm not buying that for snakes with diarrhea...and I've had an awful lot of snakes for decades, but I can't recall one ever bleeding from a shed.

Let me be clear: I'm not discounting your observation in your snake...who knows what that was about? but I am very concerned for the OP's snakes & I
wouldn't want to minimize the issues his are having.

Sounds like a parasite. Other than overheating stress, the only other times I've personally seen diarrhea in any reptile has been parasite related (although I have seen dietary indiscretion give tortoises / terrapins loose and watery stool - but usually after being fed way too much fruit, so not what your snakes got going on).

Make sure you keep a sample of the stool- not on a paper towel - it can't dry out to be viable. If your vet is not a reptile specialist (small animal vets that "see" reptiles may not always think to send fecals out) - ask if they can send out the fecal to a lab for culture. Something like crypto, giardia, or coccidia can't always be seen on regular fecal centerfugation / fecal floats. If the snakes are large enough, blood-work would also be helpful - make sure liver/kidneys are functioning, no anemia, no sign of high white cell count from infection etc