feeding problem

What vet would make you go to him every two days for a species of snake that stresses out easily? When you say parasite, are they internal, or things like mites? For internal parasites, I've heard of a vet giving them one shot/medication a week, but not every two days. And if it's mites, there should really be no reason to go after the first visit if he gave you something to treat the cage with like PAM. What is he giving to your snake for treatment btw?

If it's shots every few days I'm surprised the vet hasn't shown you how to do it yourself so you can minimize moving this snake. Yes we are all aware of the need to handle for meds while under vet care and acknowledged that should be the only handling time. That was only one small point in these many answers to you, trying to help you set up your snake properly, feed it properly and understand why it's likely rejecting eating at this point.

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about 2 weeks, i have handles every two days, but this is only becasue ion the last week he has been going to the vet for treatment of parisites.

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A BP that is not healthy or handled to often will go off feed

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vet said to keep at - 60-70 humid
temp is about 75F

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Temps is borderline and since you have a reading with analogue thermometer it is likely even lower then that which u-healthy and could lead to RI
Humidity should be 50%-60%
Your temps should be 90-94 F on the warm side or 32.5-34.5 Celcius and 80-84 or 27-29 Cecius on the cool side

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2 crappy as hell anolouge ones...not a single digital one in this blasted country.

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You need to research the subject and find a digital device, if not in a local store check online and try to find a store that will ship to you

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1 is a half log in cool side, and the other is a unplugged heat cave for the warm side

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Your hides need to be tight so your BP feels secure, and identical so your BP does not chose
security over thermo-regulation (Note: Log hides do not provide enough security).

Fix you husbandry, once done wait a week with no handling and try to offer food again.

ok i have made the temps right, and improved the hides, no they are not completly identical, but the log one now is a half log cave, very tight and sucure, also the cave is about the same size and also tight and sucure.

ok the treatement is for internal parisites. and also a bunch of vitimins and stuff *not sure lots of large words, brian cant cope*. treatment is now finished and it was 4 times once every 2 days.

wasnot injections *shudders, have a thing about needles* but a tube that goes down the mouth then, the meds along the a little food are fed to the snake. qual the food was.

vet also says the snake was underweight. he is also a trianed vet with a specility in reptiles and birds.

howcome every care sheet or anyone i talk to says diff things about the temps and humid, and wieght it should be and size they grow to.. is there nothing solid or 2 the point?


*any injections that would have to be done *non yet, exept blood test to check for parisites* i would not be able to do due to the fact i cant stand needles, makes me get shivers down my spine :O

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Originally Posted by liam

howcome every care sheet or anyone i talk to says diff things about the temps and humid, and wieght it should be and size they grow to.. is there nothing solid or 2 the point?

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Because they're all written by different "experts" (I use that term loosely) who have differing opinions of how things should be done.

In general though, 80-85 for the cool side and 90-95 with 50-65% humidity, maintained 24/7, is going to be within the ranges of everyone's care sheets. If it's not, they're wrong and should be ignored in most cases. Those are the conditions that have been found to be beneficial to the animals by a vast majority of breeders and owners, who probably know these animals much more intimately than the stupid "experts" who think they know it all...

kk aggred, my temp's are now running better *gave up using the therm* im now just using the thermostat to check the temp. not the best way but it will have to do untill i can grab a decent thermostat.