Soooo RI, I screwed up.

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Originally Posted by stevenkeogh

Crank your heat up to high 90's even 100 on the hot side and bump up the humidity. DO NOT lower the humidity, that just masks the symptoms and will kill your snake.
Essentially you should be attempting to "cook" the RI out of your snake. Much like mammals gain a fever to fight infection.
Lowering humidity putting the snake in improper conditions... which is what caused your problem.
-Steven

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100! thats way too hot
95 tops is all i would ever go and up the humidity it will loosen the mucus.
what caused to original problem was more than just one mistake.
baytril isnt hard to find almost every vet has it and most vets should be able to figure out RI even if they are not herp vets.


as for the mites you better get some proventamite asap and i would use it on all your caging. i have never had mites yet i always have PAM on hand and use it monthly just in case.

The vet just needs to do a mucous swab to determine which antibiotic is appropriate to use :)

And yes, 100F is too high, I agree :gj:

Well I got Panacure, Baytril and 10 1cc syringes for 260$....price to pay for not being near a Herp vet. But I would pay Double if thats what it took.
Turns out they have Pneumonia, one of them has practically no signs of it anymore. Ive got all my newer snakes in my living room, and my Originals in My bedroom. I did however screw up by putting my lesser with these Newer girls....wich was not a good idea. And I really couldnt quarantine any beter because Ive bought a new snake every other week for 3 months....lol so ALL of my newer ones are in living room. However My lesser I should have left him away from the newer Balls. Anyways .......... Time to treat em with Baytril. Time will tell........thanks for the advice on the Humidiy......I have the temps up mid 90's , I'll bump the humidity up a tad....:snake:

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Originally Posted by XGetSome

Well I got Panacure, Baytril and 10 1cc syringes for 260$....price to pay for not being near a Herp vet. But I would pay Double if thats what it took.
Turns out they have Pneumonia, one of them has practically no signs of it anymore. Ive got all my newer snakes in my living room, and my Originals in My bedroom. I did however screw up by putting my lesser with these Newer girls....wich was not a good idea. And I really couldnt quarantine any beter because Ive bought a new snake every other week for 3 months....lol so ALL of my newer ones are in living room. However My lesser I should have left him away from the newer Balls. Anyways .......... Time to treat em with Baytril. Time will tell........thanks for the advice on the Humidiy......I have the temps up mid 90's , I'll bump the humidity up a tad....:snake:

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while we understand that its hard to QT everything away from everything (new and old). i QT in another room and ive had a rack at a time full of animals in QT the point to remember is if you had one animal in QT for lets say 2 months and you bring another home into QT. i personally keep both of them in there for the hole time i QT for even though one has been in there 2 months already. some ppl just put tubs here and there all throughout the house some ppl cant.

I forgot to update this thread....

I built a rack with 18 32 quart tubs strictly for quarantine and 6 6 qt tubs.
I have it controlled with a Thermostat and 17" flexwatt, all is good. And that rack is full, building another.