Worried about Ma-tsu

Glad to hear Ma-tsu's surgery was a success. Hopefully she recover's great and that you find out exactly what those little buggers are. Also I hope Neptune doesn't have them either. Good luck with both of them!

Ma-tsu is recovering nicely, btw. :) Still waiting to hear back on the bugs... I haven't noticed any bumps on Neptune but I'm gonna have the vet help me check him over after we know what it is Ma-tsu's got.

I took a real quick snapshot of her stitches while I was checking for swelling or anything else I should be panicking about. Kinda fuzzy, but she was very "Noooo, I doooon't waaaaannaaaa... :disbelief" squirmy and sulky and just wanted to be left alone. Looks good, healing nice, and one quick pic then she went back to her nap. Poor sweetie.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...sustitches.jpg

Awww. Poor girl. It's always sad to see stitches. But I am glad the buggers are out. I hope she is back to her normal self as soon as can be. Good catch on that one, btw. :gj: You care for your snakes well!

Good to hear Ma-tsu is recovering.

I'm not sure I'd ever seen such a close-up pic of a VBB before. Those very pointy scales are nifty looking! So different from a BPs. I also don't remember noticing it when I held a Taiwan Beauty at a pet store or a Trinket at a show. Is it unique to the VBBs or am I just not observant? Or maybe it was because both of the ones I held were youngsters.

Thanks again for sharing these beauties with all of us.

Thank you, still waiting to hear back on the bugs! I asked today while making an appointment for one of my rabbits because it's always something. :crazy:

Yes, I'm pretty sure Taiwans have similarly shaped scales, but I don't tend to notice how pointy they are when I'm handling my snakes either. Photos are cool like that, make us notice things we didn't before. I notice the texture more during handling. Every reptile show I go to I'm amazing at how soft the Retics are! And yes, I cuddle a baby retic at virtually every show. :love:

Here's a couple of older nice close-ups of Ma-tsu scales while she's in the blue. A friend got permission to use of the first one as a dragon scale icon for an RPG she's doing. ;) snake scale close-ups fascinate me, I wish I had the patience to do them justice art wise.

http://www.bluegorgon.com/matsuwallpaper3.bmp
http://www.bluegorgon.com/matsuwallpaper2.bmp

Gorgeous pictures! The shape of the scales is great!

Those close up pics are awesome! The contrast of textures between the pointy scales and the mist droplets is just wow.

'In the blue' indeed! Great pics there.

Thank you. :)

Well, it's official: It's tape worms. Now we're basically waiting on a decision amongst the vets on how to treat it. There's a shot that should take care of it, but they're not 100% that it's ok to use with reptiles and wonder if it's better to try and find and cut all of them out. :weirdface I'm hoping the anti-tapeworm shot turns out to be a safe way to go... anybody else have experience with this?

Hope all goes well. Glad to hear she's on her way to recovery.
Let us know how it goes with the tape worm treatment