Is this mouth rot? Or something else?

I opened my big girl's cage to find this today. I already have an appointment set up for tomorrow first thing at 8a. How bad is this and how worried should i be. In 4 or 5 years of having ball pythons ive never had this happen. Also should quarantine be implemented?


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It looks like a cyst or an abscess. I would quarantine until the vet appointment.

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That poor girl :tears: That looks horribly uncomfortable at the least. Good on you for making an appt. so quickly :gj: I for one am interested in updates on her. Never seen anything like that; Would be curious what it was and on how she gets better. :(

It looks like a vet appointment. Ouch i'd guess abscess or some sort of infection it looks unpleasant at best good luck at the vets!

Ill keep everyone updated. Ya its leaking pus and developed very quickly. last night it was half this size and the day before barely noticeable. i have her quarantined and i had my bumblebee male with her last week so he is quarantined as well but he shows no symptoms. ill post tommorow when i know more.

Ouchie! Poor girl. Glad you're getting her to the vet. Let us know how she is! :(

Please share an update when you have one! I have seen something similar but the snake in that situation wasn't leaking pus or anything - just random swelling. The folks that had that snake took it to the vet and theirs gave them general antibiotics, which eventually made the swelling go down. Never did find out what caused it in their case.

Curious what happens here. Good luck!!!

-Jen

Poor girl. I had a male burm who's face swelled up. He shed one day and his jaw, throat and everything were just huge. So i took him out of his cage and put him in the bath tub until i could get a QT tub done. came back in and the swelling went down almost all the way.Took him to the vet and she said there were no infections or anything. She said that she has seen it before, just random swelling and as soon as the snake gets in a warm bath or starts moving it goes away. So weird. Hope to hear good new from the vet

Will wtf! I haven't seen you in ages bro it's carlson from high school. I noticed these pics face book then took a better look at your picture. How have you been are you still on the range or in duluth?

Lol what up nick ya im back on the range. got back from iraq 2 years ago and got a place and ya got back into snakes lol. The vet pushed our visit back to 1130 today so the rest of the members here will have an update hopefully around 1 or so.