Someone help asap

So I was feeding my three snakes today and after feeding one of them and I looked in a tub, I noticed a blood stain on a newspaper and it shocked me. Can someone tell me why there is a blood stain? She is a proven breeder female ball python 2000g.

First off, do you feet live, prekilled, or frozen/thawed? How big was the meal? How big was the bloodstain? Has she recently shed?

It could be any number of these things.

Has she recently shed? Sometimes you'll see a little blood from the vent when they shed.

Could be from the pret item, just look over the snake for any wounds, if you find any apply regular neosporin.

i feed f/t so can't be the food, has not shed so it can't be that. Blood stain was not that big. Like a short line. It's like the tail of the girl moved left to right to make the line blood stain.

It absolutely CAN be from the prey. I feed f/t as well....and sometimes find blood on the paper after they've eaten. It can leak from the nose, the mouth, or other bodily orifices after the prey has thawed. Some are "bleeding" even before they're given to the snakes.

When was the last time she shed? I notice short lines of blood when my snakes shed sometimes.

can't be the food because I changed the bedding three days ago and when I tried feeding today she didn't eat it or seem interested in it. I think it might be going into shed but that doesnt explain the blood.

To piggy back on what JLC said - it definitely can be from the pray. When I fed my boy f/t a few days ago, there was blood left on my chopstick from the mouse - and could see where some of it was coming from on it. :P

Edit: Whoops, didn't see your most recent post. :(. In that case, like others have said - I would check for injuries.

I am with Judy on this one I'd suspect rodent blood. Check the snake over but my guess is prey item.

I didn't catch your post either sometimes there is a spot or two of blood after a shed as well. When was the last shed?

well it can't be shed because it hasnt shed in the past three weeks and like I said I changed the bedding two days ago.

its hard to explain but if anyone has seen the breeding video of ralph davis #2 or 3 you see the female releasing her glands. Well like a little part of the blood stain on that paper is what it looks like. I do have a male above the female shelf, but I dont know if that matters.

I have never had a sexually adult female release glands just by proximity. I actually don't have enough information about that to be of use. There was no deification recently? That too can cause some bleeding.

Got a pic?

You wouldn't happen to have a picture, would you?

F/t mice/rats can bleed JUST as much as a live mouse/rat. It's not like they have their blood drained when they are f/t.

My large normal female goes crazy with her f/t large rats and there is a blood stain almost every time.

A picture would definitely help though.

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Originally Posted by Carlene16

F/t mice/rats can bleed JUST as much as a live mouse/rat. It's not like they have their blood drained when they are f/t.

My large normal female goes crazy with her f/t large rats and there is a blood stain almost every time.

A picture would definitely help though.

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I dont want to keep repeating myself. It can't be a rat because she didnt eat today, she ignored the rat and I changed the bedding 2-3 days ago.

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Originally Posted by Maddumpling

I dont want to keep repeating myself. It can't be a rat because she didnt eat today, she ignored the rat and I changed the bedding 2-3 days ago.

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Ahh from your first post it sounded like you said you fed your three snakes today, sorry. :rolleyes: I don't know what it could be then! I still would recommend taking a picture of said blood.

EDIT: Okay, saw the new post. Check the snake for wounds, I guess, apply topical antibiotics. It might be random vent spotting. How much blood are we talking about?

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here is the pic

Honestly, that doesn't look like blood to me. Marker or something???

Sorry I can't help you out.

looks like marker to me too...if it were blood, it would be more brownish or red if it were fresh .....

could be, i never really look at the newspaper i put down lol but seeing that surprised me. but i still dont know what it is.

That looks like marker to me as well. I'd say just give her a quick once-over to check for any injuries, and if she's all good, then it's probably just from a marker.

It looks like an ink smudge on the paper. Change it and maybe use plain paper for the moment and keep an eye out or anything else.

Well, not to be a PITA, but t could be the feeder, the snake doesn't have to touch the rat for it to bleed... Specifically if it is FT... Have you never seen the bloody frozen mice/rat bags at petsmart? Have you never had a rat spill a few blood out of the nose/mouth while thawing?

Just my 2 cents...


HOWEVER, that looks like ink to me as well






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That doesn't look like blood, it looks like pink marker to me. And blood is not pink.