Help something's wrong with our snake!

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Can anyone help us? I've never seen this. And I don't know what to do?!?! Any advice or suggestions is appreciated. Thank you!


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Is that a male BP? Looks like a prolapsed hemipene? I cannot say for certain. It just reminds me of pictures I have seen of it. Did your snake poop recently?


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It's a female. And she just pooped recently.


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I would advise a vet visit.

But in the mean time:
1) put her on paper towel substrate.
2) keep her vent moist/prevent from drying out
3) I can't tell exactly from the photos if it's a prolapse. But if it's a minor one, you can make a paste out of sugar+water to dab onto her vent to reduce the swelling.

Some of the area is swollen, the red looks like a bite mark.


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Yikes. Looks worse in these photos and not a prolapse like was mentioned before.

Do you feed live or sharp cage furniture?

Clean it with some antiseptic like Betadine. I'd still advise a vet.


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What was the time frame from the first set of pics you posted to these new ones?

Minutes. The new ones is with pulling the tail back and trying to show the anus. Satomi we do feed live. And she just ate this past Saturday. I just did the cleaning today to check on them. I almost missed this. She doesn't have any hides and her substrate is aspen.


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Originally Posted by Daybreaker

What was the time frame from the first set of pics you posted to these new ones?

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Sorry about an hour.


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^ fed live and no furniture. She is kept in a cb70 tub with a smooth water bowl and just aspen. She's a big 2700 gram girl. The 2nd set of photos and more direct lighting. We put her In another cb70 with moist paper towel. Sprayed f10 on the tub first and some on the wound. Some Betadine as well?

We had some Betadine from before and put some of that too. We will update tomorrow

Yikes. No idea. Has she been bred? I would go for a vet visit. Hope all turns out well.

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Yikes. No idea. Has she been bred? I would go for a vet visit. Hope all turns out well.

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Her previous owner has bred her and she has laid numerous times. We got her and started to feed her last year may/June. And we paired her with bumblebee/butters in nov/dec of 2012. But nothing came of it. She didn't take this past year. And I'm not sure what to make of this. It doesn't look good. And I thought maybe a rat got her. But she grabbed them so fast and strong I couldn't imagine them getting her that bad :(


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I had a similar issue when a female showed a swollen and crusty vent. It doesn't look quite the same in the photos you posted, but to be on the safe side have your vet check her for intestinal parasites. GI parasites can cause bleeding and vent swelling.

I'd recommend a vet visit too - a course of anti-biotics might prevent any more trouble setting in.

Fingers crossed for her. :please:

I am going to take her to see the vet hopefully tomorrow morning. Luckily we have a few hero vets in the area

It looks like a rat bite that has swollen up..sounds like you've gotten it all lined up with a vet visit and all. Good luck, I've seen them rebound from way way WAY worse than that.

Looks like a bite to me. Like the rat got the scale on the bottom lip of the vent

Update. Sorry for they long wait.

The injury got worse before it got better. Ended up taking a vet trip and having him remove dead tissue and inject an anti inflammatory. After that each day I would lightly wash the vent with warm water and light soap.

I'm happy to say it looks
95% Better and she has taken a meal since. Pics soon