My friends ball python maybe hurt?

Hi my friend is moving so I am holding onto her ball pythons and on female Medusa has a problem of some sort and we arnt sure what it is she thinks someone may have caught her head in the rack when closing it but she isn't sure but the ball python is very un active and and let me move her head and open her move with ease and when I picked her up and held the tail end she couldn't grip or pull her self up so I moved her into my hatchling rack with a better heating system and she seems a bit better is actually moving and when I tryed to move her head she pulled away any ideas on what maybe wrong?

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Could check for mouth rot.


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I have her mouth is fine but it's like if she had mono lol no energy what's so ever and it's a little scary because I've never had this problem before

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Take her to a vet.

Maybe got stunned when her head got caught

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Originally Posted by bcr229

Take her to a vet.

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That's what I told her we should do today

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Originally Posted by M.P.C

Maybe got stunned when her head got caught

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And that's the thing she isn't sure if it happened or not cause she asked her bf and he said no but could be lieing

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Huh.
Any boy friend who "might be lieing" isn't worth keeping.
Well, nothing you or anyone else can do about that.
Sounds like the animals are in better hands for now.

Hope the injured/sick one gets better.

So I was getting her for the vet appointment and I opened her rack and she was gone :(
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That sucks....

Sad story. :(

If her head got caught in the rack, it could've caused internal injuries that you would've never known about such as fractured skull or tears in the meningeal membrane (insert corresponding snake anatomical phrase) that could lead to leaking cerebrospinal fluid, increased cranial pressure, and so on.

I'm sorry for your loss, but when it comes right down to it all life is fragile. Hopefully the how of it is figured out and the responsible party is diligent of about avoiding a repeat.

Yea I felt really bad and had to call her to let her know but I got to keep the body so I Jared her and put her name on the jar :) so I will always have her

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Sorry for your loss. It sounds like you were doing all you could, but there's know way to tell what was wrong without knowing what actually happened.

Ball pythons, actually most snakes, have very soft skulls from what my own vet told me. A small bump on the head probably wouldn't kill her but the heads can be damaged quite easily if hit hard enough.

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Ball pythons, actually most snakes, have very soft skulls from what my own vet told me. A small bump on the head probably wouldn't kill her but the heads can be damaged quite easily if hit hard enough.

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I learned about that from the documentary about titanaboa lol and how they don't find most snakes skulls because of how fragile they are they are usually the first to decompose or break up

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Sorry to hear she passed. Sometimes we just can't do anything. I'm not sure even a vet could have done much to treat a serious head injury on a python.

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Yea I felt really bad and had to call her to let her know but I got to keep the body so I Jared her and put her name on the jar :) so I will always have her

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Even with formalin that snake will rot in a jar that size. I can tell by the color that is has not been fixed already and you would need a 1:10 ratio of tissue:formalin to preserve her. It would take weeks being a scaled creature and it may not turn out without inserting slits in the abdomen. I hope you buried it or something cause if not expect a messy explosion in a a week or so (temperature dependent).

It's in 99% alcohol and ive had done this before with bearded dragon babies that didn't make it out of the egg and that was around 7 months ago and their still fine

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