Please Help Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Allright so i just got home from work and found my male saharan sand boa like this. i just got him sat from a dealer and he looked fine then and he looked fine last night but now this. also just so you know his cage enviroment. i have him with the female i bought in a 10gl(it is a temp cage) with substrate in there as the bedding. i dont have a heat pad cause its always around 80 in our house. jsut please help me.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...onepics227.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...onepics223.jpg

he also has brusing around his head. please help

That looks awful. Take it to a vet NOW.

That looks really bad. I would take both of them to a vet immediately.

Hi,

I think he needs to see a vet as well. :(

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keep us posted on how he turns out and best wishes for his swift recovery.


dr del

So sorry to hear that! Get him to a vet ASAP! I'll pray for his speedy recovery! Keep me posted! Whatever it is it looks painful. :(

Good luck.

He looks really dehydrated. Those also look like burns.

Soak him, put him on newspaper and go to the vet.

He needs fluids though.

yeah thats terrible looking, poor snake.

hope your snake is ok.. let us know.

i just wanted to thank everyone for there help but he didnt make it! he actually died not 30 minutes after i took those pictures. and i dont think it was scale rot nor burns. first off because he shed two days before in my care and as far as the burns he didnt have any when we got him and he couldnt have burnt himself in my care because he didnt have a heat pad!


but thank you all for the help

The female he was with didn't constrict him, did she? Those looked kind of like bruises on him..

I would contact the seller and ask why he's so thin and dehydrated.

thats the thing though he looked perfect when i got him and then i came home and this, by the way i did get him out the night before and none of this was on him he looked like the day i got him ill take pics of the female to show you just for comparison

I too wonder if he wasn't constricted by his tank-mate.
A good squeeze could lead to internal bleeding, which could lead to symptoms like dehydration of the body, bruising, and internal bleeding into the belly.
I'm not experienced with this sort of thing, but I watch CSI :P

sorry for your loss though...hope you get this figured out.

Definitely get a Necropsy done by your vet ASAP - keep the body in the fridge. That's the only way you'll know for sure.

I'm not all up to date on viruses and bacteria... but this looks more like physical trauma than anything biological. Meaning, I don't see the need to take the animal to the vet for a necropsy in case of spreading infection when it was really an overnight thing.

But, given the little bit of facts we do know, it would be nice just to have peace of mind to take the living one to the vet for a check up. Get the tests done on her to make sure she is ok.

heres some pics of the female and i do have a vet appoitment set up.

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...onepics228.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...onepics229.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...onepics231.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...onepics232.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...onepics233.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...onepics234.jpg