Something is not right

This girl has been like this for about a week now.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v440/SPJ01/003.jpg

When is she due? It looks almost as if she were egg bound near the vent.

She has not been with a male. :O

Any idea what might be happening? Vet trip time?

Have you felt her up? Feel anything going on thats strange?

If I'm not mistaken, females can still develop follicles even if they are not bred, if they are cycled, normally they would just be reabsorbed. Maybe thats whats going on?

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Originally Posted by SPJ

She has not been with a male. :O

Any idea what might be happening? Vet trip time?

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OH!!

Well then I would suggest palpating her (gently) see if you could feel anything.

Does she act in pain?

Any trauma that you know of? (fall, rat bite, exposure to a non-QT snake,etc.)?

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

Have you felt her up?

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The wife wouldn't appreciate me doing that. :D









I suck at palpating but it does appear to be some eggs in there.

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Originally Posted by lord jackel

OH!!

Well then I would suggest palpating her (gently) see if you could feel anything.

Does she act in pain?

Any trauma that you know of? (fall, rat bite, exposure to a non-QT snake,etc.)?

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Actually she is still in QT here so she has had no exposure to anything. She felt like she has eggs but she is not supposed to be gravid. She is the one who I treated for scale rot and according to her previous owner was supposedly never kept with another snake.

She looks almost "feverish"...reddish on her neck...laying on her side....seems too hot...

she looks kind of impacted on her tail end....has she gone "potty" (it's a mom word) lately?

2 weeks ago left a nice package.
I just checked her. That's bad flash or something. Her neck looks normal.

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Originally Posted by SPJ

Actually she is still in QT here so she has had no exposure to anything. She felt like she has eggs but she is not supposed to be gravid. She is the one who I treated for scale rot and according to her previous owner was supposedly never kept with another snake.

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Is this the same snake you posted close up photos of her scale rot??...

If so...i would not be surprised if you had eggs soon....from what you said, I would not have trusted a word that person said

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Originally Posted by SPJ

2 weeks ago left a nice package.
I just checked her. That's bad flash or something. Her neck looks normal.

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Oh great then....Photo looked reddish

is she "acting" funny?

really looks like she is carrying eggs and about ready to lay though you would probably know better than me....

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Originally Posted by SPJ

Actually she is still in QT here so she has had no exposure to anything. She felt like she has eggs but she is not supposed to be gravid. She is the one who I treated for scale rot and according to her previous owner was supposedly never kept with another snake.

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How well do you trust the person you bought her from? She sure has all the signs of being gravid (just based on the pic). If you felt something it really can only be one of 2 things - eggs or urates. Either of which could be stuck in the pipe.

I would normally suggest soaking her to help try to "move her along" but since you were dealing with scale rot I would suggest a vet trip as a safer alternative. (This assumes you don't care about any potential eggs)

Have you seen her poop yet?

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Originally Posted by lord jackel

How well do you trust the person you bought her from? She sure has all the signs of being gravid (just based on the pic). If you felt something it really can only be one of 2 things - eggs or urates. Either of which could be stuck in the pipe.

I would normally suggest soaking her to help try to "move her along" but since you were dealing with scale rot I would suggest a vet trip as a safer alternative. (This assumes you don't care about any potential eggs)

Have you seen her poop yet?

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I don't trust a thing the guy I got her from says after how this 100% healthy snake arrived with scale rot.
She has deficated fine. Did it under the newspaper this last time just to make a mess. :mad:
She appears and feels gravid. Other than laying like this and feeling like she has eggs in her, she acts normal.

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Originally Posted by lord jackel

I would suggest a vet trip as a safer alternative. (This assumes you don't care about any potential eggs)

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Time to call the vet. I'm not concerned with the eggs. IMO she is in no condition to have a clutch after what she was like when she arrived here. It's way too soon and would be too stressful on her. Heck, she's not even out of QT yet.

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Originally Posted by SPJ

Time to call the vet. I'm not concerned with the eggs. IMO she is in no condition to have a clutch after what she was like when she arrived here. It's way too soon and would be too stressful on her. Heck, she's not even out of QT yet.

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Good Choice...keep us posted.

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Originally Posted by lord jackel

Good Choice...keep us posted.

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I agree...

and please let us know how you make out

Yikes, she's full of surprises!