Ok, guys, what's this?

You may or may not recall these photos:

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...Badpoop002.jpg

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...Badpoop003.jpg

Those were taken about a month ago, and they came from a rescued ball python. He's been to several vets several times, and the latest (and best) vet told me, after giving him medication, that he should be fine in three weeks. Today marks three weeks, so I went to check on him and found that he'd made another messy poop. Pretty much like the one in those photos. Here's something from tonight:

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...kes/poopie.jpg

mmm, yum. So ... do I wait and see how he is in another week, or do I take him back to the vet now? The last check-up showed that he did have internal ickies but nothing too bad, so I'm honestly surprised that he's still having runny, disgusting poops. :(

Call the vet and email them the pictures too... at least, that's what I would do.

To me, it looks like a tapeworm. I washed the black house off with water and it definitely looked tapeworm-ish when it wasn't covered in poop. He was diagnosed with tapeworms at the first vet, but the second vet thought it was a misdiagnosis. I dunno...

It looks like tapeworm to me as well. best I can tell from the pic. I would go with the above see if you can email the pic to the vet. alot of times when they run a parasite treatment on someething like that expecially that size you will see it come out when its dead. But I would want to double check that expecially since the second vet discounted that tapeworms could be an issue. If you didnt toss it you may want to throw it in a ziplock and see if the vet would like to see that as well.

How embarrassing for the little guy:oops:poor guy. Im no vet but it could be a roundworm as well. Good luck, i hope you can find a decent vet.

Ok, thanks guys. I'll give the vet a call today and see if I can get an e-mail address.

ickyy :P I don't really have anything to add, accept that I was just thinking I'm glad my snakes don't have messy poops like that, especially Khai, cuz he likes to hold it until I handle him LOL :rage: he pooped on my favorite shirt today...-.-

i like how the second pic is next to a menu makes me hungry but really loks like some kind of worms to me could they get that if the mouse or rat had it?

So were you able to get ahold of the vet

Not yet, no, but I will be calling tomorrow. I really hate to put this off but this is finals week so I'm stressed to the max and have no free time. I cannot miss my exams. I'm aiming for an appointment next Wednesday.

Make Time;) Finals can wait:gj:

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Originally Posted by juddb

Make Time;) Finals can wait:gj:

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Ummm yeah, about that....
Sadly, no student is in control of finals and finals can't wait. They are the culmination of the quarter, the culmination of the effort, the culmination of the money investment. Miss the finals and the quarter is a wash.

That said, finals are not typically all day and every day.

That said, the message is: Do your best to make it happen as soon as it can ;)

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Originally Posted by starmom

Ummm yeah, about that....
Sadly, no student is in control of finals and finals can't wait. They are the culmination of the quarter, the culmination of the effort, the culmination of the money investment. Miss the finals and the quarter is a wash.

That said, finals are not typically all day and every day.

That said, the message is: Do your best to make it happen as soon as it can ;)

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I know, i was kidding.....

looks exactly like worms and they look to be dead so he may be passing the dead worms out of his system

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Originally Posted by juddb

i know, i was kidding.....

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:8::8::8:

Called the vet today; have an appointment for next Wednesday at ten. Apparently, parasites have been known to affect motor skills, and it often looks like a neurological issue (which is what he looks like he's got). So I'm going to talk to the vet about it when I go in. Wish us luck.

Luck to your snake and to you for your finals :)

Yes good luck, and I can relate on the finals issue, getting ready for Physics and Accounting finals next week. :gj: