Any Ideas?

A few days ago I acquired a Corn Island male, and he has a lump in his tail, after the vent.

I have been told that it could be a fatty deposit? Or maybe even a cyst of some type?

Does anyone have experience with this?

It is extremely hard and it does not protrude at all.


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wow really??????


Tons of help.......

Idk about it being a fatty deposit.

I would wait a week, and see what it does. If it stays the same or gets large, a vet appointment might be best. Just my 2 cents though, I don't really have any experience on something like this.

EDIT: after a second look, it could be some sort of infection..maybe.

Hope this helps.

Any other thoughts?


Man...I should have titled this "Is this a morph?"

Id say some form of calcium deposit on the bone.

Or, a healed broken bone of some sort

Or a bit of cartilage....

Some infections will also "form" themselves into hard deposits wont they?

Cyst?

I keep checking back to see if anyone has a good idea what that is....cause I sure don't. Good luck man, hopefully you will figure it out.
And yes, I know I was a HUGE help;) lol

Looks like a tail bump to me.
Let us know when you find out.
I don't think it'll bother the snake.
No help again!!!

I had a Ball Python (rescue) come to me similar to yours. It turned out to be a infection. The vet removed the infection and he was placed on antibiotics.

Often in reptiles, infections are a hard mass. I would recommend taking him to the vet, asap. I hope he's okay and it turns out to be nothing serious!

Sorry Pat I missed this one, I had a boa rescue that was here for a couple months that also had a bump in his tail like that.

It was an infenction that the vet gave me some antiobotics for and it cleared right up.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

wow really??????


Tons of help.......

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How bout vet?

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Originally Posted by Rakk101

Sorry Pat I missed this one, I had a boa rescue that was here for a couple months that also had a bump in his tail like that.

It was an infenction that the vet gave me some antiobotics for and it cleared right up.

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Did she give you injectable antibiotics?


That was the kinda info I was waitin for!!!

Yes, I do not remember what they where called, I will look in my charts later tonight and see what I can find. I may have given it all to the person that adopted the boa

I do remember that it felt very hard but she was able to extract some fluid out of it to make it go down.

My girlfriend is going to take him into work, just totally curious.

Good luck, let us know what it was

Large hemi's... lol just kidding.