Worried about Ma-tsu

[Perry]

Glad to hear Ma-tsu's surgery was a success. Hopefully she recover's great and that you find out exactly what those little buggers are. Also I hope Neptune doesn't have them either. Good luck with both of them!

[MedusasOwl]

Ma-tsu is recovering nicely, btw. Still waiting to hear back on the bugs... I haven't noticed any bumps on Neptune but I'm gonna have the vet help me check him over after we know what it is Ma-tsu's got.

I took a real quick snapshot of her stitches while I was checking for swelling or anything else I should be panicking about. Kinda fuzzy, but she was very "Noooo, I doooon't waaaaannaaaa... " squirmy and sulky and just wanted to be left alone. Looks good, healing nice, and one quick pic then she went back to her nap. Poor sweetie.

[MelissaFlipski]

Awww. Poor girl. It's always sad to see stitches. But I am glad the buggers are out. I hope she is back to her normal self as soon as can be. Good catch on that one, btw. You care for your snakes well!

[kc261]

Good to hear Ma-tsu is recovering.

I'm not sure I'd ever seen such a close-up pic of a VBB before. Those very pointy scales are nifty looking! So different from a BPs. I also don't remember noticing it when I held a Taiwan Beauty at a pet store or a Trinket at a show. Is it unique to the VBBs or am I just not observant? Or maybe it was because both of the ones I held were youngsters.

Thanks again for sharing these beauties with all of us.

[MedusasOwl]

Thank you, still waiting to hear back on the bugs! I asked today while making an appointment for one of my rabbits because it's always something.

Yes, I'm pretty sure Taiwans have similarly shaped scales, but I don't tend to notice how pointy they are when I'm handling my snakes either. Photos are cool like that, make us notice things we didn't before. I notice the texture more during handling. Every reptile show I go to I'm amazing at how soft the Retics are! And yes, I cuddle a baby retic at virtually every show.

Here's a couple of older nice close-ups of Ma-tsu scales while she's in the blue. A friend got permission to use of the first one as a dragon scale icon for an RPG she's doing. snake scale close-ups fascinate me, I wish I had the patience to do them justice art wise.

http://www.bluegorgon.com/matsuwallpaper3.bmp
http://www.bluegorgon.com/matsuwallpaper2.bmp

[MelissaFlipski]

Gorgeous pictures! The shape of the scales is great!

[kc261]

Those close up pics are awesome! The contrast of textures between the pointy scales and the mist droplets is just wow.

[Shelby]

'In the blue' indeed! Great pics there.

[MedusasOwl]

Thank you.

Well, it's official: It's tape worms. Now we're basically waiting on a decision amongst the vets on how to treat it. There's a shot that should take care of it, but they're not 100% that it's ok to use with reptiles and wonder if it's better to try and find and cut all of them out. I'm hoping the anti-tapeworm shot turns out to be a safe way to go... anybody else have experience with this?

[Blu Mongoose]

Hope all goes well. Glad to hear she's on her way to recovery.
Let us know how it goes with the tape worm treatment