Snake will not gain weight

[Kodieh]

I would venture more into why a seven month old snake is on mice personally. Give that snake rats, on a regular basis, and it'll gain weight.

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[Drift]

He said rats are banned in his area.

[satomi325]

If its not parasites, feed it multiple mice or adult asfs.



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[Kodieh]

See if you can get a hold of asfs like Satomi suggested. Those shouldn't be banned in your area.

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[Skilla6000]

I breed my own asfs, and I'm going to start feeding her them, the thing is, I bought both her and her sister from the expo, her sister is atleast 4, maybe 5 times bigger. and that's how I know she is not gaining weight for the people asking. I'm going to start feeding her asfs and get a fecal exam done.

She has also been in QT with the other snakes from the expo, and is still with them, that's why I asked if it can carry on to other snakes.

[Badgemash]

I had a female with a similar issue. Very picky feeder, and was eating less and less, and had quite runny, smelly poos. The fecal testing showed only one strain of gut bacteria, which the vet told me was likely a result of stress (probably from shipping, may have been the expo in your case) causing a bacterial bloom. She got two weeks of antibiotic injections to knock back the bacteria, and I switched her to ASFs (which are technically mice anyway) and she grew like a weed.

Hopefully it's something similar (as in simple and easily treatable) going on with your girl. If possible get her in a different room from your other QT animals, since most gut-related infections are highly transmissible (think about food poisoning for example) and implement some strict hand washing procedures until you know exactly what you're dealing with.

[Skilla6000]

This is starting to stress me out now, I don't have any other places to put here, either in then in the QT rack, which is where the other QT animals are, I don't think the expo would have caused that much stress, cause the expo was back in august when I got these guys, she is no where near big enough to eat more then 1 adult mouse, let alone a full grown asf, going to feed her extra, once she poops, going to take it in for a fecal exam, hopefully everything is ok, and it's nothing to bad.

[satomi325]

How's her body condition? Can you post a picture of her?



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[Crazymonkee]

This is starting to stress me out now, I don't have any other places to put here, either in then in the QT rack, which is where the other QT animals are, I don't think the expo would have caused that much stress, cause the expo was back in august when I got these guys, she is no where near big enough to eat more then 1 adult mouse, let alone a full grown asf, going to feed her extra, once she poops, going to take it in for a fecal exam, hopefully everything is ok, and it's nothing to bad.

I would try going with feeding every 5 days if you're not already. I would get the fecal done to be sure.

[Skilla6000]

I fed her 2 mice, one being an adult, and the other a small one, she took them both.