New boa 3 lumps!

[Tyson88]

Bought this boa around 4 days ago. While he has fed and seems 100% healthy. I did notice these lumps 3 quarters down his body. The pet store have agreed to send him to the vets anyone seen anything like these before?

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[Lady mkrj58]

I see you had no feed back I hope you took up the Free vet visit and you snake is ok.

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[Reinz]

Vet for sure!

After reading the current thread about Nova's surgery from a lump, it was a good thing Bcr229 took her in!

[Albert Clark]

Can only speculate on this. Herp vet and testing. Could be a number of things. Needs X-rays .Sorry to see this and I hope it gets resolved.

[bcr229]

Vet for sure!

After reading the current thread about Nova's surgery from a lump, it was a good thing Bcr229 took her in!

Nova's swelling was actually symmetric - she looked like she'd swallowed a softball.

I agree that the OP's snake needs to see a vet.

[Sauzo]

Nova's swelling was actually symmetric - she looked like she'd swallowed a softball.

I agree that the OP's snake needs to see a vet.

Kind of off topic but I'm curious as to what was wrong with that stuff sausage boa of bcr's wife? Did it end being just fat? Or was their actually an issue?

And to the OP, you definitely need to get that boa into the vet asap. That doesn't look good to me.

[Lady mkrj58]

Vet for sure!

After reading the current thread about Nova's surgery from a lump, it was a good thing Bcr229 took her in!

Yes it was a good thing she recieved Vet care big thumbs up for Bcr229 , It would be interesting to know what caused this
.. I've seen dogs grow lumps but never a snake they say you learn something everyday. she is a pretty gal.

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[bcr229]

Kind of off topic but I'm curious as to what was wrong with that stuff sausage boa of bcr's wife? Did it end being just fat? Or was their actually an issue?

Too much food, too little exercise. When I first picked her up I thought she was squirrelly from lack of handling, turns out it was from lack of strength in her back end to hold herself. She is slowly squaring up and getting stronger in the back end, but it's not a fast process.

Right now she's eating, defecating (not much because I'm feeding her lightly), and shedding normally. She is being housed in a Boamaster arboreal 36"x24"x24" to encourage her to move around and climb on her own, plus she gets handled for 15 minutes a day except for 3 days after feeding.

[Sauzo]

Too much food, too little exercise. When I first picked her up I thought she was squirrelly from lack of handling, turns out it was from lack of strength in her back end to hold herself. She is slowly squaring up and getting stronger in the back end, but it's not a fast process.

Right now she's eating, defecating (not much because I'm feeding her lightly), and shedding normally. She is being housed in a Boamaster arboreal 36"x24"x24" to encourage her to move around and climb on her own, plus she gets handled for 15 minutes a day except for 3 days after feeding.

Ah nice. Yeah she did look like a stuffed sausage lol. My big girl was starting to get the "boa hips" so I've cut her down on feeding to every 3 weeks or so and I try and make her climb around too. Good to hear your little worm is squaring up. Kind of crazy how a little baby could get that fat that fast. The previous guy must have been packing her with fuzzy rats or other fatty foods.

[Tyson88]

The pet shop has hil back at the moment while waiting fot vet to operate to have a look

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