BP Losing Weight

[galegriffin]

Hi, all. So I'm just going to get right down to it. My BP (who is a little over a year old) has very suddenly started to lose weight. He was 1102g one day, then 1035g another day (maybe after passing some LARGE urates, maybe before, Idk) and then he went to 998g after a HUGE poop and now he's at 977g just randomly. About two days after the huge poop (which was a normal, healthy poop). He still seems to have his appetite. He's been eating fine recently. Idk what could be going on unless I've made a weighing error? His temps are 88-92 on the hot spot, roughly 78-81 on the warm side and in the mid-to-low 70s on the cool side. He's got a warm hide, cool hide, and humid hide and his enclosure was recently cleaned about two weeks ago.

I just switched him to feeders that are roughly 100g each and he downs them just fine, but last time he took some substrate down with his meal. (He eats f/t rats.) Idk if that could have anything to do with what's going on, but yeah.

I wanted to to see if any of y'all have some advice or insight to give. I don't want to stress him out with a vet visit if I don't have to, and I don't have a poo sample to take to a vet because the last time he pooped I threw it away. I didn't know he would have this issue. (For extra info, he only had two rats in his belly when he pooped last and he usually has three or four.)

*Sigh*

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Depends on a few things such as how you weigh your animal, if you first weigh after a meal and the second time after a bowel movement (on empty) there will be what looks like weight loss and discrepancies.

Start weighing your animal on empty each time and see if the animal is losing weight even though he is eating, if so than it will need to be addressed.

[Ba11er]

If your worried that he might not be healthy do a Google search for underweight or sick snakes. There Will be extreme examples of sick snakes but it will give you an idea of how it looks, then look at pics of healthy animals.

When I began weighing my snakes I didn't account for bowel movements so I would see the numbers fluctuate. Also make sure to tare out the scale with whatever your using to hold the snakes in, and that the scale is accurate/appropriate size for the animal.

[Zincubus]

He's not looking wrinkly at all is he ??


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