Recently I lost a snake, a Mojave morph to an unknown illness. Now my four year old normal is coming down with similar symptoms. I am asking if any one knows what this possibly could be.
These are the symptoms: cloudy eyes (this is not them in shed or stuck eye caps!), severe respiratory infection that does not respond much if at all to antibiotics (injection, oral, nebulized), lethargy, loss of appetite, extreme weight loss and death.
I took my Mojave to the vet several times. We tried Fortaz, an oral antibiotic (it was pink), Doxycycline, Baytril and a couple other injected medications that I can't remember the names of and can't locate the paperwork to find out. Baytril was nebulized due to its necrotic effects when injected. Cultures showed a few minor bugs that the medications should have cleared up, but they seemed to have no effect. This snake was kept in quarantine isolation his entire life, but still my other snake seemed to get infected.
She only recently started to show signs: cloudy eyes, respiratory infection, lethargy and loss of appetite. She was taken to the vet for cultures and blood work today (unfortunately they were unable to get blood from her tail and did not want to risk sedating her for a heart draw). The doctor is looking into what this could be and talking to a specialist for me - but I would like the opinions of snake owners as well. She was given an injection of Fortaz to hopefully help her through the weekend and is in isolation in a high humidity, 95f heated tank.
Please help if you can or point me in a right direction. I don't want to lose another snake if at all possible!