Vet Visit

[heathers*bps]

Yes, I did forget to mention fungal, mainly because personally I've never dealt with it nor seen it myself in any animals, I suppose this would be treated differently.

Most RIs can be treated just fine with Baytril and good husbandry, and some simple treated water. If your BP can't recover from an RI, you are doing something wrong. I have treated everything from colubrids, to boids, to monitors for RI, and I have NEVER found a case of RI serious enough to need to waste money at a vet.

How would one go about getting Baytril without first going to a vet? Baytril also has failed before at curing RI's. Why, you ask? Because the type of bacteria causing the RI is immune to that type of antibiotic. Thus, going back to the first point of needing a culture. See how this works?

Congratulations on being a cure all handy man. I, for one, would not put my snakes health at further risk, and even their life, for the simple fact of saving a few dollars.

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Can we make an exception for the guy that's owned a snake for all of three days now and take Monty to the vet if I wanna' waste a little bit of money?

I'm honestly hoping that the wheezing is actually just heavy breathing. I don't hear him doing it all the time, generally just sometimes when he's active or when I've had to pick him up. When I got him from my buddy, he didn't have a UTH, just overhead. It also seemed like his cage hadn't been cleaned in quite some time, some of the aspen bedding was stuck to the bottom of the tank, I'm assuming because of urine. I've fixed that up and husbandry is pretty good. Just went ahead and put him in a new tank since I was planning on getting a BP anyway, but I ended up getting him for free along with his cage. Humidity might be a little high, haven't quite got that exact yet, but warm side sits around 89-92 and the cool side is about 77-79.

Should I feed him tonight or wait until after the vet visit tomorrow or wait for a few days? I was told that he hasn't eaten in about 4 weeks. He doesn't appear too skinny to my untrained eyes though.

I would bring your cool side temps up to 80-82 degrees. I would also suggest holding off on feeding him, since you will be moving him and the vet will be handling him and checking him over. You don't want a regurged rat laying on the vet table.