Taking home a neglected banana, any special tips?

[ferrislongdog]

So, I have decided I need to take this poor creature home with me as no one in this store I work at is showing any real concern and I am honestly enraged by what I am seeing. This banana has been in the store for months now. It never was a healthy weight, and the fact it literally refuses to eat, as the vet said it was possible it's so inbred it's stupid and cannot take food on its own, makes me cringe when I think of random person coming and buying it for their first snake.It has been assist-fed it's every tiny pinkie meal. It was in the private isolation room, getting daily betadine soaks, stressed 24/7, for probably a month until I pressed that we stop the soaks asap. Then they decided it looked like it was retaining weight and returned it to the sales floor where it was at least left alone.
However. I decided to check on it today when I was closing.
Holy hell.


It is a horror show. Skin drooping off every part of the body, ribs outlined, a spine so visible it could give you a papercut. Could not curl up, was unsteady. So mushy and squishy it made me uncomfortable because there was zero muscle.

Now I already own one thriving ball, and have always been on top of researching more. So basics I get. However, for this case, I was wondering if there was anything special I should do? Considering setup (do NOT tell me to put it in a 6qt tub with a bowl of water. I will not be using anything shoebox related.) or mainly anything I should do for the first time I try to feed?