Very sick Baby. Help!
1. How long have you had your ball python?
10/16/22
2. How old (or how big) is your snake?
15 inches. Weight has been hard to get as she was 44g when I got her and went up to 65 and is now dropping
3. Does it eat on a regular schedule?
she isn’t eating
4. How long since its last meal?
Last Saturday she was syringe fed. A couple weeks before that.
5. What type/size prey is being offered?
Live hopper mice, tried a fuzzy
frozen thawed the same as well as pinkies
6. How often do you offer food?
Right now daily. Leading up to symptoms every 5-7 days
7. What type and size of enclosure does it live in?
20 long glass. Used to be a 40b but last month 20l
8. What are you using as substrate? If it has depth, how deep is it?
Vet has me using paper towels and clumps of moss for humidity
9. What type of heating do you use?
Uth and ceramic overhead
10. Do you use a thermostat to control temperatures?
Yes
11. What do you use to measure/monitor temperatures?
Both thermostats and extra digital in 3 other places as well as with probes
12. What are the surface and ambient temperatures in the enclosure?
90 at floor of UTH placement and 80 overall.
13. What is the average humidity level?
50-70
14. How many and what type of hides does the snake have?
2 hides on both side
15. Is water readily available at all times?
Yes
16. Does the snake live alone or does it share the enclosure with anything else?
Alone
17. How often and for how long is the snake typically handled?
Daily about 15 minutes. I usually gauge it by behavior.
18. Does the snake have any medical history (old injuries or illnesses)?
Current RI no known otherwise
19. Do you have any other reptiles? Have you brought in any new reptiles recently?
Bearded Dragon. A different floor of the house. Last weekend
20. Is there anything specific or unique about your situation that we should be aware of?
She began clicking a few weeks ago. Refusing food for 2 weeks. Brought her to vet and we started antibiotics 1 time a week as she was active, outside of changes to smaller tank and substrate to paper towels we didn’t test.
a couple days after 2nd round of antibiotics she got much much worse. Very bubbly red mouth, lethargy and they took a sample from her lungs. Negative for virus’s culture came back with mainly typical oral bacteria for mouth and body but in her lungs and resistant to all but one. (Came back yesterday). This morning she was very bad, thick mucus mouth, she tried to clear it in her soak, she would stick her face in and wiggle over and over
her mouth is clearly swollen on one side. Will be returning to vet later today.
vet is an exotics vet. A member of Association of Reptile Veterinarians (I may have that in the wrong phrase but still. ). They were recommended by every exotic vet I called when I first tried for her first appointment
please help! I spent over 1000 in vet bills and have been doing everything I have been told. I don’t know what else to do.
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