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    strange bulges or bumps

    i got a question for any long time blood keepers my baby just recently has a couple very noticeable bulges in lower belly. not really sharp but come to a point. didn't notice them last week when i had her out cleaning her cage but last night she had 3 of these bulges all with-in 3 inches of the vent closely spaced less then an inch apart. she is a lil under a year old never been around a male so i know there is no chance of her having eggs.

    ate last week a very prego mouse had to many and didn't have room for more babies right now so sacrificed 1

    could it just be undigested bones making these bulges in close to 20 years of keeping herps I've never seen something like this before

    while typing this i rechecked her and the bumps are gone and can't feel nothing like what they looked like in her belly. so just kind of curious if this has happened to others and if so if you took the snake to the vet and what was found out by tests. (i would of taken her to the vet but like i said i noticed it last-night and upon rechecking this morning the bumps were gone.
    i just like to argue and get you riled up dont take it to mean i dont like you or what I'm agueing about. I'm doing it for the joy of argueing dont anybody like good old fashion debates

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    Re: strange bulges or bumps

    Could be fecal matter making its way out. Make sure she is hydrated and make sure she does not get oddly shaped. Check out this post for what an impacted blood looks like.

    http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showthread.php?t=57641

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    Re: strange bulges or bumps

    nope none of the pix looked anything like what these bumps or bulges looked like kind of like something was trying to poke out just a lil ways from the vet and were about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch pushing the skin outwards wish i would of had my camera charged so i could of got a pix of them

    to me looked kind of like a couple of her ribs were turned outward and trying to poke threw the skin but she aint been handled roughly or dropped so know that aint the cause of the strange bumps or bulges well unless snakes can twist there ribs in an outward position but pretty sure they can't

    only reason i posted this is my son had a wild caught anole that got what looks like zits on and around it's vent (seen anoles get these in the past but were mainly in the mouth where insects bite them as they are being eaten.)

    only thing i can think of is the prego mouse i feed her got mostly digested and then all the babies the prego mouse had in her belly spilled out into the snake before they were digested. and some of them before being digested made the couple strange bulges bumps

    aint worried about her being compacted my girl loves her water bowl she lays in it at least 1 day a week well unless she has recently eaten a big meal then she lays in her hide on the warm end of the cage till her food is digested
    i just like to argue and get you riled up dont take it to mean i dont like you or what I'm agueing about. I'm doing it for the joy of argueing dont anybody like good old fashion debates

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    Re: strange bulges or bumps

    I have seen what you are talking about on my blood when she had not pooped for awhile, they were large hard bumps pressing out from the skin, the ones I saw were hard and surprisingly large as well... They are most likely chunks of urates and poo, they dissapeared because they just shifted inside your snakes bowels, give em a little message and you will feel them move and twist around, its just yer snakes backed up bowels thats all! Nothing to worry about, just give the snake a nice warm soak or two every week, they should come out on their own eventually.

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