Quote Originally Posted by jsmorphs2 View Post
Looks like one to me. This is all very interesting.

One of the questions I had about the cysts while reading this thread was are they passed out of the body in mammals? From what I read it seemed the cysts are internal and surgically removed. But like the OP mentioned, that species isn't found in reptiles.

Maybe it was just some other benign liquid cyst that passed?
You are correct. Which it was why it was so bizarre. It would have been so unlikely to have been a cyst. But could you imagine what I was thinking when I found this thing in the tub of a male ball python!? Egg didn't even enter my mind...went straight to parasite. Since the possibility of egg was not relevant to me at that time I could only try to wrap my head around cyst.