Help with burm

[reptileexperts]

It's not that the burms are prone to RIs, it's that humans are prone to improper husbandry.

Do it right and 95% of the time you'll have no problems. Of course I've only produced a few hundred, and only kept them for about 20 years and never did have one get over 21 ft and a couple hundred pounds or so, so maybe I should go back to the internet too.

It's great the kid wants to help, but parroting what he reads, or what anyone reads and repeats as fact without really knowing if it is, isn't really helping or teaching anyone. Talk to breeders and keepers, go to the sites of the big guys, join forums and Herp Societies.

Do OTHER stuff than cruise the Net.

Kept properly they're not really prone to anything other than growing.

In order to not be a troll to you wilomn as you are quickly becoming to myself, I will only say this . . . Good for you. Now, in respect to that. Being the OP got the snake in poor condition, and bad husbandry is key, the experience of what is probably wrong is likely what occurs when the conditions and needs are not met. Since I don't abuse my animals to make them sick and see what sickness pops up first, I must result in third party experience on the matter. Not good enough? So sorry. Tell you what, go take one of your burms, underfeed it, lower its humidity to typical room levels. Let its water run dry all the time. Keep it on, oh i dont know, pine shreedings. Yeah! OK ok, and feed it a hopper mouse once a month, people do that right? Ok, good. Now keep this up for a few weeks. Oh and go ahead and turn your heater off. Who needs it! Now, when your snake gets sick you can give us your first hand experience on what sickness hits it first.

PS. Please do not refer to me as "Kid". The college degrees on my wall have earned me at least that respect from you. You may refer to me as Sir, Reptileexperts, or Mr. Conway. Thank you.