my snakes dehydrated I think... help?

[LunaTheBp]

So I have my girl Luna, I change her water probably every three to four days. She keeps excreting this yellow liquid and this yellow almost mustard like stuff whenever she excretes urate and from what I've read is a sign of dehydration, any suggestions to fix this? I heard one but I don't know if I could go through with shoving a syringe into a rat and pumping it with water... I love Luna but that would be hard, if it worked even.

[Reinz]

Wow, that is a tough one.
A snake's skin, like ours is designed to keep the elements out. Thus, the only way to get water inside is via the mouth. I have no idea if a vet could do an IV or not. I don't know how difficult it is finding a vein on a BP.
But I digress. It seems that most of the water comes from the food. Many here say they never see their snake drink. I do. What I'm getting at is maybe there is some temporary kidney problem going on here in the way of a bug. Or maybe the food source was just low on water.

The main thing, just keep doing what you are with the water. And when you go buy a rat at the pet store, check out their water supply.

Good luck

[CptJack]

Vets can and do sub-q fluids on snakes.

And that would be where I would start - the vet part of it, anyway.

[DooLittle]

How old is Luna? A baby by chance?

[Reinz]

Vets can and do sub-q fluids on snakes.

And that would be where I would start - the vet part of it, anyway.

I was racking my brain trying to think if that would work on a snake. Probably a better chance than hitting a vein.

[Skiploder]

So I have my girl Luna, I change her water probably every three to four days. She keeps excreting this yellow liquid and this yellow almost mustard like stuff whenever she excretes urate and from what I've read is a sign of dehydration, any suggestions to fix this? I heard one but I don't know if I could go through with shoving a syringe into a rat and pumping it with water... I love Luna but that would be hard, if it worked even.

From what source is this dehydration info coming from?