Hey yall, my albino ball python is around 350 grams and currently visiting my vet to cure him!
Since I got him he has had parasites, pinworms, and now pentastomads. He was on live mice since that is what his breeder fed him. I switched him the frozen after assuming the mice were the cause of the parasites. All three of the parasites were treated with panacur. Ghost loves to eat and switched over easily only waiting a few extra days to frozen thawed. It took a little patience to figure out he liked them VERY hot and smelly (ew)! I recently moved to Boston and got him checked by an exotic pet hospital! He has pentastomads and this vet gave him the medicine through a tube down his esophagus so he got all the medicine (I used to just open mouth and syringe it in). Since his first dose of medication he has completely stopped eating.... It's been about a month. I dont want to resort back to frozen because of the parasites. I brought him to the vet and they ran ex Rays and everything looked good! He lost a little weight, so they gave him some vitamin food through the tube again, but he had grown stronger and fought it so he didn't get quite as much as they wanted. I can't sample his poop to see if he still has parasites because he isn't eating! My vet isn't too worried because he's acting completely normal besides the eating. If he doesn't eat by this week my vet wants me to take him in for blood work.
P.s. He's eaten 2 months on f/t so I don't think he'd randomly want live again? I know the move may have stressed him out but he ate for a good month (4 mice) before he stopped.
Another thing that was strange was the last mouse he ate a month ago when he ate it brown stuff squirted out of his neck/mouth when ghost constricted it and there was blood all over the place! This has never happen to us before? Ghost still ate it but is this normal???
I know my vet is amazing and doing everything but do you guys have any ideas of anything that could be wrong with my baby!?
Thank you so much!
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Reply With Quote
