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    Sick snake? Need advice/opinions

    About 45 minutes ago I was laying in bed and I heard my bp make some wheezing sounds in his cage, being concerned about a respiratory infection I decided to get up to go check on him. I open his cage, move his hide and pick him up to pull him out and check him out. As I'm taking him out he proceeds to have, what I think, is diarrhea all over the floor.

    My question here is whether or not my snake actually had diarrhea or not and what I should do about it. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures, it's 2 am and I was too tired, shocked, and grossed out to think to take a picture. It was very watery with two large white urates. Most of what came out was just a liquid with a slightly greenish brown tint to it and there was a small bit of 'normal' looking poop, although it was a lot softer than usual. Everything about him has been fine, he is a little over a year and a half, he's been growing steadily and he's been eating normally, he's never skipped a meal. His last mouse was last Sunday. I haven't been regularly weighing anymore him since he refuses to stay still long enough so I can't check that to see if he's okay but like I said before, he's been growing steadily.

    My question now is what should I do from here? He's due to be fed in two days, on Sunday, should I try to feed him and see how he does with that? Given that everything else with him seems fine should I try to weigh him and monitor that?

    Also I'd like to add that he's moving around fine after what happened. He didn't seem to be affected by it at all. I took him out two days prior as well and he was acting perfectly fine.

    And to clarify the breathing thing, he is about to shed so a little piece of shed was just sticking out over his nostril and making that sound, so theres nothing respiratory going on.

    Thank you for reading this long post and again sorry for the lack of pictures. Thank you for the help.
    Last edited by bps_in_space; 11-23-2018 at 03:47 AM. Reason: Clarification

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