Inclusion Body Disease

[bcr229]

If she might not have IBD, are there any obvious illnesses or diseases that would explain her eating habits and low weight? She's been tested for parasites through a swab which came back clear but i'll be testing her again as soon as i get a fecal sample from her to have sent off.

I've given the vet all information i have about her including everything you mentioned, including weight logs and feeding diaries. And everything i learned from her breeder before they just stopped replying to my questions.

She's never regurgitated thankfully. And I had quarantined Aries for a month before putting her in the same room as my other snake but i realise now that i probably didn't keep her quarantined long enough?

Some BP's are just fussy little non-feeders. I have two adult females that eat for 2-3 feedings and then stop for 4-6 months before they eat another 2-3 times.

Ball pythons do NOT have to eat every week or even every two weeks. The only reason people push food on them that hard and fast is because they want them up to size/weight for breeding if young, or to put weight on for the next breeding season if an adult. Adult non-breeders are fine on a monthly schedule.

A lot of my ball pythons are also out roaming during the day also, especially the boys - they're looking for ways to get to the girls. That's no reason to take them to the vet.