Quote Originally Posted by Cheesenugget View Post
Please read my thread:

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...ot-vet-advice)

Mine was a much older snake, but he too had growths that were soft to the touch close to his cloaca that grew in 3x the size and very aggressively.

Chances are what you are seeing is similar or it's an infection. Either way, the vet must diagnose and treat this asap. A biopsy is a must and if possible, while it is small, to be surgically removed asap. It may not prevent future bumps from coming back depending on what the cause is, but this requires a more time sensitive and aggressive approach because they are growing, and that is a serious concern.

In the meantime, do not touch them, it usually makes them grow faster. I would start looking at the quality of life of your snake until it is in the clear. If it is cancerous, those masses will probably give him less than a year to live. But you must find any way you can to take it to the vet to get a biopsy and/or removal. Not doing so will most certainly sentence your snake to death. Drive to another city, call your local zoo, etc.

Hello, thank you for your answer.
Very sorry about your snake your post is actually what I found on line and was read yesterday. It scared me a lot and was a very sad situation for you.

I live in Montenegro, we don't have a reptile vet anywhere in country.
Montenegro is a small country, just 600 000 inhabitants. We are located under Serbia. I live in a city where we actually have a vet that is most promising for treating other animals than cats or dogs, but the thing is that even tests, like cytology you are mentioning, can't be done. Vet can look at the cells under the microscope and that is all. Anesthesia for reptiles is also non existent.
It is really not a problem of going somewhere or money, it is a problem of just not having the service.
All they can offer me is - X-ray, not sure how it is called in English but looking of poop sample for bacteria, fungus or parasites, and they have a machine to do blood tests but they never took blood from a snake.
I am planning to do an x-day and poop test because in your case you found an E.colli infection and parasites. So I hope in such case I would have diagnosis.

Best wishes