Vet Visit

[Zinger333]

Well lets see if i can sum up the past few months real quick....well i got a breeding pair of het pibalds. well the male eats like crazy and the female hasn't. i force fed her once to see if that would jump start her eating but it didn't....so i made an appoitment for the vet and he said that this was the best looking snake he has seen in years, more on that later. well he did confirm that nothing was wrong with her and she could still be recovering from her move. so he gave her a concoction (sp) of vitamins mainly A, B, and C. so i am to try and feed her just like i always do and see if she eats. so i'll let ya'll know what happens on feeding day (which is wendsday).

so yeah the vet said that the one thing he sees the most of is rodent bites, he went on for like 15 minutes on how to feed a snake. but yeah he siad that her mouth is fine, and she has no sighns of RI, or any type of parasites. but he just loved her, siad that her skin was in awsome shape, and that she was very muscular. but yeah i'm happy that i was right and that nothing was wrong with her but i'm just a little upset that i had to pay 52 bucks to find that out. oh well....it's the price that i will pay for the care and well being of my snakes.

Zinger

[frankykeno]

By "breeding pair" do you mean they are of breeding size or simply that you got a male and female? The female has bite scars? Since these are hets you must have gotten them with paperwork from a reputable breeder (well hope you did) so have you thought of contacting this breeder for advice on the non-feeding female? Could you describe how you've set up their housing as husbandry is often the root problem for refusals.

[lillyorchid]

I'd call the breeder you got them from and see how he/she got those snakes to eat.

[Zinger333]

By breeding pair i mean that i got a male and female.


no the female dosen't i was merely saying that the vet sees a lot of snakes with bite marks.

yes i have talked to the breeder he feeds his snakes just like i feed mine.

the set up i have is very simple. i have the green carpet for substrate...yes it cleans thouroughly (sp) with bleach on a regular basis. two hides one on the hot and one on the cold, and a water dish. i have a uth on the hot side. the temp's are perfect on average about 95 on the hot and 82 on the cold. the humidity is almost always around 50.