Half of Ball python paralyzed

[littleindiangirl]

Taking from Jen H's loss, she had her animals for well over the few weeks/months that we all rule as IBD prime territory. I dont know if they ever found out what it was, but I think with as little as any of us know, we shouldnt rule out anything especially something as serious as IBD until the specialists have time to work on it.

[rabernet]

Taking from Jen H's loss, she had her animals for well over the few weeks/months that we all rule as IBD prime territory. I dont know if they ever found out what it was, but I think with as little as any of us know, we shouldnt rule out anything especially something as serious as IBD until the specialists have time to work on it.

Jen's animals weren't suspect of having IBD, but some other type of virus instead. And even then, the team that was supposed to test the bodies mishandled them and let them deteriorate past the point of being able to test them. I've not seen any other updates since then from her. I do need to go check her blog. To my limited knowledge IBD doesn't result in blood being expelled from the lungs as were the symptoms of her animals.

[littleindiangirl]

Jen's animals weren't suspect of having IBD, but some other type of virus instead. And even then, the team that was supposed to test the bodies mishandled them and let them deteriorate past the point of being able to test them. I've not seen any other updates since then from her. I do need to go check her blog. To my limited knowledge IBD doesn't result in blood being expelled from the lungs as were the symptoms of her animals.

Sorry Rab, i just thought it jumping the gun to say it's ruled out IBD because of how long he's had the rescues.

I thought that it wasn't necessarily always a few weeks that IBD kills pythons and we know too little to rule something completely out because of the time line.

[rabernet]

And you may be correct, Connie - from what I've learned from Adam - it kills in under 30 days from exposure.