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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by heatseeker872591[/i] [br]hi there i made a post a few weeks ago regarding my big grey rat snake, i took him to the vets and he got an injection and it seemed to sort his heavy breathing out, so he must have had some minor RI. however it has been 3 weeks since i last fed him because he has been pooping nearly every 24hours from day 1 i owned him and at the beginning i thought he just had a blokced gut where he was over fed by the original owner, but as it has been 3 weeks since his last feed ,im wondering why or how he could be doing this because his gut should be empty by now.? i know i have only had this snake for 2 months and i am convinced he has not been looked after properly by the previous owner ( and i feel like i could ring the guys neck if i know who he was) ie power fed or fed every day. and when magnum has been pooping its not alot in size ( my little 4 ft corn snakes poop is alot bigger than his) but you know when a snake poops its a mixture of the yellow liquidy stuff along with the main stools with Magnum my rat snake, its about 80% that yellow liquid stuff and just a few main stools and they are very black in colour. i have already got him booked in to the vets again for saturday and i am going to try and get a good poo samble by feeding him 2 small rats on wednesday, i have been reading up on snake internal parasites and i am hoping that if he has got a parasite it is not the crypto parasite as that is incurable and would mean he would have to be put down. i think the other ones are curable. but what i cant work out is that Magnum is a big healthy looking snake and he weighs just under 2kg at 6 and a half feet long, there is no sign of weight loss and luckily i been keeping him on newspaper as its easy to clean out and disinfect the vivarium with that, as i been having to do it every day coz of how often he is pooping and also coz of his massive bulk he just bulldozes through the vivarium and eventually screws the newspaper up exposing the bare floor of the viv underneath. fingers crossed i can get him sorted out because he is a magninfiecnt looking snake and the biggest grey rat snake i have ever seen, definatley would never find another one like him. you can view him by looking up my user name heatseeker872591 on youtube.com [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.