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heatseeker872591
Hatchling
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 07/06/2010 : 16:10:48
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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 |
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heatseeker872591
Hatchling
United Kingdom
355 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2010 : 16:42:25
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| i also forgot to mention that he has never shed in all the time i had owned him, how often should a fully grown rat/corn snake shed, blake my 4 yr old corn can shed from as often as every 4 weeks to every 8 weeks |
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matty18714
The Count of Corniness
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/06/2010 : 16:57:46
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| Good luck at the vets. I wouldnt expect him to shed any more often then every 2 months or so. |
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heatseeker872591
Hatchling
United Kingdom
355 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2010 : 20:01:02
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| thanks for the reply. its just very hard at the mo looking at him thinking that he isnt well coz he looks so active and normal. hopefully the vets will find some sort of diagnosis |
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Mouse
Yearling
United Kingdom
958 Posts |
Posted - 08/06/2010 : 10:23:46
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| Good luck! |
 
1.0.0 - Gobo - Snow Corn (RIP)
0.1.0 - Sprockett - Normal/hypo/het snow Corn
2.0.0 Anery Hatchlings
0.1.0 Amel Hatchling
0.1.0 Normal Hatchling
*Location - Southampton, UK*
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Sta~ple
qeeun speler
United Kingdom
6129 Posts |
Posted - 08/06/2010 : 16:33:59
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| Good luck with the big fella! |
  
A very special super, duper thanks for K :3 |
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heatseeker872591
Hatchling
United Kingdom
355 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2010 : 18:34:55
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| thanks everyone, i checked his feeding records today and he was last fed a month ago (4 weeks) : 0 yet how he managed to even have his gut still producing poo and excreting it nearly every 24 hours within those 4 weeks is a mystery. i had to feed him today just a small rat and theres no hesitation in his feeding behviour and he does eat. hopefully will be able to collect a poo sample or too in the next few days before saturday morning. i am seriously hoping that the vets will be able to diagnose something about him. |
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heatseeker872591
Hatchling
United Kingdom
355 Posts |
Posted - 14/06/2010 : 17:41:58
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well, took him to the vets on saturday along with a poop sample and got it analyzed, the vet said that he has got some minor parasites in his poo, no worms at all but microscopic single celled parasites, he stomach tube medicined him, and said i should bring him back in a fortnight for another treatment and in the meantime keep a check to see if he is drinking excessively as he may have a kidney infection. and he may even take a blood sample for anylisis next time which i want anyway as i want the best for him. but theres no sign of weightloss or anything in magnum, quite the opposite actually lol
but hopefully all will turn out ok |
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Sta~ple
qeeun speler
United Kingdom
6129 Posts |
Posted - 14/06/2010 : 18:39:10
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| Awww bless him. I really hope he will be ok :( It's nice that your looking after him so well though |
A very special super, duper thanks for K :3 |
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kdlang
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3556 Posts |
Posted - 14/06/2010 : 19:14:12
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| Glad to hear it's nothing serious. Hopefully with your care he will come right. Sounds like a fabulous boy |
4.1.0 corns - Izzy (Carolina) Alice (Amel) Peanut (Butter Motley) Swayze (Ghost) Carmellia (Butter Motley)
0.1.0 cat - Kizzy
1.0.0 Dog - Dobbie
Location - Chesterfield, Derbyshire
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Mouse
Yearling
United Kingdom
958 Posts |
Posted - 14/06/2010 : 19:18:05
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| aaaaw, bless him, I hope it all turns out ok, and I'm glad it looks like smaller parasites rather than the nasty ones. |
1.0.0 - Gobo - Snow Corn (RIP)
0.1.0 - Sprockett - Normal/hypo/het snow Corn
2.0.0 Anery Hatchlings
0.1.0 Amel Hatchling
0.1.0 Normal Hatchling
*Location - Southampton, UK*
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an update on my big grey rat snake
