longqi
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I am too far away to help much with this
Also cannot think of what it may be
Any ideas?
Very caring owners so I dont think temps etc would have anything to do with this problem
Hi Peter,
How are you? In Aus or overseas? I hope this email reaches you.
My husband, Neville, and I, Kirsi, bought a beautiful carpet python from you at Cairns Night Markets last year. He was then 1.3m, now about 2m long. Max has been doing well until very recently. As he has been growing we have gradually gone from feeding small and then medium size rat every three weeks. He has had good apetite most of the time and there's been no problems with feeding him or with his digestion. He's been shedding his skin regularly and always in one nice piece. He has so far looked very healthy in every way.
Four days ago he got a large size rat which we thought was too big and that he wouldn't eat it. He however did and seemed ok the next 24 hours after feeding. Since then he started moving a lot which is unusual to him soon after a meal. Then 2 days after having the rat Max excreted the big rat as a whole. He had only digested a bit of the head. The enclosure was thorougly cleaned and then Max put back. After that he started behaving very weirdly: moved around the enclosure head up side down opening his mouth and looked like he had some sort of a seizure. Some neurological symptoms? After behaving like that for a few hours he settled down and hasn't moved very much since. But the body of the snake looks fairly bad: swollen at some parts and shrunken at others like the neck. At the swollen bits the skin is also coming off a bit and doesn't look healthy. He also smells sickly. He hasn't been drinking or even gone near the water since excreting the rat.
Would you know what is wrong with him and whether there is anything we could do? So far we have left him rest in peace and made sure he's got clean water near him but haven't touched him at all as haven't been wanting to stress him out even more. I would very much appreciate your reply. We definitely don't want to lose this pet and it's horrible to see him suffering. The vets around here don't know anything about snakes. I'm planning to contact an airport vet, too.
Kind Regards, Kirsi
I have immediately suggested increasing temps 2c
Airport vets are great and have definitely recommended they get in there
But they live a long way out bush and it will be a very long trip
Ive never seen that reaction from eating something too big?
Possibility there was something wrong with the rat??
Any ideas I can forward to them
Also cannot think of what it may be
Any ideas?
Very caring owners so I dont think temps etc would have anything to do with this problem
Hi Peter,
How are you? In Aus or overseas? I hope this email reaches you.
My husband, Neville, and I, Kirsi, bought a beautiful carpet python from you at Cairns Night Markets last year. He was then 1.3m, now about 2m long. Max has been doing well until very recently. As he has been growing we have gradually gone from feeding small and then medium size rat every three weeks. He has had good apetite most of the time and there's been no problems with feeding him or with his digestion. He's been shedding his skin regularly and always in one nice piece. He has so far looked very healthy in every way.
Four days ago he got a large size rat which we thought was too big and that he wouldn't eat it. He however did and seemed ok the next 24 hours after feeding. Since then he started moving a lot which is unusual to him soon after a meal. Then 2 days after having the rat Max excreted the big rat as a whole. He had only digested a bit of the head. The enclosure was thorougly cleaned and then Max put back. After that he started behaving very weirdly: moved around the enclosure head up side down opening his mouth and looked like he had some sort of a seizure. Some neurological symptoms? After behaving like that for a few hours he settled down and hasn't moved very much since. But the body of the snake looks fairly bad: swollen at some parts and shrunken at others like the neck. At the swollen bits the skin is also coming off a bit and doesn't look healthy. He also smells sickly. He hasn't been drinking or even gone near the water since excreting the rat.
Would you know what is wrong with him and whether there is anything we could do? So far we have left him rest in peace and made sure he's got clean water near him but haven't touched him at all as haven't been wanting to stress him out even more. I would very much appreciate your reply. We definitely don't want to lose this pet and it's horrible to see him suffering. The vets around here don't know anything about snakes. I'm planning to contact an airport vet, too.
Kind Regards, Kirsi
I have immediately suggested increasing temps 2c
Airport vets are great and have definitely recommended they get in there
But they live a long way out bush and it will be a very long trip
Ive never seen that reaction from eating something too big?
Possibility there was something wrong with the rat??
Any ideas I can forward to them