I don't think it's crypto. The swelling comes and goes and it's soft and it's right smack in the middle of his body (crypto gives a firm swelling in the stomach due to stomach inflamation). The snake is fairly active (makes bumping his hide around at night and making a ruckus as a hobby), and eats well, and doesn't regurge unless I've done something wrong (feed to much, too cold, etc). If it was crypto, the snake probably would've died by now, since he was at a near unrecoverable point not too long ago (was 28 inches long and only weighing 50 grams, now he weighs closer to 80). Plus I've seen these things with my own eyes, and I know what crypto cysts look like.
I've also heard coccidia can be spread from mice and water as well. I had to feed live occasionally to get him to eat, and those were with petstore bought mice (which may have been exposed to lizard or snake feces who had coccidia. Also they had beardies, which natually have a light coccidia load anyway). Or, the snake could've had the coccidia all along, and it didn't get bad till a while later (got this snake from a petstore, I just had to get him out of the hell hole they put him in, he was caged with a friggin cali king about twice his size!). Coccidia is also very resistant to freezing, so could've been the feeder mice I've been buying. Also, deer mice and white foots seem to carry coccidia naturally, maybe my male white foot is the cause of the infection. Well, anyway, the point is, there's a million places where this thing could've come from (there's coccidia cysts on the ground outside, everytime you step into your house from outside you could possibly be bringing in tons of cysts, as well as bacteria, etc, etc, but actual infection is rare I guess)
I don't trust just any vet anymore unless I meet them in person and see how they operate (I absolutely HATE vets who hide behind their techs and never show their face). If I've never seen that vet before, I'll assume he/she was as bad as the last three or four I've seen.
Yeah, I'm one paranoid mofo, but one fairly capable paranoid mofo once he has a hold of some info. Well NEways, we'll see how this resolves.
-13mur 6