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Old 07-03-2018, 06:05 PM   #7
DennisP
Hi everyone,
I know Sarah hasn't been able to update but I thought I would since I stumbled against the post here.

The full story of these three amber lav's/opals was a complicated one. The first one died somewhat mysteriously after regurging a couple of times. When the second one had some symptoms, we sought Vet help, but she died soon after. We asked for a Necropsy then, but the vet put her in formaldehyde and waited for an opportunity to send to the university "at a reasonable price". When the third started exhibiting symptoms, we begged to get the results of the necropsy for the second, to no avail.

We tried SO hard with the third one, going to (a different) exotic vet constantly, running tests, but sadly we were unable to keep the third alive.

This time we were able to secure a necropsy, done by the local zoo. The result came back: Crypto.

We suspect (but cannot prove) that the three originally had crypto from the breeder we got them from. He had been "getting out of the business" and was selling his stock cheaply. We *suspect* that he found crypto in his breeding operation and instead of facing the financial hit of euthanizing everything, he sold off all his stock, hoping they were not infected.

After we heard about crypto we did a full evaluation of all of our snakes and cleaned everything with ammonia or replaced many tubs and hides. There were two snakes that were showing some symptoms. We quickly quarantined these snakes.

Recently, one of these snakes died (a full adult). The other one is still alive and doing relatively well (smaller meals eaten successfully, only one regurgitate in 6 months or so). No other snake (we have ~~30, corn+ball pythons+boas) has exhibited any symptoms, thank goodness.

And that's about the entire story. I know its been almost a year in coming, but... I at least wanted to write it down here for everyone.

We also just received two beautiful amarettos from Steve so our breeding project can get started again (well, when they grow up anyway)