Hey everyone,
Turns out, my corn has some sort of bacterial infection in her gut and it's producing alot of gas (she doesn't seem to fart or burp though, and I know snakes fart). That was probably the reason for the soft lump that came and went. She's close to 2 ft long, and she only weighs a mere 63 grams
!! but she didn't look THAT thin. I was really shocked to hear how light she was, she's probably half full of gas all the time. The bacteria seems to like cooler temps (or atleast produces more gas when the temp is cooler).
So my question is, has anyone ever come across this gas-bacteria? How would I get rid of it, since flagyl only seemed to sorta work (well it's also because I didn't get a full dose into her, will dose her again next week with a dosing needle). Because my vet is pretty clueless on what else to do, other than to send the culture to another lab or something. Also spiking the water with GSE didn't do much (seemed only to make her sicker and more reluctant to eat).
Also, would it be okay to dose flagyl once a week? or would that be overdosing? If the flagyl sorta worked, I wanna pound the bacteria really hard with the drug.
Is Pennicillin poisonous to snakes? Would it work against this kind of bacteria? (I guess I should've asked my vet, she coulda bombed the culture with pencillin).
-13mur 6