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Albino 6 Year Old Striped Butter Acting Weird

SerpentLady4

SerpentLady4

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This is an SOS I can't figure out what is wrong with Texas Jack. He ate for me last week (one large jumbo mouse) but not this week. You can feel his spine and when he is being held he just goes limp and he won't even pull his body into his hide. My exotic couldn't find anything wrong except that he was dehydrated. I don't know if he has gone into shed. I checked his mouth no sign of mucous except that his color inside was not pink it looked blue. I have been giving physical therapy 3x a day (swimming in warm water and lot of handling)


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more info please -

1). Your snake is 6 yrs old, have you had it the entire time or did you just recently acquire it?

2). You don't know if he's gone into shed? (I guess that answers my above question, obviously if you've owned the snake for 6 years you'd know something about shedding, but we'd still like to know).

3). Physical therapy 3 times a day, swimming and lots of handling? Why, if the vet found nothing wrong? Perhaps you are just wearing the poor snake out or stressing him out.

Snakes can go months without eating. The fact that he skipped a weekly meal really doesn't cause a need for an "SOS" Perhaps you should just leave him alone for a week or so and then try to feed again and see if he eats.
 
He is very thin and the inside of his mouth is blue he acts like he has no strength or muscle mass when being handled (goes completely limp) and he won't even pull himself into his hide box. He has bumps on the side of his body and his spine can be felt. With his color being yellow it is difficult to tell when he is in a shed mode. A breeder in Indiana told me to have him swim


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alrighty then, you've obviously already received expert advice from the breeder, so there's nothing I can do for you.

Perhaps you could post a picture of him just so the "Experts" at this forum could see him too?
 
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It started this year the exotic vet couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. He ate last month but not this month it is like he is giving up. Two pictures are him in his prime and the last is him now


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What is your setup? Has anything in the viv changed? What are temps? Also, can you elaborate on these ""bumps?"

If he seems very weak, I would probably be a little more conservative about handling him, and not necessarily have him swim 3 times a day. That itself could be pretty stressful for him.
 
My setup is a 30 gallon viv the temperature is 82.5 (the temperature is what Don ofSMR) told me to put it at for day and night.) There has been no change in the viv. I don't what those bumps are it is what I felt on him. I was told by someone who breeds corns in Indiana to have him swim to get his muscle back


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I hope he recovers. If he's giving up, maybe he just knows what he has to do. All you can do is do your best and take him back to the vet something more definitive changes or if he seems to be in pain or distress. I'd doesn't sound good but as a lay person I just don't know. Best wishes. He's a stunning snake.
 
Ty I call it Mariah's curse -Mariah was a fluorescent banded albino female who was exactly like TJ she didn't make past a year and whatever albino corn came after her or lasted longer than her was cursed


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SerpentLady4 said:
This is an SOS I can't figure out what is wrong with Texas Jack. He ate for me last week (one large jumbo mouse) but not this week..........


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SerpentLady4 said:
....the exotic vet couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. He ate last month but not this month .......


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A Week, a month, what's the diff, right?

I think if it was my snake, I'd let him be and leave him alone for a week or so and then try to feed again.

Do you have any idea what the snake weighs? Does anyone else have access to the snake other than you?
 
I am the only one a breeder told me to exercise him to get him stronger as for weight no I don't know


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Hi Jennifer. Sorry you and your snake are going through this :(
Did the Vet check for internal parasites ?
Did the Vet test for liver or kidney failure ?
 
Did the other cursed snake(s) also die similarly? Did they by chance all use the same cage, carpet, or hides at any given point?
 
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any other reptile Vets you can go to?



It seems parasitic or kidney related based on his looks, limpness and the first vet stating dehydration.
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Ness Exotic Center is the only reptile vet available the reptile vet said with him being inside he couldn't find any parasites and that his kidney and liver numbers were fine.


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Did the other cursed snake(s) also die similarly? Did they by chance all use the same cage, carpet, or hides at any given point?
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It was only the albinos Mariah would eat one week and skip eating another week or so, the salmon snow hatchling was eating fine (first one) and then two weeks later he was dead in his cage and the second salmon snow refused to eat and I gave him up


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