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Lump near tail

csheath

csheath

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Hi, I've recently adopted an 8 year old male corn and he has a strange soft fatty lump near his tail. Is this overfeeding and is there anything i can do to remedy this.

Other than this he seems perfectly healthy with regards to eating shedding etc

Hope someone can help!

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Has he pooped recently? That's a pretty big lump and hopefully he's not constipated. My female has "hips" fatty deposits right by her vent as well. There's nothing you can do except not overfeed more. Not sure if that's what this is or not though. Someone else should be able to chime in soon.

~Katie
 
Phoo-haa they're some big-child-bearing-hips on your boy snake!!!

I bought a 3 year old female at the beginning of this year who had 'hips' due to overfeeding by a previous owner to get her up to weight for breeding. Other than the 'hips' she was in excellent condition. Just like with any other animal, it's not good for them to go on a weight loss diet before you breed them so I forgot about it and figured I'll diet them off her later on....well, she did it for me...after the first clutch they had halved in size and after her double clutch they're pretty much gone. If anything, she just has slightly looser skin around there...then again she had dropped about 60% of her original body weight!

If it's not constipation and you want to get those hips off him, cut his meals back so he gets only one mouse every 2 weeks and once the digestion process has finished, exercise him as often as you can. Let him climb all over the place and whenever you have friends come and visit, let them have the novelty of playing with him...hehehe, that's my trick...my friends actually think I'm letting them play with my snakes for their benefit...they don't realise that they're helping me exercise my animals!!!
 
Some corns develop hips like that. I believe Serpwidgets has one with them. It's not from over feeding. We had a long thread about it a while back. Some thought it may be genetic, that's my bet. It doesn't seem to be a problem.
 
Thanks for the replys guys, I've started to feed him once a fortnight now, I'll continue that for a while and if I don't get any results I''l leave him be, it doesn't bother him so if it goes then great if not, no worries, my girlfriend can just continue to mock his fat a** (hope he doesn't get a complex)!!
 
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