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Nicaraguan Boa issue

A10Airknight

A10Airknight

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About a month ago, my Nicaraguan boa stopped feeding. I was told that this was not unheard of and to watch her weight. Her weight and activity levels have been fine, but something is off about her latest bowel movement.

While all of Iris's previous waste had been brown, her most recent one has turned up bluish gray with little yellow dots on top of it, which does not appear normal at all. Any ideas?
 
If in doubt, send the fecal example in for internal parasite screening. Many nic's are captive farmed, therefore more likely to carry parasites than captive bred specimens. Is you wee one CB?

I's not unusual for insular boas to go off food more often than common BCI's. I don't know why, but it's a trend I have noticed through the years of keeping dwarf locale boas.
 
Iris was captive bred, she was bought from DKreptiles at a show in February of last year. If she had parasites, I would have thought that it would have turned up by now
 
You would think that eh? One of my male LTC Kofiau Isle tree boas came to me (after spending 4 years in captivity with this previous owner) with little "fatty lumps". After 9 months of not feeding for me I thought on the off chance I'd take him for a check up. I don't usually do this due to having high success with non feeders and I'm far more stubborn than they ever will be, but I thought what the heck. Turns out these fatty lumps were two foot long tape worms living in an external cavity outside his rib cage. Now for an adult snake which is only 10 inches long thats baaaad. Poor wee booger was in a horrific state. Previous owner never thought to treat for internal parasites when he imported them. MORON! So aye moral of the story is, you never know ;) 2 years later he's happy, healthy and feeding frequently. Ah the joys of being passionate about weird snakes eh....
 
Thats a crazy story! Dont worry Tula, I bought the snake, so I am responsible for it. I am definitely having it checked out. I was just curious as to the cost.

$35 isnt nearly as bad as I thought. I work at Knoxville Zoo, and our curator of herpetology said that one of our guys was great with boas and would be happy to check her out but that he would probably charge me for it. I figured it would be around $100 or more.
 
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