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Seizures????

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divapixie

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OK... my lavendar male Orion has been diong fairly well since I got him in april... but... he had a respiratory infection this past week so we quarantined him and placed him in a warm and dry sterlite container for a while. Today he shed and is no longer sneezing, dripping or breathing out of his mouth... however... he is REALLY UBER twitchy... to the point of my thinking he might be having mini seizures... its weird. I would normally just think he smells the females in the other room but this is WAY twitchier than that. anyone ever seen snake seizures? Can they even have them? He seems perfectly fine otherwise... but it just really is strange. Anyone that can offer any insight?
 
I've heard of snakes having seizures from bedding- but yours is in a plain sterlite. My male tri color hog is super twitchy. I read here that that's a sort of greeting between male/female getting-ready-to-mate snakes. Does he only do it when you touch him?

Nanci
 
He started doing it rubbing up against the sides of the sterlite this morning and i thought he was just twitchy but then he did it again when I was handling him. He stopped for a bit but then started again and continued the heavy twitching once I placed him back in the sterlite. i want to leave him in there a couple more days just to ensure he is over the respiratory infection but it is kind of creeping me out.
 
Did someone else used to live in the Sterlite that he could be smelling? Has the room he's in been exposed to pesticides?

Nanci
 
Nope... fresh new container not expose to anything... just punched the air holes in it before putting him in it last week. Its really weird.
 
He had been rather "randy" previously because he can sense the other females around the house... could it be that even across rooms he's smelling them?
 
I also have a lavender (ironically named Twitchy) who has been having this same problem. I did a little research, and one of the main causes of this is low blood calcium. It can cause them to have "tetanic seizures", which basically involve really strong muscle spasms. Apparently the calcium imbalance can be fatal if it gets bad enough. :(

I bought some Repto-Cal calcium powder, which I'm going to use to spike his mice from now on. I'll let you know if it helps...
 
Orion seems to have recovered. He no longer twitches and is acting in all respects normal again. He's actually quite active... all the time.
 
divapixie said:
OK... my lavendar male Orion has been diong fairly well since I got him in april... but... he had a respiratory infection this past week so we quarantined him and placed him in a warm and dry sterlite container for a while. Today he shed and is no longer sneezing, dripping or breathing out of his mouth... however... he is REALLY UBER twitchy... to the point of my thinking he might be having mini seizures... its weird. I would normally just think he smells the females in the other room but this is WAY twitchier than that. anyone ever seen snake seizures? Can they even have them? He seems perfectly fine otherwise... but it just really is strange. Anyone that can offer any insight?
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If you're talking about the lavender that you got from me, then the twitching would just be him being a horny toad. That is by far the horniest snake I've ever seen, without question. If I had even picked up a female and then took him out---he did the jerky dance and tried to evert himself.

I wouldn't be overly concerned about it. Probably just smells females out and about and wants to breed.

How's everything else doing?
 
Joejr... I know! He's such a little "I'm a stud!" snake. Kirk made the same mistake of taking him out that same time I had a female out and got... well... messy. And the funniest part is that he's like half the size of my breeder females at the moment... so him trying to get it on with them is just a funny thought. They'd laugh at him! Tee hee...
Actually, they are doing quite well. I'm positive the okeetee will be breeding size by next spring... she's ALL muscle. The Amel needs to tone up... she's gaining some weight but seems like a weak one. She doesn't hang on very well. She's also REALLY twitchy about being handled but we are working with her. As for the Lavendar, he's like a dog... aside from trying to hump everything, he also wants attention... ALL the time. He is continually at the door crawling around saying "Look at me! Take me out!"
Funny snakes!
 
So you've established it wasn't due to calcium deficiency but a horny little fella? Awwwe. :laugh: Glad to hear it wasn't seizures.
 
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