First off thank you to everyone that posted a reply to the listing below. After asperating 8 cc of bile out of the first 3 month old, the vet still thought the best thing to do was euthinize the boa and do a necropsy. The bile did have bateria in it which he said was unusual and the liver was slightly off color, not as red as he thought it should be.

The gallbladder was severly distended, and from he could tell had no duct leading to the small intestine. Other than that everything else seemed unremarkable. He took tissue samples from all the organs and brain and will get a histology report in about two weeks. Also the bile will be cultered to see what's in it.

From what the vet is saying, he has never heard of this in a baby bci. He thinks it was congenital, but there are 3 in a clutch of 24 with this problem. The parents were bought seperately from different breeders in different states. The father was a ghost, and the mother was an albino het anery. Based of the fact that 3 of them appear to have this problem, he said the two should not breed again.

The second boa had 7 ml of bile asperated and I took him home. He looks normal now and I will wait a few days before I try and introduce food again. Depending on what the histology report says, or if he just gets distended again, I will determin whether to put him down too. The vet would like to publish his findings, so if the other boas do not get better, we will document the necropsy with photos, and I will try to share them with the group.

Again, thank you to everyone that responded below. Again here are the pics of what he looked like before the vet.






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Scott

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• Gallbladder aplagia in baby bci - SpectreBCIs, Fri Oct 10 17:16:35 2008
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• RE: Gallbladder aplagia in baby bci - BrownsBoas, Fri Oct 10 17:49:43 2008
• RE: Gallbladder aplagia in baby bci - LarM, Fri Oct 10 17:53:39 2008
• RE: Gallbladder aplagia in baby bci - SpectreBCIs, Fri Oct 10 18:06:43 2008