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pinelandsghost
at Fri Mar 20 01:26:34 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by pinelandsghost ]
What you've discribed sounds exactly what I just went through with my collection. Mucus discharge, weezing, open mouth breathing and a rapid decline in health. Antibiotics administered oraly brought my snakes back but a fecal exam confirmed the cause, parasites! Spicifically, lungworms.
Roger Klingenberg's book Understanding Reptile Parasites states that these are all symtoms of lungworms.(bean farm sells it and its really worth reading!)
I've been dosing all my snakes with panacur as recomended by my vet and have probably saved more than a few snakes. How'd it happen? Don't know, all I have is captive bred and kept separate. I'm anal about cleanliness and feed frozen thawed.
Go figure.
It may be a smart move to get a fecal exam done to see if its the cause. You don't want it to get to far.
Good luck with it.
Mike.
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