It happened to one of my black bloods. The swelling happened in hours for me, and I don't feed live. Neither I nor the vets ever figured out what it was. She was put on cefotaxime and the swelling eventually went down. That was last year and she's been fine since. The only other thing besides an infection we could think was that she struck the side of the cage. It didn't make sense though because my snake's swelling looked almost exactly like yours.

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• Anyone see this before? EXTREME BIG HEAD - wohlerswi, Mon Sep 7 13:41:45 2009
• OOPS! Picture here! - wohlerswi, Mon Sep 7 13:43:22 2009
• RE: OOPS! Picture here! - BuzzardBall, Mon Sep 7 14:20:55 2009
• RE: Anyone see this before? EXTREME BIG HEAD - zefdin, Mon Sep 7 17:27:10 2009
• RE: Anyone see this before? EXTREME BIG HEAD - anthony james mc, Mon Sep 7 18:12:53 2009
• RE: Anyone see this before? EXTREME BIG - jeffevens, Mon Sep 7 21:58:19 2009
• RE: seen it - apeilia, Tue Sep 8 08:23:43 2009
• Thanks Guys. UPDATE - wohlerswi, Tue Sep 8 11:05:09 2009
• RE: Thanks Guys. UPDATE - toshamc, Tue Sep 8 11:24:16 2009