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Bolitochrome
at Fri Sep 21 16:21:10 2012 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bolitochrome ]
Can't offer too many options of what it could be if you don't have more information to give, sorry. IBD just suddenly popping up in one snake after 2 months of quarantine seems unlikely though. Mites could be the vector of the disease, but since you said it came WITH the mites (though you do not remember what treatment you used?) it is unlikely it would have just suddenly developed the disease.
There are a variety of compounding factors that could have caused an illness. Treatment by the prior owner including food items, handling, caging, cleaning, and other maintenance; method of shipping/transport to you; specifics of how you treated the stuck shed and mites. There might not be a single cause for the illness. Which is why I asked for details.
More likely causes are impaction, chemical exposure, trauma it received prior to you getting it, internal parasites, possibly even cancer, or any number of things. These should be ruled out before dooming your collection to IBD. Even with great quarantine, IBD is transferred VERY readily to other BPs, as your research has probably shown you.
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26 year old 0.1 from Lincoln, NE
Ball Pythons - 0.1 Silver Bullet, 0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma, 0.1 Yellowbelly, 2.1 Normals
Kingsnakes - 1.0 L. m. thayeri, 0.1 L. m. thayeri X L. alterna, 1.0 L. g. californiae
Other - 0.1 Whitesided P. catenifer sayi, 1.0 H. nascicus, ?.? Chrysemys picta, 1.0 husband, ?.? Mini-human
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RE: Environmental conditions - Bolitochrome, Fri Sep 21 16:21:10 2012