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Hoppy
at Thu Feb 17 07:03:00 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Hoppy ]
Your snake has either a prolapsed Rectum or Hemipenis, not really sure with out seeing the snake to tell you which one it is. It is a VET trip requirement or the tissue will die get infected and kill the snake.
Sometime the prolapse can be returned and sometimes it has to be amputated depending on what it is and how big it is. The most common cause of prolapse is a bacterial infection but here are a few other causes as well,
Rectal prolapse can be caused by too much and too frequent feedings, deydration that causes constipation and too small of a cage that will also cause constipation.
Hemipenis prolapse can be caused by breeding activity (a female giving a male a strong squeeze at the wrong time), nerological disorder (the snake does not have the full control over the needed muscels) and of course an infection of some sort.
Either way a vet trip is a must to save your snake, and feeding and breeding activity needs to be stop. Breeding activity for this snake is over for at least a year and the next six months the feeding activity will have to be kept to a very small meal every 2 weeks with the meals slowly gettting larger in the last two months to asure that the prolapse repair is going to hold.
Good luck
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com
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Prolapse, must go to vet ASAP!!! - Hoppy, Thu Feb 17 07:03:00 2005