First off, I would be very concerned about the symptoms you are describing. Do you have a reptile vet in the area? I would try to get the sick ones to a vet asap (even if you have to drive a few hours, it is worth it to not lose your entire collection). If you house your BP's together, I would separate them immediately. Put the sick ones in another room of the house even - if possible. Keep them away from your boas too! Since you have had two come down sick, I would treat everything as if they were highly contagious - wash your hands between every snake and anything you use on the snakes (you should always do this anyways - but you probably know that)
. Are they experiencing any other symptoms besides loss of motor control?
Some diseases/parasites can take a while to show up (I had a girl for months before she showed any symptoms of a protozoan infection - just died on Sunday). I am in the process of having all of my snakes screened for IBD and some other bad bugs just to be completely safe - regardless of what big breeders I got them from.
Also, cleaning every week isn't going to keep you from having mites. I am a neat freek with my cages and thoroughly clean every week and still ended up with them a few weeks ago. They were impossible for me to see on the snakes or in the enclosures, but once they gorged themselves enough and drowned in the water bowls, I was able to see them.
Keep us updated on how everything turns out!!! I feel the same way about high end morphs. I want them, but want to make sure I can handle the lower end ones before I jump in over my head.
>>hi, i bought 0.4 ball pythons awhile back from a reliable breeder. they are eating every 4-6 days and were doing fine. THe humidity was perfect and every shed was perfectly in one piece. Then one day i realized that one of them looks lifeless. He couldnt control his body. So i took him out of the cage and cleaned the cage again. I had been cleaning the cage everyday and changing the water every other day. I even changed the substrate, which was coconut bark and i changed it to reptibark..then a week or two later another one became sick. I took him out and changed everything again. I didnt have mites because i cleaned the cage so often. I have no idea what is wrong with them. The two that are sick are still alive and i have two healthy ones that just ate yesterday. Im not sure what im doing wrong but any help is appreciated. I am insterested in buying a piebald, but if i cant keep some normals alive, i dont want to invest in something really expensive.
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>>PS i have boa constrictors and never ever did any of them get sick. I know that the living conditions for boas and pythons are different in the humidity level..any help is greatly appreciated..
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>>0.4 normal ball pythons
>>0.1 normal Redtail boa
>>1.0 Hypo Redtail boa
>>1.0 true Redtail boa
>>1.1 100% Het Albino Redtail boa
>>1 baby sulcata tortoise
>>0.0.1 Baby Bearded Dragon
>>0.0.1 Baby Red Uromastyx
>>0.1 GF Eryn (WC)
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Amber
Boas
1.1.0 Colombian (Austin & Ava)
1.0.0 Suriname (Aloysius)
1.1.0 Albino (Bo & Daisy)
Balls:
1.27.0 Normal (Tucker, Taylor,and lil' girls - RIP Eva)
1.1.0 Pastel
1.2.0 100% Het Pied
1.0.0 100% Het Albino (Bubba)
0.1.0 66% Poss. Het Albino
Corns:
1.1.0 Amber
1.1.0 Butter Motley
1.1.0 Crimson
1.1.0 Ghost
1.1.0 Hypo
0.0.1 Normal
1.1.0 Okeetee
1.0.1 Snow (Aiden)
1.1.0 Sunglow Motley
Milks:
1.1.0 Hypo Honduran (Damien & Lucy)
0.1.0 Pueblan (Marishka)
1.1.0 Sinaloan
Other:
2.1.0 Dachshunds - Dakota, Montana, & Cheyenne
2.0.0 Ferrets - Bailey & Keyta