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Its only about a year old..

Lately its been turning down food..

He's also having these "spasm attacks" where he twists and turns and moves all crazy like he's posessed swirling while standing up, banging his head against the glass and into the sand, getting it into his mouth..

I finally fed him a pinkey and he spit it back out 2 days later

What should i do

Sounds like it could be a poisoning of some sort? What do you clean the cage with and what type of substrate do you use?
Tom Stevens

You should listen to the advice you're receiving here, but I'd also get him to a vet as soon as possible.

Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

know and be able to fix it.

Or you can guess forth and back on here and may or may not get it right. All the while your snake is getting worse. Its your choice.

It could be mites, that makes them go all spastic. Or flagelletes, that makes them bite the ground(pain from their organs deteriorating) Or it could be none of these.

It could be something else all together. Thats why they have vets.

Seriously, I do understand that vets can be so expensive that it prohibits getting your snakes treated. But thats a decision you have to make. But it really is the only real option.

Consider, If you have to ask whats wrong, then how would you know how to treat it? see what I mean? Good luck

From your brief description it does not sound good at all. If you want try to save the animal bring it to a vet ASAP.

Good luck!! ~ Mike

What kind of snake is it. It is not good to keep snakes on sand. They can ingest sand way to easy. I don't understand why people put snakes on sand. Anyway, I had a boa that twisted and turned and thrashed around and regurged about 14 years ago. I took it to the vet several times, and it soon died. They did an ectopsy, and it was liver disease. Come to find out, the whole litter had it. I'm not sure what ingesting something other than food makes a snake do, but he said the snake thrashes about banging his head against the glass and in the sand. Get it to the VET. Derek

I had a cal king do that many years ago. It happened after I got a new heat lamp. Took me about 3 days to figure it out but I finally put a thermometer in there and during the hot part of the day it was over 100 degrees with nowhere for him to escape the heat.