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im thinking of buying a gravid wild caught ball python that hasnt been treated for internal parasites can that spead to other snakes in different cages? the snake was treated for external and can you treat the snake for internal parasites while they are pregent? will they spead to the babies have them when they are born?here is a pic of my cbb bell line pastel thanks brandon

I am not sure....I would be very careful when purchasing a wild caught BP. You NEVER know!!!

Also, why would someone be selling a gravid female this time of year?...I don't know just a question

Nick

internal parasites WILL NOT spread to ur other snakes on their own. However, they can be passed if feces come in contact with the other snakes. Transfer of this nature can be easily avoided if your careful during husbandry and feeding (ex: don't exchange non-sanitized cage furnishings, or clean said snake's cage and then feed other snakes without proper yada yada ya get teh picture)

I am guilty of grabbing very large wild caughts too, and you ahve to be careful. Everything is great so far(knock on wood). Time will tell if they eradicate everything with some crazy african disease.

Out of curiosity, where do you find W/C BPs? I don't plan on getting any (not that I feel there's anything wrong with doing so), I'm just curious as to where you find/buy them. Maybe if I looked in the classfieds more often I'd know, but I don't.

Thanks!
Mike
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I would advise against it. Adult wild caughts are hard to get to feed and there are a long list of problems with them. My advice is to buy some nice captive breed females and be patient.

You would have to look up which meds your going to use to treat internal parasities to find out specifics.
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Jesse Jeffcoat
Gopher Hill Herps

i find the wild caught gravid ball pythons in the classfieds when just looking around and thanks for the advice i never have had a wild snake and i might just wait for my female to bred to my pastel thanks again brandon

Nice snake. Wait and build your self a nice incubator in the meantime. Then have have half Pastels.
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Jesse Jeffcoat
Gopher Hill Herps
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