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She is now resting in her tub and this "blockage thingy" is going to the vet for analysis.

YES!!!!!

It is out.

Here she is after helping her pass the thing.

And here is what was causing all the trouble.

Do not know what it is, but I am happy to here that she is good.Great job. Did you have to assist it out?

I did not see the post below.. I am even happier that it is out.Sorry you had to go through that with the vets. They should not charge you when they do not know what to do.. But at least it is out..

IT LOOKS LIKE A URATE STONE . I HAD THE SAME THING HAPPEN WITH AN 06 HATCHLING . I THOUGHT THE SNAKE WAS GOING TO BLOW AT SOME POINT . GREAT TO SEE IT IS FINALLY OUT.....NICE SNAKE TOO .
RICH-OSC

>>She is now resting in her tub and this "blockage thingy" is going to the vet for analysis.
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>>Here she is after helping her pass the thing.
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>>And here is what was causing all the trouble.
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Please let me know what it is when you get the lab work back. I posted on here about a month or two ago about the exact same thing. My snake passed about 5 of those. I honestly thought it might have been an underdeveloped folicle, but your snake looks to young for that. I'm really eager to hear what it is. My girl has been fine ever since and she wasn't having any problems up to the point when she passed them either. We just found a pile. It's definitely the same looking blob.
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Amber

np
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Kyle
www.royalvariations.com

"be safe, be happy and dont let anyone make you afraid" David Coverdale

Very odd. I thought it was a hardened yolk but this looks nothing like what I was expecting to see.
I'll let you know what the lab tells me.

>>Very odd. I thought it was a hardened yolk but this looks nothing like what I was expecting to see.
>>I'll let you know what the lab tells me.

I actually got the old disection kit out and "operated" on one of the ones my snake passed. It was the same consistency throughout. Very odd. I did go back and read your other post and saw the pictures of the "lump". I'll be really interested to see what the vet has to say.
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Amber

I hope she does well for you. Most hard bellies have died on me after I got the stuff out. I hope this is not the case for you.
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Thanks and Take Care
Thomas Jones

Well, my pancakes just lost a little of their appeal. Yuck.

Good job on getting it out though. I hope she does ok now.
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That's great news - did it come out on it's own or did you work it out? I do hope she pulls through - keep us posted!!! Congrats!!
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Tosha
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Damn that looks painful, thanks god it passed threw. wat did u do to get it to pass !
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There is only 2 things u got in this world, Your Word & Your Balls !

After going to a few vets and getting nowhere, I contacted Davey Fig since he was successful in removing a hardened yolk on a few baby boas in the past and they survived the ordeal and lived.

She was swabbed with betadine and the blockage was injected with 1cc of saline in between the belly scales and then soaked for 1/2 an hour in warm water containing one dissolved tablet of maracyn every day for 5 days.

1/2cc of mineral oil was tubed daily in the morning and 1cc of pedialyte was tubed daily at night for the 5 days.

Every other day, she got a saline enema to release the gas build up behind the blockage.

After the 5 days of treatment, I slowly started to work the blockage down the intestinal tract and finally out the cloaca. This took about 2 hours of gentle working to get it out(she NEVER bit or hissed and was a perfect little patient LOL.)

After it was out, I tubed 1/2cc of pedialyte and placed her back in her tub.

Today I tubed 1cc of pedialyte again to restore any lost electrolytes from the ordeal and to get some additional fluids in her.

Now to find out just what this thing was. It does not look like a hardened yolk but the saline injections may have changed it's appearence somehow from what I expected to see.

That is impressive! nicely done.
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Kyle
www.royalvariations.com

"be safe, be happy and dont let anyone make you afraid" David Coverdale