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right this week has been crazy for me first mites then my girlfriend having a baby so i come home to check my animals and carry on my mite treatments when i look over one of my burms and his right eye is sunken into his head it has no discolouration he is acting fine i dont know if this is mite related scepticemia or what any suggestions guys now really is not the time for meto juggle snakes and a baby boy i only came home to feed them and treat them

sunken eyes can be caused by dehydration which in turn is caused from the little blood suckers. soak your snake for several hours in enough water that it is submerged but not having to swim to keep its head out of the water. while you are doing this, clean it's cage with bleach and water and treat with PAM or equate lice bedding spray (it has the same active ingredient as PAM) until you can get some PAM. Some say that spending the extra bucks for PAM is useless but for my peace of mind knowing it has been tested with reptiles is well worth the few extra dollars.

Of course it can be caused by something else so I would get the snake to a vet ASAP just to make sure.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.0 spider
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
0.6 50% poss het pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of normal female breeders
a bunch of normal female holdbacks and several rescued normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns

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