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My male ball passed a yellow urate today and with it something bright yellow and stringy...I have no idea what parasites look like and was hoping maybe someone could tell me what they think it is...Hoping it's not a parasite

Need a pic.Then we can be sure.
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1.0 albino Speckled king
0.1 speckled king
0.1 desert cali king
1.1 ball python
65 common rats
25 african soft hair rats
49 mice
7 degus
2.2.10 girbils
1.0 blue and gold macaw
1.1 orange wing amazons
0.1 tin african grey
1.0 sugar glider
.1 beagle
1.0 pink toe tarantula
1.1 borneo bloods (comming soon)
0.1 hell spouse
3.2 children (kids)
myspace.com/midknight_fantasy

ahh I don't have one, didn't take one...Know any websites that have pictures of the parasites?

You could try googlin' it under images.I cant say for certain if it is anything.
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1.0 albino Speckled king
0.1 speckled king
0.1 desert cali king
1.1 ball python
65 common rats
25 african soft hair rats
49 mice
7 degus
2.2.10 girbils
1.0 blue and gold macaw
1.1 orange wing amazons
0.1 tin african grey
1.0 sugar glider
.1 beagle
1.0 pink toe tarantula
1.1 borneo bloods (comming soon)
0.1 hell spouse
3.2 children (kids)
myspace.com/midknight_fantasy

Could be a sperm plug i think someone on here has a pic of one.
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B Sleeper

1.0 Chocolate Lab
0.1 ?? Normal Ball python (yet different)
1.0 04 Het Albino
1.1 06 Het Albino
1.0 06 Het Pied
1.0 06 Pastel(Screamer)
1.0 07 Pastel
0.? 07 Pos Het Albino (Momma has not laid the eggs yet)

It may have just been a hank of hair.. Best way to tell is to bring a stool sample (a fresh one.. less than 12 hours) to your local vet to take a peek at under a microscope. If you don't have a herp vet around, your average small animal vet should at least have a book to compare images to. & it's usually pretty cheap to run a fecal (at least around these parts). As a general rule, anything parasitic that you can actually *see* in a snake's stool will look like spaghetti or rice. Anything else will be microscopic. Good luck!

-Tami*

Sounds like regular urates (which can be yellowish sometimes) and sperm plugs.

But that's just me. Google "ball python sperm plugs"...there's gotta be a least a few pics up there.

~jenny
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