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Hey All, Here are some pics of the thayeri female i was talking about in the previous post

Answers For Zach, i noticed these bumps after a shed and few months back. since then too, some of the bumps have gone down in size to completely disapeared.

The vet was very certain that all she was seeing was a fatty fluid

The scales on the snake look perfectly normal.

I also got her and anti bacterial/ anti fungal, suspention for her and administered it orally every day for 3 weeks

thanks
Adam


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Yep, as i originally thought that's just fatty deposits..

I would hold off on feeding this girl anything but adult mice and the bumps may reduce a bit, but it will not go away completely.. Good news is it should not effect future breeding in any way!

Nice looking Thayeri by the way!! Good Luck!

~ Mike Russo

That's just a awesome pic Mike ahhhh kids are great and the "fear of snakes" is such a learned behaviour, my son loves them but his cousins hate them... hmmm I love them and his aunts don't lol
take care
Chris Flowers
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Sounds like a fatty tumor to me. Nothing you can do about it, although it shouldn't effect her. Lipomas (fatty tumors) aren't dangerous unless they physically get in the way of something. Just keep an eye on it and make sure it never begins to cause constipation or anything like that.

Do you know how old this snake is?

And the other posters are right, if she losses weight the tumors may shrink slightly, although they wont go away.

Hey Zach, yeah this little girl is an 05, you were actually at the store that day I recieved them, I got the larger yellow leonis, and smaller orange leonis and the smaller one is the one i am refering to.

i dont know if you remember but you have held this snake.

as soon and i put her on smaller offerings of food though i did see a shrinking in the bumps on her side

Adam
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Yeah, I thought that was the same snake. She was a screamer then and still is.

Its interesting to see these bumps in such a young snake.

Also, I think its interesting that this problem seems to be most prevalent in species that eat lizards in the wild yet we convert them to mice in captivity...hmmmm.

Zach those were my thoughts exactly on the whole lizard to mice diet, its gotta be a reason. i wonder if i give her almost two weeks between feedings and see what happens, either way she is still the same snake she has always been, just alittle junk in the trunk
Adam
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In the 90's I had two different bloodlines of thayeri. Both were very prone to getting "fat bumps", as we called them. Usually these were just above the vent but I have seen extreme examples where they occur all over the lower body. I have seen this a few times in alterna as well. It was much more pronounced and common in females as best I can recall. If you watch for them to appear and adjust their food intake you can halt their progress but I have never seen them go away.

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