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Hi everyone. Ok, i need some help here (IVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN A SNAKE)

the eye infection (atleast i think its an infection) occurred after the animal was left unattended in its rack tub for 3 weeks, when it was cleaned again it was found in the corner of it's tub resting on a pile of its own excrement (i assume this is how the eye became infected)

the internal discoloration has me worried as well.(there are no bite marks, no wounds)it appeared after the animal shed and defecated 2 days ago. (the snake has been kept in optimal conditions since the eye infection)

has anyone ever seen anything like this before?
thank you all in advance

I had a male pastel hatch out the season before last with an eye like that. A guy asked if he could have him in a trade (it was my spider for his cinny, at the time the cinny was slightly more expensive) so I said sure and threw him into the trade. I found out he didn't survive.
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If all the beasts were gone,
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Take it to your local Vet Immediately!

Good Antibiotics will Heal that Eye, I am more concerned with the body of that animal???

Good Luck........Go to the Vet NOW

Almost looks like parasites under the skin!

I've seen this several times with babies at work. There is a tiny duct that fluid is supposed to be able to drain from the eye, under the ocular scale and into the mouth of the snake, very slowly, but constantly. More often than not they hatch with the "wonky eye" but sometimes it can come on later too. For whatever reason they hatch with the duct malformed or something happens later and it becomes blocked or closed. I've drained them and they always refill in a day or two. At some stage it begins to change the size of the bone around the eye socket. It seems rare to me that they ever recover from this.

I'm not a vet so take this for what its worth...

I would guess there are tape worm, hook worms or round worms under the skin and since it is an Albino the infected areas are more pronounced to the human eye. I have seen skin blister like that on imports 20 years ago and back then we cut into the pouch pulled out the worms treated them with meds..the eye looks like an infected tear duct but may also be worm related. I would have to guess the cage was dirty for longer than a 3 week period.
Listen I don't know where you live but if you are within driving distance of me and cant take it to the vet immediately get it here and I will do so. Do not let near your collection if you have one.
Good luck.
Travis
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My first thought was a worm infection as well. Not sure how that would happen in a captive collection, unless some fresh imports were just added (and then the albino was ignored for a month or two.
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You might be a ball python fanatic if you subconsciously convert the price of virtually everything in to units of piebald ball pythons

my thought on how worms get into our home collections....
as you said..import and new stuff...but I also always think...you breed mice or rats...wild mice or rats get into the area(usually small mice)...the wild mice walk around the racks and defecate into the cages ,or on the food...bang...you got worm's eggs......my thought----....or even...you want the mice/rats to have a treat...so you go into the yard and get them dandelions or plaintain,English plantain, purslane,clovers, etc etc.....the weeds have the eggs....

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At this stage, it will need a professional in-hand evaluation by a good vet, and a round of meds.

I don't know if the skin and eye are related. Perhaps the eye/mouth infection has gotten so bad that it has gone systemic.

But Neph is right, it is not so much an "eye" infection as a mouth infection that has then traveled and pussed into the eye. Again, it is very late stages, you may lose the eye.

But when you have early puffiness, puss, and swelling in the eye socket, it is often traceable to the mouth ducting being infected or clogged.

Best of luck.
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Did the animal have a stuck shed prior to you taking these pics? I have accidentally bruised albino snakes by hand shedding them without soaking them long enough. Not that severely obviously but, the thought just crossed my mind.

never seen anything like the red stuff....the mouth rot is bad enough...but the red ....wow....my snake like that ? would be quietly put down....(and I'd figure out what I did wrong)..

...my opinion....

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You are just making frozen thawed feeding seem even better. That sucks he or she looks pretty but in lots of pain. NEVER leave a snake alone with a live rat for any more than a minute or two!

Scratch that i misread i thought you said it was left alone in its rat tub not RACK tub sorry...

thats a long time to not have fresh water or to have feces and urates removed. if that has been the norm for this snake, an infection can not be a suprise.