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i have a creamsicle corn. basically she's been eating regularly. starting reguring and extreme weight loss. looks dehydrated. now she eats regularly (figured out eating too many fuzzies caused her to regirge) so i feed her more often just not as much but never puts weight on. other than that, active and not hiding all the time like out of stress. basically wondering is there a common internal parasite they get and can it be treated with otc meds? also, she escaped a while ago and it seemed to start after that. could she have picked up something in the basement?

I would take it to the vet to be on the safe side, when it was loose it could have ate a wild rodent that had some kind of infection, i had the same prob last year with a young coral snow, she also got out of her cage and was found in the basement. by the time i looked around for help she had passed away. after she passed i talked to my vet and told him the symptoms and he said he thought it was crypto........something, so i had to take all my corns into the vet to be tested as this could spread, it didnt spread to any of my other corns thank god, but i was out $600.00, your best bet is to get her to the vet asap imo.

>>I would take it to the vet to be on the safe side, when it was loose it could have ate a wild rodent that had some kind of infection, i had the same prob last year with a young coral snow, she also got out of her cage and was found in the basement. by the time i looked around for help she had passed away. after she passed i talked to my vet and told him the symptoms and he said he thought it was crypto........something, so i had to take all my corns into the vet to be tested as this could spread, it didnt spread to any of my other corns thank god, but i was out $600.00, your best bet is to get her to the vet asap imo.

this vet may not be your best bet for your reptiles.
how can a vet diagnose crypto from a description that basically went as follows.. snake got out, was found at a later date and then died.
how long was it actually gone and how big was it when it escaped?
did you attempt to feed it after you found it?
It's possible the snake was loose too long and basically starved to death...still alive when you found it but too far gone to survive..
it is very possible that if you found the escapee and tried to feed it, it just didn't have the strength to handle the meal..
it could have eaten a rodent that had ingested poison....
or it could have been dehydration, snake was still alive when found but too far gone to recover.
or it could have been.....
or it could have been.....
so many possibilities but for the vet to jump to the conclusion that it was crypto without a necropsy is, to me, a bit irresponsible.
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