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I'm having a weird issue with my male Crawl Cay Boa. I've only had him since September and he's been fine until yesterday.

He hasn't been eating for the past 3 weeks, and I went to try to feed him again tonight, left the mouse in with him a few moments (have only gotten him to eat live lately) and then I noticed he was upside down! I immediately took the mouse out as well as his water dish and put him in my quarantine room. When he's not moving, he looks perfectly normal, but when he goes to move, his head cranes off to one side and he spins it around upside down. His tail waves around in the air like he's trying to grab something. His tongue doesn't seem to be working well, sometimes it flicks out, other times it just sits out. He doesn't seem aware of much when that happens. He has not been regurgitating, has been shedding fine, no weight loss, and when placed on his back, he rights himself immediately. There are no pest strips in my room, or other chemicals-and all the other babies on the same rack as this one are fine. He made it through last night, but still does the twisting thing with his head. I last tried to feed him about 3 days ago, and he killed his mouse, but didn't eat it.

Unfortunately I can't make it to my vet today-we got 10 inches of snow dumped on us last night and they closed the roads.

Every other snake I own seems to be ok so far. This really sucks, as he's one of my more expensive snakes. His sibling, a female, is twice as large as he is, and seems to be fine.

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This is probably very bad... Neurological symptoms are always bad news. If I were you I'd pray your other snakes didn't catch it.
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
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You quarantined him right? I think meretseger and I are both suspicious of ICB (inclusion body disease) an infectious disease of boas. He needs to be kept away from everyone else and taken to a vet for bloodwork (Chem profile and CBC).
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Stacey

>>You quarantined him right? I think meretseger and I are both suspicious of ICB (inclusion body disease) an infectious disease of boas. He needs to be kept away from everyone else and taken to a vet for bloodwork (Chem profile and CBC).
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>>Stacey

He has always been kept in his own bin, but was in a melamine rack next to a female Bci, with pythons above him. He was never close to any other snake or shared anything with any other snake.

He was removed as soon as he started acting weird, and placed in a quarantine room. Hopefully the vet is open tomorrow so I can take him in ASAP.

-cat
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Good luck and take care.
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Stacey