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The yellow I recently acquired came with a RI, we are currently treating him with Baytril 5mg/kg dose; does the dosage sound correct with anyone who has delt with RI treatment before?

We have him on 5 injections, over 5 days. I am working with a vet on this, but even though he is a great dog, cat and small animal vet he is not experienced with exotic medicine. When you live in Naples, Italy you cannot be picky about treatments, it took some time to find a vet that would treat him.

Any advice is appreciated.

John

If you haven't seen these pages, they have much information on respiratory infection, and treatment.

www.anapsid.org/resources/rxdose.html

www.anapsid.org/rti.html
More links at the bottom of both pages.

My treatment for RI has included moderately elevated temperature, day and night.
I hope you can cure it. Good luck.
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Wow, its pretty hard to give an anaconda RI since they thrive in lower temperatures and higher humidity than most other boids. That guy musta been practically frozen! Any idea how it caught it?

No idea how he caught it. Soon after I picked him up he was making a clicking noise which I hoped was stress, but realized it was a RI.
In Italy, at least Naples, the heating system in the houses is not adequate for warming a reptile room. I cannot say how he was kept before me but he does have good body mass at 2.4 lbs. I currently have him set up with heating pads under the water container and an Enjoy radiant panel. The cage stays bewteen 85-90 on the hot side, closer to 80 on the cool side.

He is responding well to the Baytril. His nostrils have unblocked, he is more active in the day, and yesterday after the shot he took a bite at me. He gets one more shot today and will try feeding tomorrow, hopefully he will not need a second round of medicine.

Thanks for all the responses.

John

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Sounds like he's coming around well. A nippy anaconda is a happy anaconda .

Yeah i dont mean this as a slight against anyone but an anaconda breeder once told me this and i live by it today."If you have an anaconda and it gets sick and dies when you didnt want it to.You probably never should have ever gotten into snakes in the first place".Like i said no offense just thought id share that.And BTW good luck i hope your anaconda pulls through.

That would only apply if the illness was because of poor husbandry. Snakes (like people) get illnesses for no reason too. Id love to hear that breeder say that he's never had a snake take ill.