Help - Baby trouble

[barbed_wire_dove]

I have a hatchling carpet python (hatched on xmas), all have been eating, pooping, shedding fine.
then just a little while ago, bout an hour now, i checked on them and one of them was on the laying on the floor of its click clack with its mouth open. and at 1st i thought he was dead, but having a closer look hes still breathing.
Hes really stiff, and has only just started moving the front half of his body and the back half is still stiff. Hes been like this almost an hour that i know of.
It looks like poisoning (from what ive seen before), but hes been with the others, and hes the only one effected, and he hasnt eaten in almost a week, so i doubt it was a dud pinky.
Does anyone know whats going on with him? and what should i be doing with him?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[Origamislice]

i don't know what the problem is but what you should do is TAKE HIM TO THE VET

 

[barbed_wire_dove]

I have to head to work, and was wondering if there is anything that would help him stay alive for the next few hours/overnight til i can get him in at the vet.
I know 'take him to the vet' is the 1st thing to do. i was mainly after suggestions for between now and then.

 

[JAS101]

I have a hatchling carpet python (hatched on xmas), all have been eating, pooping, shedding fine.
then just a little while ago, bout an hour now, i checked on them and one of them was on the laying on the floor of its click clack with its mouth open. and at 1st i thought he was dead, but having a closer look hes still breathing.
Hes really stiff, and has only just started moving the front half of his body and the back half is still stiff. Hes been like this almost an hour that i know of.
It looks like poisoning (from what ive seen before), but hes been with the others, and hes the only one effected, and he hasnt eaten in almost a week, so i doubt it was a dud pinky.
Does anyone know whats going on with him? and what should i be doing with him?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!

go and take it to the vet . dont wait for more pepole to respond to your thread . take it to the vet now please.

 

[JAS101]

I have to head to work, and was wondering if there is anything that would help him stay alive for the next few hours/overnight til i can get him in at the vet.
I know 'take him to the vet' is the 1st thing to do. i was mainly after suggestions for between now and then.

id be ringing your boss and asking for a little time off ....... i wouldnt be putting it off .

 

[Splitmore]

I know people obviously have the animals best interest at heart, but vets don't simply have magic wands that they wave over animals and they're happy and healthy again. Truth is most vets have zero experience with reptiles, and especially something that doesn't sound like a run of the mill resp infection.
There are plenty of people on sites like this that would probably be far more useful than simply running to the nearest vet.
That being said, barbed wire, when a snake is in that poor condition as you describe, in my own experience, I would think it's well and truly beyond help. If it won't last another day then I'm sorry to break it to the others but there's nothing a vet can do for it either

 

[JAS101]

I know people obviously have the animals best interest at heart, but vets don't simply have magic wands that they wave over animals and they're happy and healthy again. Truth is most vets have zero experience with reptiles, and especially something that doesn't sound like a run of the mill resp infection.
There are plenty of people on sites like this that would probably be far more useful than simply running to the nearest vet.
That being said, barbed wire, when a snake is in that poor condition as you describe, in my own experience, I would think it's well and truly beyond help. If it won't last another day then I'm sorry to break it to the others but there's nothing a vet can do for it either

but wouldnt it be better to try rather then just letting it die ?. i dont know about u , but i have a very good reptile vet in my area .

 

[Macmilliam]

poor little python

 

[Zoltag]

Get it to a decent reptile vet quick smart. Even if it has died.

Why? Because it has been with the others and until you know what it had, you wont know if it was contagious.

 

[barbed_wire_dove]

I know where you're comming from zoojas, usually if there was an issue, i'd be to the vet straight away without a second thought. but i really cant take more time off, if i dont have this job, me and all of my reptiles wont have a place to live. i just thought someone on here might have an idea, as spitmore said, people on here have experience and i figured may have been able to give me some advice til i could get him to a vet.
I called the vet i usually go to (before i went to work), and he couldnt see it that arvo anyway, but he said keep him cool overnight and bring him in in the morning.
App has been made for when they open, and the little guy has been in my uncles care while i was at work, hes been kept cool, and has almost all movement back, it responding when you touch him now, and looking around, tounge going.
still has a little bit of stiffness in the back 1/3 but hes going well.
Will let everyone know how it goes!
thanks for the help all.

 

[maanz641]

hope the lil guy pulls throu ,makes me sad when they go before thair time

 

[barbed_wire_dove]

hope the lil guy pulls throu ,makes me sad when they go before thair time

thanks!
me too.
it was really odd. he was 1st out of the egg, best eater, most inquisitive. i dunno what happened.

 

[FAY]

uummm kept too hot?

 

[barbed_wire_dove]

i don't know, they've all been on the same temp, at around 26 - 27 degrees.
they are sitting on a heat chord running across the back of all of the little enclosures.
Maybe he spent too long sitting on the floor on the heat??
that could explain why its only him i guess.

 

[Fantazmic]

Hi how is your little one going, after cooling hm down did he seem to recover ? I have read the thread and would really like to know what has happened and whether you worked out what went wrong...hope he is ok

Regards Ekizabethy

 

[spilota_variegata]

Many years ago I acquired some bad pinkies from a person in town. When I fed them to my hatchlings, several regurgitated them back up and several died. They writhed around in pain trying to rid themselves of the tainted food - most who did survived, those who didn't died. It was very upsetting and taught me to alway buy from a trusted source.

Small food items such as pinkies can go off very quickly.

Good luck with your snake.

 

[barbed_wire_dove]

Hey all, sorry for the late update.
little fella is back to normal, fay was right and vet seems to think it was heating related.
Hes been kept off the heat chord since, and hes all good =)
i don't know how he got over-heated when all of the other little guys were fine - i guess he was just sitting on the floor right where the heat chord was running under the click-clack.
thanks for the help everyone!

 

[maanz641]

thats good news awesome

 

[jesskie]

Glad ur 'lil python is alright

 

[shellfisch]

Glad he is ok, that's great