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jimmer7
Sub Adult

United Kingdom
661 Posts

Posted - 16/07/2013 :  15:16:55  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
High im gutted bought a new male firefly couple of weeks back, and now its got a bad r.i , been nebulizering it now daily got to go vets and get more anti-biotics tomorrow. 16 week course.

Winston Pinstripe
Pepsi Lesser Yb
Ronnie Sulfur Mojave
Sponge bob Firefly
Dr marshmallow brazilan black terranchala
Skellator costa Rican zebra T
Plus4 hissing cockroaches.
Reggie CA dwarf boa het blood
Willow Hognose

Baobab
Fully Grown Royal

United Kingdom
1393 Posts

Posted - 16/07/2013 :  15:58:21  Show Profile  Send Baobab an AOL message  Reply with Quote
Not good. Hope he gets better soon.


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Coastal*diamond carpet python 0.0.1- Pippin.........Brazilian Rainbow Boa 0.0.1 - Badger..........Granite Burmese 0.1 - Sally
Reticulated python 2.2 - Saru (purple albino), Cheesy (Sunfire albino white), Titan (Platinum Titanium) & Gala (Sunfiretiger het albino)......Rat snake 1.0 Remmy.
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RoyalBram
Hatchling

United Kingdom
83 Posts

Posted - 16/07/2013 :  17:11:23  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Oh man... Sorry to hear this.

Hope he gets better soon.
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rustyp1974
Sub Adult

France
554 Posts

Posted - 16/07/2013 :  20:41:10  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Oh boy that sucks. Good luck with his treatment.


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Lotabob
Royal Python Moderator

United Kingdom
5008 Posts

Posted - 17/07/2013 :  15:32:23  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
That sucks but keep going, you'll soon having it fighting fit


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jimmer7
Sub Adult

United Kingdom
661 Posts

Posted - 17/07/2013 :  16:36:33  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Been to vet today, she specialise in reptiles, she also looks after bristol zoo reptiles.
Her plan of attack is nebuliser 4 times aday with f10 plus 1 warm bath aday and a injection every 3 days for 8 injections.

Winston Pinstripe
Pepsi Lesser Yb
Ronnie Sulfur Mojave
Sponge bob Firefly
Dr marshmallow brazilan black terranchala
Skellator costa Rican zebra T
Plus4 hissing cockroaches.
Reggie CA dwarf boa het blood
Willow Hognose
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jimmer7
Sub Adult

United Kingdom
661 Posts

Posted - 10/08/2013 :  01:42:06  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Up date on R I, he have had 8 injections of phortume, 1 every 3days plus 3 nebulizer every day, but still no better, so now just sent off swob of Sylvia to lab, so they can run test and tell me the next step to take.
He have lost a bit of weight but I was advised not to feed him, but I might offer him a small mouse see what he does. He is only a late 2012 but he looks tiny for his age now.

Winston Pinstripe
Pepsi Lesser Yb
Ronnie Sulfur Mojave
Sponge bob Firefly
Dr marshmallow brazilan black terranchala
Skellator costa Rican zebra T
Plus4 hissing cockroaches.
Reggie CA dwarf boa het blood
Willow Hognose
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Lotabob
Royal Python Moderator

United Kingdom
5008 Posts

Posted - 10/08/2013 :  19:58:06  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Poor fella, that's been going on for some time now. I'd follow the vets advice, they must think their is no immediate need to feed. Did you contact the seller as to become so sick didn't happen overnight.


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jimmer7
Sub Adult

United Kingdom
661 Posts

Posted - 10/08/2013 :  23:13:39  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Yeh phoned him 3 days after got snake home, all I got was told was it was fine with him, but as vet said theres no way he got that bad so quickly, got to send swob off on Monday.
Its hard buying a snake off someone you dont know, went to his house to collect it, all looked fine, but have learnt now from vets that if you drop temp on them it covers the signs untill they are warmed up again, not say they done that, but as they say infections of the respiritory system happens.
Beside that the snake is lovely, with all the injections and mouth cleaning and nebulisers he got to put up with havent go for me once.
But what I am paying on vet bills I could of bought him 3 times over,.

Winston Pinstripe
Pepsi Lesser Yb
Ronnie Sulfur Mojave
Sponge bob Firefly
Dr marshmallow brazilan black terranchala
Skellator costa Rican zebra T
Plus4 hissing cockroaches.
Reggie CA dwarf boa het blood
Willow Hognose

Edited by - Lotabob on 14/08/2013 21:30:20
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chrisc
Old Royal - I Post too much!

United Kingdom
3326 Posts

Posted - 10/08/2013 :  23:33:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
sorry to hear about the RI an him not improving just yet

not heard of phortume the usual antibiotic's for an RI is baytril but i was given fortrum when my rat snake had a RI and a bit of mouth rot

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jimmer7
Sub Adult

United Kingdom
661 Posts

Posted - 11/08/2013 :  00:51:19  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It was fortrum, he had,, at time of writing first post I was unsure, how to pronounce it let alone spell it.

Winston Pinstripe
Pepsi Lesser Yb
Ronnie Sulfur Mojave
Sponge bob Firefly
Dr marshmallow brazilan black terranchala
Skellator costa Rican zebra T
Plus4 hissing cockroaches.
Reggie CA dwarf boa het blood
Willow Hognose
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chrisc
Old Royal - I Post too much!

United Kingdom
3326 Posts

Posted - 11/08/2013 :  00:55:54  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by jimmer7

It was fortrum, he had,, at time of writing first post I was unsure, how to pronounce it let alone spell it.



ah right. ask them about trying batril next as that's the main treatment for RI's, im assuming he has some mouth rot(stomatitis)? what are you cleaning his mouth with?

1.0.0 burmese python,giblet. 1.0.0 BCI, william. 0.1.0 blue tongue skink, 0.1.0 green iguana, jasmin, 1.0.0 cape house snake, 0.1.0 checkered garter snake

my youtube. http://www.youtube.com/user/pegrocks
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Edited by - chrisc on 11/08/2013 00:56:17
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jimmer7
Sub Adult

United Kingdom
661 Posts

Posted - 11/08/2013 :  19:44:24  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Every time you nebulize them with f10 it brings loads of saliva up into the mouth so f10 on cotton bud sticks just to remove the gunk.

Winston Pinstripe
Pepsi Lesser Yb
Ronnie Sulfur Mojave
Sponge bob Firefly
Dr marshmallow brazilan black terranchala
Skellator costa Rican zebra T
Plus4 hissing cockroaches.
Reggie CA dwarf boa het blood
Willow Hognose
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Lotabob
Royal Python Moderator

United Kingdom
5008 Posts

Posted - 14/08/2013 :  21:34:51  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I hope in time a more uniform method of treating RI becomes common practice, you hear of so many different ways each vet attacks the problem. I suppose as the hobby becomes more widespread more research and studies will be done, papers wrote etc and things will become easier.

Keep us posted on this ones progress and fingers crossed a well snake is just around the corner


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jimmer7
Sub Adult

United Kingdom
661 Posts

Posted - 14/08/2013 :  22:33:25  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The swop I sent to the lab gets tested and the what ever antibiotics works on it thats what they will ask my vet to give me, for the snake

Winston Pinstripe
Pepsi Lesser Yb
Ronnie Sulfur Mojave
Sponge bob Firefly
Dr marshmallow brazilan black terranchala
Skellator costa Rican zebra T
Plus4 hissing cockroaches.
Reggie CA dwarf boa het blood
Willow Hognose
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Robert
Royal Python Moderator

United Kingdom
957 Posts

Posted - 26/08/2013 :  13:28:20  Show Profile  Visit Robert's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Oh that sucks I hope the little fella gets well soon, sounds like he's in good hands


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Kelfezond
The bearded one

United Kingdom
4803 Posts

Posted - 26/08/2013 :  15:08:02  Show Profile  Visit Kelfezond's Homepage  Click to see Kelfezond's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Poor little guy, that sounds like one really bad RI I've had one before that was relatively easy to treat but that sounds scary!

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