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coccidia-eimeria

ChaosCat

ChaosCat

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I'm getting really frustrated here. Has anyone dealt with Eimeria before? I've never heard of it until now.

My Blizzard corn was diagnosed with a "mild" eimeria outbreak. She was put on Albon for 6 days, .6cc 1st day, .3cc every day after.

I finished the treatment, thought everything would be ok. Kept her in quarantine. Last night, I went to check on her, and she was puking up white mush. Scared the hell out of me, so I put the mush in a baggie and brought her and the mush to the vet.

While at the vet, she pooped. So I had the vet do a fecal too. She is WALL TO WALL of coccidia!!! The vet isn't sure if they are dead or alive, she is keeping a sample to see if they hatch out anything. The mush was decided to be pus, and it appears the corn is sloughing her stomach wall!

The corn is now on Amakacin, 0.01cc every other day. I don't know what to do at this point. She has been keeping food down, and otherwise appears healthy. My other two adult female corns have had fecals, and both were negative for coccidia. She hasn't been in contact with any other snakes, how could she have gotten the coccidia?

My vet is guessing the corn has had it all along, since I bought her last year. She thinks that it bloomed after she laid her unexpected, second clutch of eggs.

I'd appreciate any insight.
 
Hmmm, I have ended up with animals with Coccidia before, it can really pop up from all kinds of places. What I used is a 50mgs per every kg your snake weighs. Sometimes you have to be very good at fractions and have a miligram scale to figure it out. Anyway the way I have read, and have sucessfully done it is 50mgs per kg for three days then every 48 hours until the snake is clean. During this time, it is a must to sanitize the tank daily and immediately after your snake deficate. The water bowl must also be sanatized every day. You may want to check your source of mice as they may be reinfecting your snake. Good Luck.
 
Thanks for the input. I'm starting to think her coccidia did come from some mice that someone gave me about 2 months ago. I fed her the occasional live fuzzy when I would cull some of the fuzzies. Two of the mice died of unknown causes-they were just found dead. Otherwise, I feed thawed. I have not fed her a live mouse in over a month.

Her enclosure right now is a quarantine sterilite container, with paper towel substrate and a toss-away water dish. Whenever she defecates, I immediately clean and bleach the container, then put new paper towels in.
 
I have A Veterinary Guide to the Parasites of Reptiles: Volume I Protozoa by Barnard and Upton. It's got a few pages about Eimeria. I'll type the info up and e-mail it to you lest I break a bunch of copyright laws by posting it on here.
 
That would be great of you. I've had all my other adult corns tested, and all are clear-she is the only one with this Eimeria thing. :( I've culled the last of the mice from the batch I had fed to her.

My vet offered me a copy of the books by Fry, I'll prob pick them up. :)
 
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