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update on the corn with eimeria

ChaosCat

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The blizzard isn't going to make it.

For the past week, I've watched her go downhill. Today, she can't even right herself. She just sits there. Her heart beat is very slow, like that of a brumating snake. Her eyes do not dilate anymore.

I'm not sure if its the eimeria that killed her, or if the ivermectin injection did. She started to get much worse after the ivermectin.

I'm really worried that my other adult corns may have this eimeria, even though so far, they have tested negative. I bought some sulmet, does anyone know how much I should put in their drinking water?

My babies and my yearling corns are safe, as they have not been anywhere near the infested corn.

This is a big blow to me. She was the best blizzard corn I ever saw. Nearly no yellow anywhere. She was a prize in my collection.

This whole week has gone to hell... since her problem, I now have an albino bull snake who hasn't eaten his last two meals-he's a baby, and he's not doing so well. He has a lot of air in his gut-could it be a twisted gut?

Then yesterday, my male savu python got loose. My only male, and we cannot find him. We tore apart the snake room, no sign of him anywhere.

I should also add that my vet suspects the corn had the eimeria when she was sent to me a year ago, and that when I bred her, the resulting weakness made her suceptible.
 
Wow Cat, I'm really sorry to hear all of that. It seems there have been so many corns dying lately. I'm crossing my fingers that your other adults have not been infected and that you will find your python soon. My thoughts are with you! :)
 
that's too bad. sucks to watch something die, and not be able to help it out.

what exactly is eimeria? i'm not familiar with that disease.
 
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