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Vet visits?

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Bright Scale

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Hello everyone! Snake noob here, looking to get my first baby in July or so (probably from South Mountain). I've read dozens of care sheets, websites, and forums (spent two days lurking here already, heh) and the like, so I'm fairly confident that I'll find myself a happy snake owner unless the little guy keels over in that first week from shipping-stress or something. (So crossing my fingers on that one, I don't know what I'd do if I lost one that early!)

But one thing I can't find an answer to, even from searching these forums, is whether or not snakes need annual checkups or anything like that. Obviously, if they start wheezing or bleeding or anything funky like that, you take an emergency trip, but that goes for any pet.

I'm kinda hoping they don't need vet visits if they show no signs of distress or injury. Not that I wouldn't find a way if it turns out they do, but it will certainly be easier since I'm doing my best to pay all the snake's expenses out of my own pocket from working over the summer until fall semester starts. :)

Also, does anyone know how much it generally costs to board a snake at a vet? My mother is being willfully ignorant ("IT WILL EAT THE CATS" "...mom, they eat infant mice." "EAT THE CATS!") and likely will not allow me to bring a snake home from my college apartment over the month-long Christmas holiday. There will also be a couple weeks here and there over future summers where I'll be going out of town and need someone to watch my baby.

Thanks for your time! Hopefully I will be joining the ranks for real by the end of the summer. :)
 
I supose some of the more overly zealous keepers might take their snake to the vet for check ups but it's deffinately not the norm. You might want to take in a fecal sample onceevery year or 2 just to be sure but more than that is probably not needed. Just be observant of your snake and any changes and you should be alerted to anything potentialy nasty before it befomes a problem. Good luck picking out your new baby, what morph are you in love with this week?!!

Adèle
 
princess said:
You might want to take in a fecal sample onceevery year or 2 just to be sure but more than that is probably not needed. Just be observant of your snake and any changes and you should be alerted to anything potentialy nasty before it befomes a problem.
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That's a relief, I was hoping it was something like that. :)

princess said:
Good luck picking out your new baby, what morph are you in love with this week?!!
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This week? :rofl:

I was looking at some of the whites, especially the blizzard, but finally decided that I want something more vivid for my first. South Mountain's blood-red pictures are absolutely gorgeous, but even the less expensive male hatchlings are still $75. That's at least 30 more than any of the others I'm looking at, and with my first I'd rather save money for better tank stuff and vet emergencies. :) Right now, looking at red albino, okeetee, reverse okeetee, and sunglow. I don't know how I'll decide when it finally comes time to place the order! They're all so pretty!
 
If you're going for bloodred for brightness, go for a hypoblood intead, they have a lot less of the dark wash as mature adults.

I have a nice sunglow motley that you could consider 'bright'

A reverse Okeetee or a candycane would fit that bill too. Then there are the 'soft' brights' like opal, hypo lav, butter. These are more expensive than a reverse Okee though.

Here's a pic of my sunglow motley for an example of a nice one.
 

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Here's a pic of my sunglow motley for an example of a nice one.
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Gorgeous! That's one of the more brilliant-colored animals I've seen yet.

On looking at more pictures, I think I will cut my list of choices down to just red albino, reverse okeetee, or sunglow. Some of the regular okeetee out there are gorgeous, but it looks like just as many turn out kinda plain. That's awfully shallow of me, I guess, but I don't think any snake's feelings will be hurt. :crazy02:

And it doesn't seem like morph has any bearing on temperament, it's just a matter of the individual snake. This really will be a difficult choice! :)
 
I haven't noticed any great difference between temperament of the morphs, but then again you can't really judge that until you have experience with at least several dozen corns of various morphs. I have 2 snows from the 1 line however that I have to say are the most phenomenal eaters and growers. Not one refusal to date...eat straight through blue...
 
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