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Indo Trea Boa acting weird--shedding? dehydrated?
Our Indonesian Trea Boa is acting weird. I just noticed it this morning and it's New Year's Day. I have the card for a vet that services reptiles, but I have never been in to visit them. His service provides the number of another vet whom I have called, but does not service reptiles. They told me to find a reptile vet. Just so you know I've tried the obvious of calling the vet first. The store where I got him isn't open today either.
He has a gekko in his cage with him so we haven't gotten him out much in the past week. The gekko stays at the very tip top of the cage and the snake can't get up there.
Yesterday, I noticed the snake change positions about three or four times. He doesn't do much, but I still check on him just to see what he's up to. I didn't notice anything odd yesterday, but maybe I just didn't see it.
Today, he was coiled up on the bottom of his cage, which he does sometimes, but I noticed that his skin looked a lot lighter in color. When I got closer, I thought he "didn't look too good" for lack of a better description. He is 18 inches long and I'd say his head and about four inches down are the normal color and look, but the rest of his body is ashen.
I have to admit, I'm afraid of him so I had my daughter get him out of the cage. His body is kind of stiff and isn't supple like usual. He didn't care for her getting him out of his cage at all. He usually reacts very calmly to her.
He has a water dish and I did notice that the level was going down more quickly than usual, but the temperature isn't higher than normal in his cage. In case he was dehydrated, I got a larger dish and my daughter put him in it. He left a few inches of his body in the dish, and when I checked on him, I noticed white fluid coming out of a whole near his tail and he smells awful.
I cleaned his cage, wet it down and put him back in, trying to put him into the shallow dish, but I missed and his body kind of stood on end. He didn't squirm or move for a few minutes.
The on-call vet suggested that he was shedding, but when I looked online, it says they shed from the head to the tail. He has some of the other symptoms I saw like the funny color and being a little more irritable than usual.
We have had him for about six weeks and he hasn't shed. We have noticed that his underbelly is getting really shiny and thought he was shedding a little at a time instead of in a complete shed like he's supposed to.
So, have a provided enough details to tell if he's dehydrated or just shedding? I don't know that I can get him to a vet before tomorrow and I'm afraid he will die.
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