Red Blood keeps getting blocked up...

emroul · 05-05-04, 11:51 AM

I don't really know what's going on with this one. I was holding her a couple weeks ago, and noticed 3 pretty good sized lumps about 1"-2" up from her cloaca. It felt like huge urates, and I do know she hasn't passed ANYTHING since she's been in my care (about 2 months), and I know it's not completely abnormal for bloods to contain everything in them for quite sometime (so to speak). But the lumps worried me, so I took her to the vet and he manually palpated all the feces out of her (there was A LOT). So I thought, maybe that helped 'unblock' her. Nope, not likely. Yesterday I felt those lumps again. She hasn't even passed urates on her own, I don't understand. I have her on pretty damp cypress mulch (and she stays buried 24/7), a huge water bowl for her to soak in (which she uses on occasion), inside a 32-quart rubbermaid in a rack. That's exactly what the vet told me to do, and she's been on that for the entire 2 months that I've had her.

She's about 24" long or so, 452 grams, feeding on medium rats. I have tried soaking her in warm water, that didn't work. A vet told me to try a syringe filled with 100F water and gently insert it into her cloaca. He said if that doesn't get the urine out, nothing will. Hmmm....What do you guys think?

*Sorry about the novel, but I had to ask

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Jennifer

axwielding1 · 05-05-04, 04:25 PM

My blood passes 2-4 urate balls every 2 months or so, usually after soaking her. If you hold yours by the top half of the body, after a long soak, and stroke her down her belly, she should pass them. On a side note, mine got a belly burn from her under-tank heating pad about a month ago. I took her to the vet today, who wasn't very familiar with bloods, and she gave me a tube of silver sulfadiazine cream, used for burns. The vet gave her an exam and said no RI, and she looked quite healthy. Measured at 38" and weighed 2.4 lbs.
I mentioned that she hasn't really crapped since I've had her, just urin balls and milky water. She checked her and said she certainly isn't constipated and is probably utilizing all the nutrients toward growing. She also stated that the burn will probably take 6 months to heal, and will probably leave some kind of scar (damn!) Didn't affect her cloaca though..
A girl in the vet's office also had a Black stp and came in and held mine for awhile. Anyways, I got a name of a herpatologist who also breeds, and she said I could call him with questions, and about breeding, and he may have a male maylasian for me!!!!
So, there's my vet experience..
ax.

Linds · 05-05-04, 10:19 PM

I find that perfectly normal with my guys. You can visually see them inside and sometimes you can even feel the urates scraping eachother. Mine always empty them eventually. I wouldn't worry about forcing them out. They store that stuff away for good reason

It's just the way they are. They seem to store it away for months, then when it eventually comes out, it looks like they crapped out their long lost twin

Corey Woods · 05-05-04, 10:29 PM

Leave them alone...........they will poop when they are ready.

Corey

emroul · 05-05-04, 10:31 PM

Oh seriously? So this isn't my snakes' individual problem? Man, that's G-R-E-A-T to hear. They should really warn you about that in the care sheets man, lol. I spent lots of moola for my vet to "unblock" my blood. Ah well, good to know, thanks Linds!

Jennifer

sapphire_moon · 05-06-04, 05:18 AM

what about going pee, my blood has pee'd atleast 4 times in the last 7days (2 yesterday!) he has had 1 urate stones, 2 others had tiny urate stones, and there was alteast 1 other time with no urate stone, just alot of pee.

Is this normal, I do see him drinking alot, and when he soaks he likes to dunk his head underwater for a few minutes, so he could be drinking then as well.

axwielding1 · 05-06-04, 04:29 PM

I know mine pees alot when soaking (liquid) in her waterdish..
Urate stones every 1-2 months, or when I soak her during shed.
ax.

beaglegod · 05-11-04, 09:18 PM

Ive had my black blood for 1 month 1 week and hes peed almost every week,clear no urates, and hes not crapped once yet. Never misses a meal either but I was getting worried bout him not passing urates and poop for me.