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Originally posted by Isoldael

The most common diseases are upper respiratory tract infections. Symptoms include wheezing, mucous discharge from the nose and mouth, sneezing, breathing with the mouth open, the curves of the back and sometimes differences in eating behavior. Prevention is especially a matter of ensuring good living conditions - good temperature, humidity, and of course no contact with already infected snakes. Treatment consists in particular in the increase of the temperature, the more frequent changing of the water, and maintain low air humidity. If it does not matter about, it is recommended to a (special) vet. Which could possibly be treated with antibiotics.

Mouth-rot is a nasty disease of snakes. Over there I have no information at hand, so that is just searching (google scholar is always useful to find things like that).

I do not know if peeling problems also wants to count "Illnesses" - there is certainly enough to find online.

Common parasites: These are particularly flagellates (endoparasites) and mites (ectoparasites).

Symptoms of flagellates may include altered appetite, regurgitation, diarrhea. Generally these are treated with antibiotics as Flagyl.

Mite is usually recognized by the behavior of the snake and the decline in condition rather than the mites themselves (which are very small). Restlessness, bathe himself in water backup, many graves and decreased appetite are usually the symptoms when first seen. For better inspection, then white dots on and between the scales are seen. Prevention takes place mainly through the disinfection of all objects that are placed in the terrarium, and placed in quarantine of new animals before they are introduced into the population. Treatment of mites occurs by the mites to drown. This can be done by a snake for a long time in shallow, warm water places (under supervision, hoses can best drown). When treatment is complete, the hose in a clean bath put, and then back into the terrarium. Obviously, the terrarium fully disinfected since the mites else just back on the hose can come. It is recommended to make the most out of the terrarium decoration to the tubing, and simple to replace surface to hold (eg kitchen paper). I believe that there are treatments which certain substances are added to the water, but I'm not sure.

Ticks are also common in snakes. These can just be seen with the naked eye, and removed with pliers (possibly after highlight with alcohol to remove them easier).

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