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waggster
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
14 Posts |
 Posted - 29/10/2012 : 14:51:35
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| Advice please. We fed our year old snow corn last night. 2 fuzzies as normal. She is almost 3 foot long and weighs 128 g. We noticed today that she is twitching occasionally and the right side of her mouth droops sometimes and it looked like she was rubbing the dropped side against her belly. This isn't happening all the time but just today. Temps etc are normal. She is drinking ok. Any advice please as we are worried that something is wrong because she has not done this before. |
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Donnie
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3215 Posts |
Posted - 29/10/2012 : 19:48:41
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| Personally I think a trip to the vets should be in order. Twitching is never normally a good sign and even if it turns out to be nothing I would rather be safe than sorry. |
1.1 Corns (Anery Stripe, Amel) 1.0 Rootbeer 0.2 Jungle Carpet Python 1.0 Zebra Jungle Carpet Python 1.0 50% Diamond Zebra Carpet Python |
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Georgina
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2382 Posts |
Posted - 29/10/2012 : 20:07:33
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| sounds like her jaw didnt go back properly. personally i would have a look but if you have no knowledge of these things i would let her digest and then pop her to the vets x |
1.0 western hognose (hero)
1.0 phantom reverse pin dal brindle crested gecko (goyle)
0.2 red dal red harly (sprite) 99% full pin Harley crested gecko (TuLong)
0.0.3 miomantis paykullii
0.0.3 Bombina orientalis (oriental fire bellied toad)
0.3 fancy mice (snap, crackle and pop)
1.0 yorkshire terrier (jasper)
2.1 cats (echo, shadow and pokey) |
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Donnie
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3215 Posts |
Posted - 29/10/2012 : 20:48:13
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Originally posted by Georgina
sounds like her jaw didnt go back properly. personally i would have a look but if you have no knowledge of these things i would let her digest and then pop her to the vets x
Agree completely with the looking at the mouth for maybe a hooked tooth or substrate stuck in there but not sure why that would cause twitching and that was the part that would make me take a trip to the vet. |
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Georgina
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2382 Posts |
Posted - 29/10/2012 : 20:53:26
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| i was thinking more flicking rather than twitching maybe trying to flick it make in place x |
1.0 western hognose (hero)
1.0 phantom reverse pin dal brindle crested gecko (goyle)
0.2 red dal red harly (sprite) 99% full pin Harley crested gecko (TuLong)
0.0.3 miomantis paykullii
0.0.3 Bombina orientalis (oriental fire bellied toad)
0.3 fancy mice (snap, crackle and pop)
1.0 yorkshire terrier (jasper)
2.1 cats (echo, shadow and pokey) |
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Donnie
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3215 Posts |
Posted - 29/10/2012 : 20:59:33
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| You may be right Georgina, the OP's use of 'twitching' may be just that and not twitching in the sense I imagine |
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waggster
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
14 Posts |
Posted - 30/10/2012 : 12:20:12
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| Thanks everyone. So far looks like she just had an off moment trying to get her jaws re aligned. All ok now :) |
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Georgina
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2382 Posts |
Posted - 30/10/2012 : 13:45:17
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| Gla to hear it x |
1.0 western hognose (hero)
1.0 phantom reverse pin dal brindle crested gecko (goyle)
0.2 red dal red harly (sprite) 99% full pin Harley crested gecko (TuLong)
0.0.3 miomantis paykullii
0.0.3 Bombina orientalis (oriental fire bellied toad)
0.3 fancy mice (snap, crackle and pop)
1.0 yorkshire terrier (jasper)
2.1 cats (echo, shadow and pokey) |
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lotabob
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
4334 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2012 : 01:22:31
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| A lot of these things have a way of resolving itself but it sounds like possibly got something stuck in its mouth, fur or substrate, it is advisable to know how to make a snake open its mouth for just such an occasion. I would however address the feeding situation, 2 fuzzies doesn't sound enough food for the weight of your snake. Just looked up my records and at that weight I was feeding mine small-medium mice, (my 24 gram House Snake is eating fuzzies) |
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Giant Asian Forest Scorpion, SALLY.
Giant African Land Snails, SHELDON & MICHELLE.
Budwing Mantis, MAIA
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Razee
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2525 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2012 : 08:17:59
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| Lotabob, how do you open a small snakes mouth? I read about 2 different methods, which would be ok for a royal, or an adult corn, but I can't imagine even trying to hold the head of a hatchling or a yearling, let alone to open it? They're just so tiny and fragile. |
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1.0.0 CB11 Abbots Okeetee- Little Twiddler
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0.0.2 CB18 normal/ Okeetee yearlings Bunny and Lalalishka
0.0.1 hognose
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lotabob
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
4334 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2012 : 20:19:22
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| I have done it to a 7 gram house snake with an RI, way smaller than a hatchling corn snake, they are fragile but not so fragile that you cant examine them when you need to. I get a thin drinks straw or a cotton bud with all the fluffy bits chopped off, gently hold the snake just behind the jaw and put the straw to the snakes nose and move it just into the snakes mouth, their normal response is to open their mouth then just gently use the straw to hold it open while you have a quick look. It takes absolutely no force at all, the hardest part is holding them still. |
Anery Corn snake SPOT. Royal Python, DUKE. Hogg Island Boa, SANKE. Albino House Snake, HAL.
Harlequin Crested Gecko HARLEY
Albino Horned Frog WAKA
Chilean Rose Tarantula TRIXIE. Brazilian Salmon Pink Bird-eating Tarantula SAM. Orange Baboon Tarantula BORIS.
Giant Asian Forest Scorpion, SALLY.
Giant African Land Snails, SHELDON & MICHELLE.
Budwing Mantis, MAIA
Dubia Roach Colony. Silkworm Colony. Mealworm Colony. Waxworm Colony. Fruit Beetle Colony.
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