Borneo Blood

[kingsnaker]

I've read this by Kathy Love and actually tried it "Some people have gone as far as leaving a used clothing item such as a T-shirt in the cage of a new pet. They claim it helps the snake get used to thier smell more quickly. We dont know if it works or not, but cant see that it would hurt".

[kingsnaker]

Okay, I think my Borneo is constipated..I gave it one nice warm soak and i also gave it a massage and felt the hard feces.
yet still nothing.
should i just go onto dripping oil on its next meal and hope for the best?

[Bushviper]

Mineral oil (medicinal liquid parrafin) at 1ml per kilogram of snake can be used as it is or introduced with food. I prefer just giving it alone so that there are less faeces to deal with the next time in any case.

[kingsnaker]

I dripped a lil bit of castor oil on its rabbit today, the pharmacist told me its the same thing. i hope it works

[kingsnaker]

Okay its been a week since a gave it that castor oil, yet still nothing. now what? i'm starting to worry.

[Bushviper]

Try another chemist and see if you can get liquid paraffin. Weigh the snake and dose it with the exact amount. I have no idea what the chemical / physiological reaction would be between the two oils mentioned and this could be the difference. I would also slip some extra water in with the mixture. In the past I have often taken these snakes outside into the garden and then let the blood pythons crawl across the grass after soaking an area with water. Letting them move around in a wet environment has helped them to defecate.

[Bjorn]

Yip BV got the solution there. Lots of exercise will produce a defication. I don't worry to much anymore but almost everyone keeping a blood has worried at some stage. I have had some keep in for 3-4 months with 13 meals and they put my pitbull to shame easily. It seems wrong but bloods just keep it in for ages. When they get backed up a good bit of exercise will give the result every time. Probably on of the only snakes you can tell but picking it up that it has taken a dump because they weigh much less.

[kingsnaker]

Yip BV got the solution there. Lots of exercise will produce a defication. I don't worry to much anymore but almost everyone keeping a blood has worried at some stage. I have had some keep in for 3-4 months with 13 meals and they put my pitbull to shame easily. It seems wrong but bloods just keep it in for ages. When they get backed up a good bit of exercise will give the result every time. Probably on of the only snakes you can tell but picking it up that it has taken a dump because they weigh much less.

You take the load off when you put it that way, tyvm BV and Bjorn