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Originally Posted by Socratic Monologue
One is tube feeding -- mix a slurry of chicken baby food, raw egg, and a little herp multivitamin and use a dosing needle or feeding tube. This does indeed keep snakes alive for long periods of time (about 2 years is the longest in my experience, and which point I gave up) but is a pretty advanced thing. Perhaps this (or some other technique) could be used by your vet to get a sample (to produce some poop, or some other technique like a cloacal wash).
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Metronidazole is sometimes used successfully on non-feeding herps (with the thought that they have an amoebic infection); one of the safer anthelmintics (fenbendazole comes to mind) might be a good idea depending on what parasites ATBs tend to come in with. This should be something the vet could advise on.
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IIRC metronidazole (aka flagyl) is also commonly given to WC imports as it stimulates appetite. Most WC critters don't eat as they arrive stressed and with a substantial parasite load.