• Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

    =====================
    Posted 08/15/2025
    =====================


    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

    =====================
    Addendum: 01/10/2026
    =====================


    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Help!

R

rattyrugrats

New member
Joined
Jul 16, 2005
Messages
155
Reaction score
2
Points
0
Location
New Mexico
I got a baby boa about 3 weeks ago. He was doing fine yesterday but I just went in a minute ago and he is stiff and I found this in the cage. At this point, I'm not sure if he's alive or dead. Any info or help is greatly appreciated!
 

Attachments

  • Boogs 001.jpg
    Boogs 001.jpg
    110.3 KB · Views: 73
Sorry, I don't know what to tell you. Hope he's ok! Do you have him quarantined? If not, I'd move him.
 
That honestly doesn't look good. I don't know what it is, but I've never seen anything like that coming out of a baby boa. The first thing to do would be to figure out whether it is dead or alive. If it is dead, I'd get a necropsy done if possible. As Rachel said, get it away from all other animals, one way or the other. Also, sanitize the hell out of everything.

Personally, looking at it, I don't think it's going to be communicable. It looks like something is probably just wrong with some internal system. That being said, there's no reason to take chances.


Chris
 
Mucous - yes.
But I, myself, wouldn't hazard a guess as to which end it came out of. Either way, it isn't good...and if he's "stiff", as you stated, I'd say there isn't any doubt that it's bad.
There were no signs of poor health? Had he eaten? Defecated?
 
Unfortunately he didn't make it... He had defecated once but he hadn't eaten. I'm thinking now that his disinterest in eating was caused by him not feeling very well, but he seemed fine otherwise, except for what looked like dry feces around his vent which I hadn't encountered before either and was just soaking and waiting to see if it shed out (he never shed with me though).
 
I'm very sorry for your loss.

As other have indicated, sanitize his cage and *everything* he touched, including tools. Use a dilute bleach solution (~5%) to be safe.
 
Back
Top