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Unknown Parasite found in WC Waglers Viper "Dialup Warning"

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Here are a few pics, anyone have any idea what this is? It was found in a fresh fecal flotation from a WC Waglers Viper exported from Malaysia. The dots lined up in the strands are really about 30-40 smaller dots that seem to be dispersed towards the end of the strands and have been found through out the fecal. The magnification is at 400x.

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Well, I'm not discounting that they are not dark hair strands, but if they are, man, it had me, my vet, and many others 100% fooled. Looks nothing like hair strains I've seen in fecals before, guess I got to see if any fo the mouse hairs at the store look like any of these under the scope. Let's hope my ignorance shows through on this one, I really would like to see this just end up being a few dark mouse hairs.
 
one other possibilty

it might not be from a mouse are there any odd marsupial critters
over there .

or the only other idea I cam come up with is they might be strands of some type of plant material blue green algee?
 
I'm no expert but it looks like some type of natural fiber to me too. At first I was thinking partially undigested plant material (like from the stomach of the animal eaten by the snake) but the way those dots are...yes, strands of hair sounds much more plasable. Can you look up small animals of malaysia and do some comparison research? What about the hair on small monkeys, and other "non-traditional" (lol) food sources?
 
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