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Worst impaction ever!!!

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I went to the reptile expo in san antonio over the weekend and picked up a very odd looking pastel ball python. I only wanted it because it looked so unusual. When I asked the owner of the company when the last time the snake was fed, he said on thursday. But the woman who was there said they fed it every day. That made me very iffy about purchasing the snake, but I did anyway. While holding the snake when i got home i realized that the mass in the stomach that they claimed was food was rock solid and was that way all the way down to the cloaca. weighed the snake when I got her home and she weighed 248g. after soaking her for 15 min, she pooped. I weighed her again after that and she was down to 204g. That was on saturday night. I soaked her again yesterday and she pooped again, now she is down to 168g and still has a very large mass in her. What do you guys think I should do? Other than the impaction, she is also very skinny. what can I do to bulk her up and get her healthy?
 
The only buisness I know of called "Reptiles Ectetera" is owned by Taron Langhover, and as far as I know, they don't sell ball pythons - only poison dart frogs.
Not sure if that was them or just someone else using their name, but I really don't think they work with anything but darts.
 
Let her finish "clearing out the pipes." Obviously, they over/powerfed her and she has some backed up issues. Let her fully cleanse out and get plenty of water before you feed her again. If they power fed her that hard, it shouldn't be a problem getting her to eat after letting her recover and get back to "healthy" weight. Rule of thumb. If a juvenile has fat folds instead of muscular lines, you should pass on that animal :)
 
Please be careful about bringing business names into the discussion forums. BOI topics are not permitted here, and it doesn't take much to cross that line (asking for people's experiences, for example).

As has been said - make sure it passes everything before resuming feeding. With a little luck, the snake will take food on its own (sadly, I have seen skinny, nonfeeding snakes that were force fed to excess in order to make them look "normal" for a sale. I thought it was pretty obvious that there was something wrong, but I guess people fell for it often enough because that vendor had one or two like that just about every show.
 
I agree. Let the snake clean itself out. Once that's done, give it a regular 5-7 day feeding schedule. It should gain weight steadily on that schedule and make it healthy, not overweight. Power-feeding is never good, but that's the worst I've heard of one getting backed up from it. Best of luck!
 
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