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Wild caught green mamba... HELP!!
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by Viperlady on September 16, 2009
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Hello, everyone...good day!!
I'm posting this message hoping you can be of help in this issue we've got with our newly arrived D. angusticeps. If you have experience yourself or can help me find someone who does, either would be great.
The animal seems to have arrived from Tanzania since the exporting company was based there. A couple weeks after arrival, it started showing signs of respiratory illness, along with intestinal parasites. We think the parasites might have impaired the immune system and then opportunistic bacteria infected the respiratory tract . We started analizing the signs and came to the conclusion this wasn't the classical stomatitis and started treating him (he's a boy, BTW) with Flagyl (metronidazole) for the parasites as well as improving his habitat parameters (Habitat arrangements, Temps and Humidity). Later parasite segments came out through feaces along with gelatinous material and pale looking areas. He appeared to be fine (except for the latter) and hasn't stopped feeding normally, however we belive there is some odynophagia because he would only swallow very small prey. I have heard and read these animals usually feed on small prey, but before it presented the above signs he used to eat adult mice and small 3 week rats witout any trouble.
Now, as of yesterday, he started again with the respiratory trouble, but his behavior is "normal" and he last ate on Sunday, so things are not going that bad. We are going to give him a baytril (enrofloxacin) dose to treat the respiratory illness. THE QUESTION:
* Is there anything more effective and less aggressive than enrofloxacin nowadays ?
* Have any of you had anything similar with your specimens (given that you own D. angusticeps obviously)?
Then, if that wasn't enough we found cestode segments on the last feaces, we plan to treat him with praziquantel. Now, the thing is, and I just wanna clear up these doubts:
* If we have a compromised immune system, a little stress from handling and possible dehydration due to parasite infestation, it wouldn't be safe to combine the treatments, and it should be better to treat him first for the bacteria and later for the cestodes, Am I right about that?
* Is it anyhow safe, considering the farmacokinetics, to give both treatments at the same time?
* Do you think it's better to separate the treatments? and how much time would you leave in between added the proper fluid therapy?
* Anybody knows a good care sheet either in spanish, english, french, italian or german that you would recommend apart from Richard Mastenbroek's at kingsnake.com?
Well, guess that's it.
Guys, I'd really appreciate the help specially because for us, mexican herpetologists and herpetoculturists, it's quite hard to get this kind of imports and we are proud to be the owners of the best herp collection in Mexico (not the largest, but the one with the healthiest, oldest and most beautiful animals), so we wouldn't be happy at all to lose this guy due to a bad medical procedure. By the way, if any of you could help me with the dosage tables that appear on Mader's Reptile Medicine and Surgery 2nd edition, I'd appreciate that... unfortunately I had the book but it was stolen, and don't have access to it at all until I order it again!! (God, that pissed me off!! sorry!!) and of course that takes too much time, a time that my angusticeps doesn't have right now.
Ok, hope you can help and thanks in advance for your interest in solving this issue.
Enjoy your day and Good Luck!!
Sincerely
Harumi Sánchez Watanabe
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