Why 6 months?

[guidofatherof5]

What kind of substrate are you using?

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

those are fly larvae. I ahve had that happen to me before.. for instance if you drop a fish into a bowl for a snake but the snake does not eat it, and the fish dies and you don't catch it right away, it doesn't take long at ALL for the only little fruit fly in your entire house to magically find that particular bowl and drop eggs into it. A lot of times when I am swapping bowls out and changing water if I have a soiled one I will set it on a shelf I have to be cleaned after i am done (I have spare bowls and i rotate in clean ones) Sometimes i will forget I put it there, and then this will happen sometimes... The amount of time the old dish was left to sit was MORE than enough time for that to happen.

[kibakiba]

It does look kind of like fruit fly larvae to me. I would know, too... I have tons of fruitfly maggots (breeding fruitflies for my frogs)

[Hazeldarc]

so are you suppose to deworm all snakes?

[guidofatherof5]

Some keepers do and some don't until a parasite is found.
For the most part C/B snakes probably don't need it(depending on the diet they were fed)
I think(my opinion) any wild caught snake should at least have fecal float don't to see if parasites are present.

[Hazeldarc]

what is fecal float?

[guidofatherof5]

Sorry. You take a fecal sample to a Vet. They mix it with water, filter it, spin it and top off the test tube. They then put a microscope slide on top of the test tube and let it sit. Any parasite eggs and other nasties float to the top. After the right amount of time they remove the slide and place a slide cover on it. Then they look at it under a microscope and look for eggs, nematodes, etc.
Fecal flotation for detecting parasite burdens in faeces.
Fecal Float Parasite Pictures Gallery.

[Hazeldarc]

cool ty

[luke.B]

It looks just like the worms i just found in one of my snakes water dish recently. so i am treating some of my snakes for worms but now that i am thinking about it. i had some bananas go bad and there was some fruit flies around the trash wen i took it out right before it happen. and i also thought it was weird because there was a lot of them in there. and the snakes tank that it was in all seamed in good health and put on the wight real good.

[luke.B]

It looks just like the worms i just found in one of my snakes water dish recently. so i am treating some of my snakes for worms but now that i am thinking about it. i had some bananas go bad and there was some fruit flies around the trash wen i took it out right before it happen. and i also thought it was weird because there was a lot of them in there. and the snakes tank that it was in all seamed in good health and put on the wight real good.