Mouth infection or something ??

[d_virginiana]

You can still tell Harley's mouth isn't 100% right, and it's been over a year. Substrate getting stuck on it was a big issue until I put her on newspaper. She likes it just as well since I put a lot of craft store vines on top of it.

[RedSidedSPR]

I'll use a needle. Although my hands shake a lot too. That was actually one of my biggest reasons, but I'll try to

I'll monitor him and keep you updated. Thanks a lot for the help

[d_virginiana]

Can you go by CVS and buy a box of insulin needles? They're sterile until you break a seal and IMO they seem to have a finer point. More likely to get the blood flowing with less tissue damage than other kinds of needles. Plus, they're a good 'medicine cabinet' sort of thing to have around.

[RedSidedSPR]

Can you go by CVS and buy a box of insulin needles? They're sterile until you break a seal and IMO they seem to have a finer point. More likely to get the blood flowing with less tissue damage than other kinds of needles. Plus, they're a good 'medicine cabinet' sort of thing to have around.

Awesome. I'll get some.

[CrazyHedgehog]

I have been lucky enough never to get a snake mouth infection, (runs off to touch some wood, just in case) but out of interest, what causes it?

[guidofatherof5]

Could be from a substrate sliver. Maybe an opportunistic bacteria or virus.
Most of the time I think it's from food bites from another snake.

[RedSidedSPR]

Yeah I'm assuming its from a bite during or after the last feeding.

He's a spaz during feeding and often starts the fights, resulting in a lot of a mouth to mouth chaos. He probably brought him on himself shortly after the feeding as I left almost immediately afterwards, something I try not to do, for the sole reason of this particular snake, who tends to attack anything that smells like food be it my hand or a snake, with or without actual food.

[d_virginiana]

My albino's mouth infection was caused by a food fight... with his tank. Yes.
He goes nuts around food like that too, and somehow a piece of food landed on the silicon border in the tank, and he just latched on. Took about five minutes for him to get off. A day or two later was when I first noticed his mouth puffing up

[ConcinusMan]

I agree. Most of the time it's caused by food fights. I've never had the problem otherwise. So, it's really important to avoid the fights. This mouth condition is hard treat but easy to prevent.

[RedSidedSPR]

I'm always really careful to prevent fighting.

Basically one of my tanks cracked, and I had 5 adult snakes in a 20 gallon and made the mistake of feeding them all in the same cage. Was short on time and just wanted to give them all a pinky before leaving for a few days.

Didnt see a fight but I'm sure it happened.