Thiamin deficiency video (seizures)

[Snake lover 3-25]

my snake is very picky and i need to feed her a toad, worm, or fish before she will eat any pinkies and even those have to be scented... now that we have so much snow there is no way that i can find worms or toads...

[zooplan]

The danger on Tiamin defiency is the wide varity of symptoms that may occur.
I´ve lost a male by this, the only symptom I can imagine was a little flurry during a few days, than suddenly I found him dead in his enclosure.
From his posture I could see that he died in a seizure.

[Stefan-A]

Just wanted to add that we sometimes call it beriberi when it happens to us.

Beriberi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[adamanteus]

Just wanted to add that we sometimes call it beriberi when it happens to us.

Beriberi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I never knew that. You learn something new every day.

[anji1971]

I'd forgotten all about Beriberi!! It's prevalent in third world countries-- think I saw a video in school years back about starving kids in Africa with it............although I didn't realise it was the same thing we've been talking about here!

[KITKAT]

I have a juvie fl. eastern that is going thru this right now.I was feeding rosy reds.I guess around five months straight.It would not eat anything else.A couple of weeks ago It started corkscrewing when I picked it up.So the next two times I fed it I pinkie pumped.It does'nt corkscrew anymore.Its head is tilted sometimes,But is moving around way better.Out of about a hundred snakes this is the only one I have had do this.

Try injecting the mice with a little bit of the Doc Roy's Vitamin B complex. You can get it at Revival Animal Health

That was what I tried to feed to my girl after she started seizing, but I figure I was too little too late.

[KITKAT]

OK... with your encouragement, I have changed the options on my video. You can now rate it, and you can embed it.

You can also leave comments, but I have to approve them before they are public.