Lumpy concinnus

[Odie]

Can a mother snake pass worms to her offspring before birth the way a dog does?

same here

[Ctah_Lu]

i have a thamnophis whit simmilar symptoms, its there any
treatment for this parasites?

[guidofatherof5]

You first have to know that it is a parasite problem. That usually means the swollen area has to be opened so the possible parasite can be identified.
Then a Vet. can offer treatment options.

[zooplan]

Can a mother snake pass worms to her offspring before birth the way a dog does?

They normally do not!
The gravidity of a snake is quite different to those of mamals.
The worms, that are adapted to dogs, would not be able to breed in snakes successfully.
But there is a wide spread of parasite worm species, so the best way remainig is to keep parents clean.

[ConcinusMan]

Have we even established that this is a parasite? My baby concinnus have never been kept with any other snakes that could pass parasites onto them, and they have never been fed anything that I can think of to give them parasites. I'm not saying it's impossible, just not very likely. None of the babies I still have show anything remotely like this. Updates Steve?

[guidofatherof5]

Since my last post I did loss another small slow eater. I still think I have 1 maybe 2 that are on the edge.
The lumpy ones are still lumpy and doing great. I'm trying to get some size on them before I look into the problem.
I don't think it's parasites. More likely some kind of internal blister/hemorrhage.

[ConcinusMan]

You mean there's more than one lumpy one? I wonder if this is some sort of injury that happened after you got them? I never noticed any lumps before I shipped.

I fully expected you to lose some if not all of those smaller, trouble feeder ones that I sent to see if you save them. You're doing a great job and they are still doing better than I expected. I think I sent 11 of those if I remember right. How many have been lost so far, do you know? Anyway, I think it's fewer than I expected by this time.

For those of you that don't know what's going on, I picked 11 babies out of the 54 born this year. They were "failure to thrive" babies. I sent them to Steve (no charge for snakes) knowing he has a special touch with babies, hoping that some could be saved. So far, he's doing a great job but you can't save them all.

[guidofatherof5]

Two with lumps. No place here for them to get injuries, other than bites from cage mates.
I've only lost 2 out of the original 11.

[ConcinusMan]

And I've lost 5, and that's out of the healthier ones I didn't send. Two of those were my high black 3-stripers but they never were doing all that well. That's only 7 so far out of about 50. Not bad at all. Not great, but not that bad.

[ConcinusMan]

One of the very high black 3-stripe concinnus babies that didn't make it. I'm so disappointed. He was so unusual for a concinnus and if I didn't know any better I'd swear he wasn't a concinnus at all. R.I.P. little fella.