emaciated???

[GartersRock]

I agree! Looks awful!

Oh and Shannon!! I was just about to post a thread asking about that blister disease!
My bluestripe female that was a LTC WC that I purchased about 2 months ago had her babies about... 3 weeks ago? I can't remember. She had 12. They where all in excellent health. All born alive and healthy and eating great right away. Varied diet.
Last week I looked in on the babies and they where fine and clean. Next day I look in and they were COVERED in bumby blisters and one in each cage was dead... I had the boys and girls seperated in two cages at birth and have had no contact since. They where both eating the same food (and so are my 2 peninsula ribbon litters). Next day 2 more dead! Now there are only 3.2 and I fear they won't survive long. What the HECK is this. The bluestripe litter was the start of an extremely important project for me.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

I agree! Looks awful!

Oh and Shannon!! I was just about to post a thread asking about that blister disease!
My bluestripe female that was a LTC WC that I purchased about 2 months ago had her babies about... 3 weeks ago? I can't remember. She had 12. They where all in excellent health. All born alive and healthy and eating great right away. Varied diet.
Last week I looked in on the babies and they where fine and clean. Next day I look in and they were COVERED in bumby blisters and one in each cage was dead... I had the boys and girls seperated in two cages at birth and have had no contact since. They where both eating the same food (and so are my 2 peninsula ribbon litters). Next day 2 more dead! Now there are only 3.2 and I fear they won't survive long. What the HECK is this. The bluestripe litter was the start of an extremely important project for me.

Amanda, that sounds really bad. I don't know what it is or how your newborn babies would get something like that if they haven't really contacted anything. The few times I have seen it it was right after a very stressful period in the snakes life, like the day after shipping or coming home from a show. Maybe the extreme stress causes their immune system to dip so low that blisters just overcome them quickly. It just amazes me how fast they appear, and how fast the baby drops afterwards. I have never seen it in an adult snake, only in babies. Possibly they are stressed and it caused it? I really don't know.