Quote Originally Posted by guidofatherof5 View Post
Good looking snake.
She's probably under enough stress settling in to her new home.
You can probably wait awhile on the de-worming but it would be wise to get it done at some point so you have some peace of mind.
An underside tail photo would help determine the sex of your little treasure. Here's a link to a thread that will show you what to look for.
This way you can do-it-yourself or post the appropriate photos and we'll help.
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/bree...xing-pics.html

This is not say Steve is wrong, or deworming is wrong, this is just how I see it.

I know deworming them can give us peace of mind, but in other species I have found deworming, when not a neccesity, can be very hard on the animal. Even with WC, I like to watch them for a long time before I decide to do a deworming. I lost a few chondros and emeralds back in the day due to deworming. And you must remember, some bacteria in your snake is good. There are lots of normal flora which are killed off when we deworm our snakes, and it is my opinion that the snake needs some of these and that is where the harmful part comes in.

I by no means am an expert, nor a vet, but this is just in my experience. On the other hand, I have had snakes with parasite loads and I had no choice but to deworm, and they did fine. I just never consider it as "must" just because the animal was WC or "could" have worms/parasites.