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    Re: Parasitic eggs? Undeveloped ova? Or normal poop?

    Well, because of the wild caught history of the animal I would look at this as suspicious but it doesn't really have the appearance of slugs or unfertilized ova. It may well be a form of diarrhea based on the sole fish based diet. I would consider scenting some small pink mice with the tilapia to get her to take some of that. If she does, then continue to observe the waste to see if the consistency changes. If it remains soft and watery then I would consider taking a sample to my vet for testing.
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    Re: Parasitic eggs? Undeveloped ova? Or normal poop?

    Thanks al. So far I've shown it to a few people, and compared many poops in and out of water dish with it. The perfectly spherical mucous membranes around the small white uniform chip shaped centers has a few people on the consensus that we think this is a very early term miscarriage, they remind me of frog eggs, and white centres are what would have been embryos.

    She has had a normal (normal for a snake on fish filet anyways) poop since this happened [little white and brown piles]. And the tilapia filet digested fast enough to let me feed every day but now that she's starting to look healthy enough to handle it again I'm gonna try getting her back on pinks, she fed on pinks exclusively before her escape.

    I think the coldness of the basement and dehydration caused her body to terminate a pregnancy that was already started but early. (A week or two fertilized). But she was too dehydrated too dehydrated to pass anything. And warming her back up and feeding and watering her, let her pass it. She was fairly dehydrated when found and I could see that state making it hard to pass... These.

    I decided to check her for abnormalities and there was a little swelling of her ovaries. Seemingly solidifying the current theory. She's small but she's just big and old enough that she would attempt breeding and before her escape she was in a small group that did have a couple males in it,

    I had my timeline off earlier too, she hadn't been loose as long as I thought, only about 3 weeks. Hopefully getting her back on pinks gives her some good brown poops! Lol

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