Price of a Poop check?

jjmetro · #1 (**permalink**) 10-24-2005, 01:54 AM

I plan on taking my BCI and the two corns to the vet next weekend, check up on the BCI and initial check on the two babies. My bci let out a really big poop today and i was wondering about how much it costs for them to run a check on the poop for parasites and what not. i know every vet is gonna be different but a general would be nice to know......

whiteman · #2 (**permalink**) 10-26-2005, 11:10 PM

My vet charges $45 for my test.

whiteman · #3 (**permalink**) 10-26-2005, 11:11 PM

And that is for each snake.

wreckwriter · #4 (**permalink**) 10-27-2005, 02:23 PM

Mine is considerably less, about $15 for each fecal as I recall. I can get a check and treatment for less than 45.

Heidi · #5 (**permalink**) 10-27-2005, 02:29 PM

Fecal only is $12 for me and was like 26.00 for the check-up. They did them seperately since I didn't have a sample at the time of check-up.

On topic question. How fresh does the poo have to be and what to do with it in the mean time before you get to the vet. I just got lucky on the one that I had done and she had fresh poo that I had hubby just drop off on the way in. The second one I had done wasn't as fresh since Wil always goes sometime in the middle of the night and usually between his paper towels to hide them.

Jem_Scout · #6 (**permalink**) 10-27-2005, 03:11 PM

My vet charges 25,00 a poo.
Heidi, if you can't get it to the vet right away (like in the middle of the night) save it in the fridge, in a sealed baggie of course! lol

Heidi · #7 (**permalink**) 10-27-2005, 03:28 PM

That is what I ended up doing but still in the back of my mind I'm thinking it could have killed off something bad that wouldn't show up from being refrigerated. LOL. Paranoid mommy. I had a Ball python die on me from naive mistakes before I had wonderul internet friends and though I didn't have a necropsy done I insist it was probably parasites. Better safe then sorry. This is one of them we fed live and realized that was a mistake so started killing them, went on a feeding strike, got mites and was a total nightmare. It was after everything got cleared up that he died a few months later when all was seeming good. Thank goodness for all the information there is available to us now.

Jem_Scout · #8 (**permalink**) 10-27-2005, 03:32 PM

Well my vet told me to put it in the fridge, so I can't be passing on bad info can I? They said something about bacteria and other junk continuing to grow on the poop if it's left warm....

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