I'll try to make this brief, though I can be long winded. It's been forever since I've been on here and I'm kind of at my wits end with 2 sick snakes I have.

I put my whole collection down for the winter. Moved to a new house, keeping the snakes down for another month or so. I started to warm the collection up in a room that didnt really get good light. My collection had been on a rigid daylight schedule previously at the old house. So, the snakes were all warm, but no one still really showed any interest in eating after quite some time. I finally got some lights installed in the room and started the regular on/off day cycle. All but 2 of my snakes picked up and began to eat.
Currently, I have 2 lifeless pigmys (1 very old barbouri and 1 adult, unknown age streckeri) which I've been force feeding and watering for the past 2 months. The snakes are not dead, but they dont move, at all. It's like they're paralyzed. I'm feeding them pinkies and also (made for human infants) chicken hot dogs (think Viennese sausages).
I can pick the snakes up, and there's no protest at all. they're completely lifeless other than the fact they're esophagus opens and closes, so I know they're breathing...

Does anyone have any thoughts about what might be going on. I dont have an option for a local vet in the Charlottesville Va area, unless someone knows someone here.
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Tom

"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"

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