Obviously the best thing to do is a necropsy, which your vet will probably do. But here are somethings to think about before going.....



Are you sure there are no fumes in that closet? Carbon monoxide maybe? I would get a detector to be safe if you dont already have one.



Were these snakes ever in contact with each other?



Are they fed mice from the same source?



Do you feed frozen all the time?



Do you sanitize your hands between handling different animals?



Any weird bugs in the room?



Did they behave normally until death?



How good is the water you give them? Is it well water, municipal? Do you drink the same water they do?



Im a mammalian biologist so not all of this may apply to your particular situation, but they are just some things to worry about until you get the necropsy done. As for the lungworm, I am not sure about that. I would find it odd that a mammalian lungworm would be able to make it from the frozen feeder to your snake and still be alive and able to infect. Most helminth and nematod parasites need to go through an intermediate host (snails, insects) to infect the parimary host (reptiles, mammals). And they mammalian parasites usually are not able to infect reptiles. But as I said, I am not much of a reptile biologist so that just some educated speculation on my part.



Hope you get this figured out and let us know what the cause was, you have a huge collection and it would be a shame to loose any more animals.



Vinny
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