Yesterday morning, all my snakes were alive.



Last night, all my pythons were dead and dying. (I have a room full of colubrids, who all seem fime, so far.)



I have always tried to be careful about quarrentine procedures. Each snake has it's own feeding tub. I try to keep cages clean, and keep hand-sanitiser in the herp room.



Last year I brought in a boa who was too large to keep anywhere in my house but the herp room. She is the only snake who was not quarrentined. She dies suddenly, weeks after I got her. The necropsy indicated no signs of cryptosporosis.



My Snakes have been in brumation, and I was just warming them. All has seemed well, except one indident about a month ago, when one female ball python was twisting her head, with her mouth open. I freaked, but she stopped after about five minutes, and seemed fine since. I assumed at that point that she had gotten some substrate in her mouth, or something.



Last night two snakes were dead, and the third was in obvious pain. I felt so helpless. I couldn't think what to do for him. I put him in a pillowcase and set him outside in a snowdrift.



What are the odds of all three snakes dying like that in one day?? IOther then descibed above, I have seen no symptoms of stargazing, or anything to make me think there was anything wrong.



Like I said, all my colubrids seem OK so far, but this is scary as hell for me. I really can't afford to have necropsies done on these snakes. I am looking into sending tissue samples to a university. It all just happened so fast.

[ Show Entire Thread ]