Hello all, I have been looking everywhere and calling everywhere trying to figure out what went wrong with my burmese python. He seemed to be fine until yesterday when I picked him up and his throat and back of head seemed to be swollen. Also, the lower half of his body seemed to be lifeless, like he couldn't control it(it was completely limp). He appeared to use the bathroom on my boyfriend's arm, so I put him back in his cage. About 10 minutes later, he began making these horrible screeching noises and twisting around the cage with his mouth open and spitting up a clear liquid. I took him out(he lives with another python) and his head seemed lifeless, but his body was still moving for a while. I tried calling several emergency vets(which were very far away so I couldn't get there in time), but he died soon after I made arrangements to bring him in(at 1:00 in the morning also). Now I am very sad, but also want to prevent this from happening to my other baby. The other one seems to be fine, but I am not sure because it happened so fast with the other one. Some info on their living conditions: a big cage, about 3 feet square wide, and about 4 feet tall cage made of wood with mesh around the outside, and a heat lamp with a red bulb, and a heat rock, a big bowl of water for soaking in, and fake plants and a log tunnel for hiding under. he was fed frozen rats once a week. I had recently moved him from another smaller cage at my apartment to my boyfriend's to live with our other snake, and his house is a little bit cooler than my apartment. i figured the temperature was okay because he didn't have any eating problems, but i dont really know. maybe i should put plexiglass aroud the tank because it is such an open area...maybe a draft could have gotten in. i dont know if he liked his new cage because he stopped moving as much as he did when he lived at my place. i just want to correct this ASAP because i dont want my other baby to die. Anyone ever experienced anything like this or can suggest what might have been the problem? Thanks for reading this loooonnnng message...

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