Sorry to hear about your loss. Unfortunately, these things do happen even for the most knowledgeable keepers out there.



I doubt it was the Sani-chips that led to his demise. He was probably gasping and writhing while dying and inadvertently shoved those into his mouth. I had that happen to a Tri-Color female of mine years ago, her mouth was full of rabbit pellets when she was found dead and the general consensus amongst my peers at the time.



The "clue" that this snake might not have been well to begin with is the fact that this male was 3 years old and only 55 grams; that's fairly small for a 2009, about half the size of a typical male for that age. While he could have been a slow starter, kept on a maintenance diet or something else benign, it also could be a factor in determining whether something else was wrong with him which caused him to be undersized for his age.



We lost a female Pink Pastel female that was a terrible eater her whole life and was about 3 years old when she abruptly died while weighing only about 80 grams. When I performed an autopsy on her, I found a tumor inside of her that was half the size of my thumb.



I'm willing to bet that he died of natural causes and not by anything that you did.
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