Oh Lele, so sorry to read all this this morning. I had an absolutely beautiful WC Carpet---probably the most beautiful & unusual Carpet I've ever seen---rupture a major vessel internally last year and passed very quickly. She was very healthy but just would not become receptive to males, even after *months* of thriving in captivity. She began to develop large follicles without having been mated while in my care (close to a year's time). She got so big we radiographed her to figure out what was going on. Big follicles, pre-eggs. One day she was fine, the next she was crumpled on the ground, extremely lethargic. I looked her over quickly and found very pale mucous membranes. Within an hour, she had passed. My vet/boyfriend and I necropsied her and found large amounts of free fluid that looked like blood in her abdominal cavity, surrounding a massive conglomerate of follicular tissue, which was abnormally developing. We figured something went amiss in her reproductive tract with the abnormal follicles, as she was seemingly healthy one minute and not the next, very suddenly. She was very pretty, and I hated losing her. Unfortunately I only got infertile eggs from her so her lineage & color doesn't carry on in captivity.



I found your story similar to my Carpet's. I am so sorry Luna is gone. If it helps at all, from my work with critical care cases at work, bleeding internally is a quiet and peaceful passing. I don't believe there is any pain, just a slow progession of sleepiness. I don't think Luna suffered.



My condolences,

~Kerry

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