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I actually found out about this a couple of nights ago but have just now got around to telling you guys.

As usual I fed my snakes Sunday evening.
Everyone ate as they should.
Well, while I checked on everyone Wednesday night I found THE stripe cream dead.
It looked as if the mouse somehow either didn't make it all the way down or she tried to regurge and it didn't make it all the way out. Not sure but there was a bulge about a third of the way down and it was darker green then the usualy green you would see when a snake dies.
It really sucks. She was what I considered the perfect example of a stripe creamsicle.
All the other snakes are perfectly fine.
I can't really afford a necropsy right now so I guess I will never know what happened.
say good bye to the best stripe cream I've produced so far.....damnit

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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Oh no!

What stunning snake - and what a terrible loss
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jimmy- i'm so sorry.... you can keep the female i was gonna take if you want....
BUT something kinda sorta the same happened to a snake on another site... the mouse had i guess somehow eaten or was wrapped in a metal- the snake ate it and the metal got stuck in the snakes throat... did you check the snakes throat to see maybe if some metal got into it?? I'm going to e-mail you the web address of the post.... i think if i put it on here it would be jacked up....

~kin
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Corns, Creamsicles, A Black Rat, A pair of Leucistic Black Rat X Leucistic Texas Rat Intergrades, Thayeri, Cal Kings, A Jungle Corn, Ball Pythons, Leopard Geckos, Green Anoles, 2 Snapping Turtles, an Eastern Box Turtle, a Bearded Dragon, an Adult Rescue Iguana, and A Baby Iguana

Sorry for your loss Jimmy. That really does suck big time! It's never easy losing one of our pets but when it happens to such a stunning animal it really pains us that much more
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Ken Roshak
BlackSwampSerpents@toast.net

That definitely was the most shocking example of a creamsicle I've ever seen. Roll up your sleeves and start making another one. Good luck. Sorry for your tragic loss.

Don
South Mountain Reptiles

Oh dang Jimmy.. That is an owie for sure.. I am with Don on this one... Roll them sleeves up and try again.. That indeed is/was one of the collest striped creams I have even seen..

Regards..> Tim of T and J

That's the crappy part of this hobby.
Really sucks when you lose a nice one.
Sorry to hear of the loss.

the green darker than usual......the green spot is the gall bladder, after death it just eats away at the flesh and all and it rots like fast...one of the first things to rot out and the green spots grows....

..bulge?.......third way down.?........bacteria I bet..........

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>>the green darker than usual......the green spot is the gall bladder, after death it just eats away at the flesh and all and it rots like fast...one of the first things to rot out and the green spots grows....
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>>..bulge?.......third way down.?........bacteria I bet..........
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Well, yeah it could be worse, could have been the parents.
Bacterial huh?
care to elaborate a little more?
You think maybe some form of infection?
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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not infection
if they get a ball in the gut and it shouldn't be there, could be bacteria blooming....stomach probably forms all kinds of coatings and junk in the lining to try and protect itself...anyways...bacteria will bloom and grow in number....snake may regurge and look almost ok....then you feed and it blooms again...snake gets thinner and thinner till it finally gets cured or dies...
some die really quickly and some will live like this for years .
Nutri-Bac doesn't work for this...you need to kill all the bacteria first.....antibiotics...strong ones...

I am not saying this is what happened....I just remember (didn't go back to top post ),,,a lump? being mentioned....

........good luck.....
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two digit morphs...who woulda thunk it.......

Jimmy Im sorry for your loss that stripe was a screamer.... all of your cream stripes are screamers. again sorry for your loss.
Tom

She was a looker please help make more

>>I still have the parents so I will definitely make more. Hopefully I will get a few more examples like her. Problem is I never get to keep any of them because they are my best sellers.
You can bet I will definitely hold back the best female, or two, next season no matter what.
I also have a nice motley female that the male stripe sired so I will breed him back to her as well and see if I get a few stripes from that pairing.

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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Jimmy....you will have to let us know when you breed more...personally, i would LOVE to get on the list to buy one of those!!
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Sorry to hear that,Jimmy Jeff

jimmy-
where do you get your mice/?
i get mine from rodentpro and when i fed a large pinky/small fuzzy to my year old cal king, he died too.... i dunno if it was from his kink or what... i doubt it was from his kink b/c he had lived a year with no troubles... its so weird!!! he even still had the lump from eating a few days ago now i'm getting worried about the rest of my collection...

~kin
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Hey Kin,
sorry to hear about your loss too. A lot of times animals that have kinks have other issues. I had a jungle corn that hatched with an "unfinished" belly. She healed after hatching, but had a small lump/kink as well. After a year, she developed an enlarged heart. I had to put her down. Who knows what other issues are there, when a snake is born deformed.
Take care
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"The more things change, the more they remain Insane"

It's always rough when a snake dies without any apparent reason...especially a snake as nice as that one.

Sorry to hear about that Jimmy,

Tim

that is a true tragedy. I am real sorry. That snake was the best looking stripe cream that I have Ever seen!
I am Sorry Jimmy!
Its such a horrible thing to find any of your snakes dead in the cage, especially with no explaination.
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"The more things change, the more they remain Insane"

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Thanks for reading.
Big Tom

www.HerpZillA.com

>>but it was some pretty damn sorry cornsnake news.

thanks for the kind words everyone
Time to make more!!!!!!!

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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Sorry to hear that Jimmy. It's never easy losing a snake, especially not knowing what really caused it.
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Matt Kauffman

Wow Jimmy,
Man I can't begin to tell you how sorry I am to hear that.
You know I've ALWAYS been partial to that Striped Cream and loved to see it everytime you posted it. It definatly was the BEST Striped cream I have ever seen.

Sorry about your loss my friend.
Walter

I'm really sorry about that.
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