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I've raised a pair of gray banded kings for the last two years. They've never given me a problem, rarely ever missed a meal. They were between 2 and 3 feet long. I came home from work today to find not one, but both died! Both snakes were still warm. I've had healthy snakes die out of the blue before, but to have both of my gray banded's die at the exact same time is just mind blowing. The temps were perfect, they weren't impacted, there was no blood or regurge or anything else to be found in their cages. I am completely baffled on this one. I'm truly depressed after this.

I was so excited to breed them next year, my female was absolutely stunning!

The best way to know what happened is to take one or both of them in for a necropsy. Anything else would be a guess, might be an educated guess, but still a far cry from knowing what it was.

Some guesses:

environmental - heat tape issue?
tainted food items?
an infection that just happened to kill them both at the same time?

So I would recomend you store them in a cool ice chest (do not freeze them) and contact a vet to find out what it was, they may send them off for work or they may do it in house... either way that is the only way to know. A recent necropsy I did was sent off and it cost $175 to have it sent off.

Lance
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