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My baby mex lined pined has all of a sudden gone stiff! I mean, it is like she has a partial paralysis or rigimortis or something. VERY ODD. She regurged the other day too. This has come about in the last 5 days or so.

Also, I have an adult king doing the same thing now.

Symptons are stiffening of the body. Snake flicks tongue etc, and is alive, but is struggling to move around. You can turn them over on their back and it takes a while for them to right themselves.

Anyone ever seen this and know what it is?

If it ain't one thing, it's another. Man...

Man that sounds grim......I think you need a vet asap. If anything dies and you have a lot of animals you had better take a snake in for necropsy to make sure you don't lose a lot of your animals. Good luck
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I am giving Flagyl to it. Hope it turns around. Always something, always.

These are often symptoms of over heating or lack of hydration i.e; drinking water. Prognosis not good... Lineaticollis in particular require little more than room temp if even that. Let us all know..