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So I had gotten a baby pastel ball python from my cousin in last march. He was perfectly fine and I had been feeding him every week since then, somtimes going 2 weeks before I fed him but he's been growing and appeared to be fine. I've had snakes since I was eight years so I'm no newbie to taking care of them. I had the proper heat for him, water, and bedding. This past Sunday I fed him 2 small fuzzies as I normally would and he appeared to be fine up until Tuesday, which was the last time I checked on him. Then last night, I found him dead. On Sunday I had taken him out of his small cage and put him in a community cage with a ball python I've had for 3 years, and a small, about 1 foot and a half long, baby jungle carpet diamond cross who was much skinner and had been in with my larger ball python for some time. I'm positive the food was fine, because my other two snakes were also fed and are still alive.I was wondering if anyone had any answers for me as to why my snake died, because I can't for the life of me figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Honestly your best chances to find out what went wrong were to have a proper and thorough necropsy done. If the carcass was refridgerated or frozen, this may still be a possibility.

Without any more information, we can only guess. Is there a disease present in your collection that only presented itself only after a long incubation period? Was this an individual problem like a stroke? Cancer?

I wish I could help more

Ian

I definetely don't have enough money to have a necropsy done, not to mention I buried him already, so there's probably too much decay.

As I said I really have no clue, he showed no signs of a respiratory infection, had no cysts or lumps, he looked and acted perfectly healthy up until the night I believe he died. Maybe it was one of the thigns you suggested, but he just showed no signs.

Thank you for your input though.