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My 10ft albimo just passed today, she quit eating about a month and a half ago and like she normaly does during this time of year, but my reason for posting is i don't know what to do with the body. I have had her for 3 years and the guy befor me had he for 8 and he didn't know how old she was is there any way ii can find that out?

When my albino burm died I preserved the skin and kept the skull to make a skull mount. I never got around to making the mount but I still have the preserved skin. In may sound grotesque but spending so much time with him after death actually brought a lot of closure to the whole ordeal.

Terry

Sorry to hear that sad news. Personally, I would go for a drive somewhere suitable and bury it out in nature that way. Or if you have your own yard and plan to stay there a good while, do it there.

On another note, the snake sounds like a definite male to me, being that it was at least 11 years old and only ten feet long.

regards, ~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

if you go to taxidermy websites like taxidermy.net you can sell the whole animal frozen. may will buy it.
adam jeffery
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" a.k.a. farfrumugen "
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

In regards to aging:

With wild animals at a latitude with seasonal variation it is possible to get an age by looking at the cross-section of a small bone and counting the annual growth rings just like you might on a tree. On an animal that size probably a vertebrae from the tail would work. I could go into specifics on how to do this, you would need a microscope for starters, BUT since it is a captive animal I find it unlikely that any growth rings would correspond neatly with years. I'm unaware of a definitive way to get an age on a captive snake.