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"California King Snake lies upside down has been getting progressively worse and will not eat looks like a snake playing dead never came across this before anyone with answers ...would be appreciated. Thanks"

I found that in the Mole & Prairie kingsnake forum. Its recent.
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This sounds like some sort of neurological ailment, like an amoebic infection of the brain ( from Understanding Reptile Parasites by Roger klingenberg, DVM)
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

But without viewing the snake it could be on its last days from something else.

When you have a lot of snakes and/or have been keeping sevral for years you see a lot of different things. This year i had a male not able to retract his hemipenis and a female which inverted her ovum after laying. Bot had their respective expelled vestiges dry up rendering them infertile.
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female which inverted her ovum after laying

Please explain how do you invert an ovum. I always thought an ovum was an unfertilized egg? Do you mean she prolapsed her ovaduct?
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>>female which inverted her ovum after laying
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>>Please explain how do you invert an ovum. I always thought an ovum was an unfertilized egg? Do you mean she prolapsed her ovaduct?
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That looks like an auto type or spell-correction error. "evert" is the correct word.

"evert: to turn outward or inside out."

>>female which inverted her ovum after laying
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>>Please explain how do you invert an ovum. I always thought an ovum was an unfertilized egg? Do you mean she prolapsed her ovaduct?
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Similarly, it's "oviduct" not ovaduct. But my spell fixer changes that a to I every time until I override it.

Thanks for the correction Terry, His post just made me chuckle a little in picturing an inverted egg. I have seen some crazy stuff happen in this hobby and it wouldn't surprise me that there actually was one. The first that comes to mind was the post of see-through eggs last year.
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My bad. Your right. Prolapsed her oviduct.
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1) Do you beleive what you observe or observe what you beleive?

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