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rosspadilla Apr 30, 2012 01:21 AM

"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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pyromaniac Apr 30, 2012 05:59 PM

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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Bluerosy Apr 30, 2012 07:54 PM

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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KcTrader Apr 30, 2012 09:40 PM

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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rtdunham Apr 30, 2012 10:32 PM

>>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."

rtdunham Apr 30, 2012 10:35 PM

>>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.

KcTrader May 01, 2012 05:56 AM

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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Bluerosy May 01, 2012 11:45 AM

My bad. Your right. Prolapsed her oviduct.
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