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ok, just lost a baby

ChaosCat

ChaosCat

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This is the first time I've ever lost a baby snake. I was downstairs cleaning, and heard this thwapping noise. Traced it down to one of the 2004 het. blizzard babies, whipping around in its container.

I open its container, and the poor little thing is flipping about with its mouth open. There was this yellow-green pus like stuff coming out of its glottis, so I tried to get some of it out-put what I could collect in a specimen bag.

While I was trying to help it, the little one died. :( I'm not sure what happened or why!

The body is in the fridge until monday, when I can drop it off at the vet's for a necropsy. All the other baby corns appear fine (then again, this one was fine and even shed today!) but I'll be keeping a close eye on them. No other snakes are showing any signs of illness.

Anyone had something like this happen?
 
i hade a hatchling who wouldnt eat he survived for a long while. He died in the same way it was awful it was contorted in pain and there was sticky goo in its mouth. Please post your findings i would be interested to know.

p.s im really sorry the little dude died
 
Yeah, I too...will be interested in what happened. That's just odd!

Sorry about your loss and good luck with the rest of the clutch.

Quigs
 
I had an adult come to me who came down with a respiratory infection post-shipping (shipping stress induced, I trust the person who sent it to me and it was fine before). This boy died (despite treatment) in the same manner you described. He flung himself around the cage, spewing whitish pus due to blockage of his trachea by the thick stuff. I caught him, milked the exudate out of his trachea and he calmed down. He did the same thing an hour later and I was unable to get to him in time. He thrashed, flipped over, and died.

:(

Hope the necropsy gives you some answers.
 
Funny thing is, this hatchling was born here. He's been a great eater (I'm looking at his chart right now) with no regurges, odd poops, or missed sheds. There were NO symptoms until yesterday's seizure activity.

All the other hatchlings ate tonight, none of them are showing any symptoms.
 
I am very sorry to hear about your bizaar loss. I, too, hope the necropsy gives you some answers and good ones.

Best of luck.
 
I have to agree that that is strange... Sry about your loss. I wonder if there's anything we could do to prevent this illness???
 
Just out of curiosity CC,

Did the snake have a pine green colored smear/streak under the belly scales?
 
Sorry about your loss. Hope that you get answers soon. And that your other littles ones stay healthy.
 
sorry to read about the loss. any results of the necropsy yet? i'm interested in doing research on whatever it died from.

-J
 
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