What Hapened?!?!

[schrock_az]

our baby corn snake, which we'd only had for a couple of weeks, was fine until a few nights ago. He refused to eat. when we took a closer look at him he has strange folds of excess skin running down either side of his tail. He also had two small hard bumps on his back. I was concerned about him but decided to give it a day or two and try to feed him again. The next night my boyfriend found him dead in his water dish. I was so upset I didn't know what to do. What could have happened to him? My boyfriend wants to get another but Im afraid to until I know what went wrong with our first. Any ideas?

p.s. he was a gift and was bought from petco...could that have something to do with it?

 

[Lennycorn]

Hard to say what when wrong. Petco or any pet chain store you have to be carefull of what you buy.
The lumps??? :shrugs: tumors :shrugs: Who knows. The folded skin could be from dehydration :shrugs:. You could put the snake in the fridge until a vet can look at it. I wouldn't waste the money tho. I would think that the snake was ill before you got it. If you want another one, try looking for a local breeder and/or check out this site for one and buy one one line.
here a list of links that will help. In there somewhere is a list of breeders you can look at.
Good Luck.

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[Alien Zulu]

several of your links don't work
you have to be sure to copy the entire url not just the shortened version that the forum displays
anything up there with a ... will not work

 

[BeckyG]

I have to agree that something was probably wrong with it before you got it. The hard bumps on the back don't sound good, but I couldnt' hazard a guess as to what they were. I know it's small comfort, but I don't think you really did anything wrong. Go ahead and get another, but see if you have a herp show near you. You'll get a better snake and a better deal there.