RotaryGeek

Two days ago they were perfectly fine. We had them outside and let them roam around the lawn for a while and put them back. My dad filled there water dish and took off in a hurry. This morning i wake up to my house smelling like death. Im looking around and can't find anything dead. I thought maybe i had a jumper out of one of my fish tanks so im looking around there. Then my girlfriend comes over and smells it from the start of my driveway. She just happens to mention maybe its the snakes. So we go and look. Sure enough, 3 out of the 4 in one tank are dead. Bloated dead. Like when i touched them to see if they were alive, one popped and spilled its guts. Literally. It was the worse smell i have ever smelled. And believe me, i have smelled blood and ---- on a womans breath before. Im ready to leave the house for work, and in uniform, but i gotta get these snakes out first. So i go get my paint respirator and some gloves and start to pull out the snakes and they feel like a inner tube that doesn't have enough air in it. They were just jelly. All in a day or two TOPS.... One (my small burmese) was still alive but acting extremly wierd, like cranking his neck over and flipping upside down. Snakes are never supposed to flip upside down. So after getting out the dead snakes (got guts all over my uniform when one of them split open on me before it made it to the trash bag), i got the living one out and bagged that one seperatly. I took it out into the county and popped one into its head (trust ole' hipoint 9mm ftw here) first shot. So in total i lost 3 columbian red tail boas at about $200 a pop and a $350 burmese python today. My giant albino (that was not in the same tank, he just roams around the room) is perfectly fine, but i quarentined him in a seperate room anyways. I los almost a grand in snakes today. And i was late for work, and had to work utility (READ: bitch/gopher on a mile wide unit) so i got wore the ---- out today. About the worst day i have had in a really long *** time. I think it was the burmese who brought in a desease and it killed my other snakes. Nothing else in my opinion could have killed 3 snakes like this in so short a time. They were coiled exactly like they are when they are basking so it wasn't like one of them got a case of the *** and decided to kill the others. My dad thinks it is becuase when he filled the water bowl up he put too much in and it poured out when the snakes crawled into it and maybe shorted out the hotrock in the tank. But that still wouldn't explain why the burmese lived and how they got so disgustingly bloated so quickly. Just kinda ranting on a shitty day though.

D15Bastard

that sucks. got any pics?

RotaryGeek

I didn't take any of the afters, but i might do a search for some of the other threads i have posted pics of them in before.

con

I have heard of fish getting shocked from cracked heaters and turning kinda white, skin falling off, dieing....................maybe the hotrock thing is right, I dont know. Sucks tough.

USS

Hotrex has .....


I'd look in your back yard to see if there's anything toxic back there they got into.

88dx

holy ---- no one really read all that did they

TurboG

awww man, that sucks. Call the vet or petshop and ask around. there must be someone that would know this information somewhere. I feel for you man

Bone1

RG, I'll ask the 19 yo skinny freaky chic, she sells snakes. Someone brought her a snake that had a respritory infection and a thing called mouth rot. It was infested with mites,

"it took everything I had to not kill the guy, this is like, the 3rd rescue case I've taken in, in 2 weeks!"

buk9tp

are you on faunaclassifieds.com? id start there...

i never heard of a hotrock shorting out from that little water.... lol.. unless you have a cdm model..

but on the otherhand i dont remember any disease that can kill a snake that quickly
especially not without symptoms first...


why do you have the snakes together in the same tank

AgentMurdoc

that sucks to read while eating an ice cream cone. my ice cream is jelly.