My snakes died.... AND PICS OF MY FUCKED UP HAND!!!
 

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 ass 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 ass 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.

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that sucks. got any pics?

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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.

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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.

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Hotrex has .....


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

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

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

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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!"

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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 :(

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

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I just let go my California king snake into the mountains a few days ago. Plenty of water and food out there, plus I always gave her live food. Hopefully the training will come into play in the wild. Figured it was better than just giving her to someone else since I no longer wanted her. 6 years in a cage.. Was like looking at someone who just got outta prison.

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Bummer

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it was probably a poison they got into in the backyard. it has to be something from the instide out. antifreeze works that way on cats and dogs. you dont catch it till its too late. if you still have any of the bodys and the money take them to a vet and have a animal autopsy (its called a necropsy) to find out the exact reason. if it was a virus or deaese you dont want your living snake to die of the same thing.


thats the WORST thing you could have done for that snake letting it go. even if you have feed it live food all its life it still doesnt have the resources to make it in the wild. there are snake rescues for just that reason....but i understand you wanted it to have a better life. you tried.

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Ahhh that sucks man. I was disappointed to see my puppy shitting out 8" long worms, but at least that's not really a big deal. Sucks man, I have no idea what they could have done.

Google says bloating is usually the result of a parasite peircing through it's organs and causing internal bleeding. Says it doesn't happen overnight but reptiles aren't great at showing symptoms until it's too late. It also could be a bacterial or viral infection that could have easily been passed to your other snakes.

I guess you already threw their remains out but if you have any left, should take it to a vet and see what it was, so you know what to clean before you get another one, if you do.

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the reason we had them in the same tank was becuase if winter downsizing. its much easier to keep them together and all but the burmese were together for years before this. i told my dad it wasnt smart to put the burmese with the others, especially after the redtail that we got with the burmese died for no reason. but that was month ago and it seemed fine. he didnt listen. we barely even move the lawn cuz in the winter the lawn dies and in the summer it dies so no chemicals there. and if it was that, it would have happened long before this becuase this is a daily thing aking them out and letting them roam around. anytime its warm and sunny they are outside for a while. im going to a local herp exprt to talk to him today. i dont have the bodies but he hopefully will know anyways. as for the respiratory infections and mouth rot and mites, i have been in this for a while so i have seen all of that and treated it many times on rescue snakes, but this just doesnt make sense.

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haha :1

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your joking right obviously you want to be banned..sorry to hear about your snakes man hopfully you find out wat the cause was...

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you are a ------- retard. go chug bleach and get the ---- off this site you piece of ----, maybe if you take a break from having all those cocks in your ass you would show some compassion for a fellow member dicktree :8

PS. Post pics of your car you ------- pos. :X

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---- off dick beater. now to top off the week, im in the er right now. i was filling a fish tank to check for leaks and it broke and like a dumbass i tried to catch it before it broke. damn near chopped off the two middle fingers on my left hand. i havent gotten the xrays or stitches yet so ill try to snap some pics. they think im going into shock. my hand is numb, and cold and im freezing and shaking. and sweating and breathing real fast. ---- this week. ---- this month, ---- redboy. i call admins for a ban.

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if i was an admin i would grant that wish but ---- it weres abaz of black si when ya need em hahahaha...well hopfully you dont loos your fingers man if you kill the nerves or the flesh then it wont heal..

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of i have some badass before pics now. this is gross. they are loading me up on lydocaine. had 4 shots in the hand already. i want them to just knock me out before they stich these fuckers up. im going to have to have surgery on my hand too.

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oh my god this is going to hurt so bad. they cant give me any more of that stuff, plus the shot in the ass they gave me. thats 5 shot in like half an hour. no tendons for me.

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how big is your lawn to be letting them roam around?

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Your not supposed to let your snakes roam in the yard. Thats a great way to get tick and mites and those things equal infections and death. Can't account for the quick death. Sounds like someone injected those bitches with straight acid. Death is usually a slow and systematic process no matter what animal/organism it happens to. I can't see something this extreme happening that quickly....

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just got out of the er a couple minutes ago. gotta go see a hand surgeon tomorrow morning, and get my hand operated on. ill post pics of my hand when i get home.

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100% your fault
you should have never had 4 snakes in 1 setup
the rule is 1setup=1 snake
do you realize snakes are solitary animals by nature?

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sometimes grass gets nasty after the winter coming out of dormant. it itself would be toxic i think

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reasons why animals should be left in the wild...
You should shoot your pets more often 8)

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Tarantulas are the same way, 1 per enclosure. It's possible to have a communal setup, but not recommended because there's a chance they'll eat each other.

Another good reason is to keep diseases/infections separate. In this case if they were separated only 1 might have died, assuming they did catch something. Do you feed them things from outside? It's a good way for harmful shiz to be passed to them. It's recommended you don't feed tarants wild-caught creatures just because they can catch diseases from them, and I know this rule applies to other animals.

Good luck on finding out what happened. I'm still betting on a parasite or infection...unless you know someone that might have poisoned them. There's a lot of living ----, like bacteria, that like to expel gasses...which would possibly explain the bloating.

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i dont really know why they died. i know one snake one enclosure but it was my dads genious idea to put them all in the same tank. i know its our fault and all that but i wanna know why they died in the first place.

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sucks about your snakes man, but you arent supposed to let them outside i dont think.


anyways, wheres the pics of your mangled ass fingers, prove its bad enough to whine about.

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ok its taking me forever to type with one hand so its gunna be short. i had 6 shots of lydocaine in the hand and a shot of morphine in the ass and it still hurt like a ----------er. i have 6 stitches in my middle finger and 4 in my ring finger all on my left hand. and both fingers have severed tendons so i cant feel them at all above the cuts. heres some pics.

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/5944/pic0105qy8.jpg
look at the hole in my finger.

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4071/pic0100fl4.jpg

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/598/pic0104ru8.jpg
the swelled lumps are where they gave me the shots in my hand.

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I've done worse when i smashed my hand with a pick-ax, but still doesn't look fun. I have about 5000000000 bone fragments in the tip of my left ring finger

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i have about the same amount in my face

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damn that looks pretty shitty..

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now thats how you cut a hand. pretty gross dude. hope they gave you some good meds.

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they gave me some vicoden and some antibiotic, its not working too well......

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Man what a shitty day! sorry to hear about the snakes and you're hand thats no fun.

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They cant make it in the wild? That makes no sense.