Baby Pastel died

[drimet]

On monday she ate a mouse (her second meal at home, she just arrived 1 month ago, and the first two weeks she didn't eat), one day after checking her terrarium I saw that she regurgitated the mouse. After cleaning the cage and so, she seemed normal, was active, and laying on her spots.

Today (sunday) I saw that she was doing really weird movements inside her hot spot.

I wanted to check what was happening and at that time she vomit a white-ish liquid, that smelled as rotten mouse. she went outside the hot spot and continue doing that weird movements, suddenly she put herself belly up... At that moment I knew that something really bad was happening.

She stayed on that position around 1 hour, after that hour she started to move again, and she vomited again, same fluids. She calm down a little and started to breath really deep.

She stayed outside the spot in a "normal" position. After few hours I noticed that she didn't move at all, that was the moment that I opened the cage and I saw that she was dead

After this I toke her to bring her to the vet university (her vet is an exotics professor there) maybe they are interested on her body for the students and so... at least she will be useful for the science...

Anyways, cleaning the cage I found under a log a semi quite dry small mouse, I never gave her any mouse of that size... This makes me think that maybe she had digestive problems from the beginning? Or was just hurt by the regurgitation?

It seems that I'm not lucky with my guys, my other BP is fighting with an RI the last months, and now my second BP died...

Before anybody ask for it, they have two hides, one on each spot. temperatures are 91-93 on the hot spot (pad under the tank controlled by thermostat) and 76-79 on the cool side. Humidity between 50% and 65%.

[cletus]

I'm very sorry to hear this.

[Albert Clark]

Wow, so sorry for the loss of your new snake. Just a couple of questions, where did the pastel come from? Second, where did you get these mice? Curious.

[Mangiapane85]

Sorry for your loss!... did you get her from a breeder?


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[Renigaed]

Ugh that's awful, I'm so sorry to hear /:

[drimet]

Wow, so sorry for the loss of your new snake. Just a couple of questions, where did the pastel come from? Second, where did you get these mice? Curious.

The snake came from a breeder, and I use yo buy the mice from a exotics shop in my city, in packs of 25. I never had any problem with them...

[Reinz]

Sorry foryour loss. And sorry you had to watch it go through the torment of dying.

[piedlover79]

I'm so sorry to hear this. hugs

[Trisnake]

I'm so sorry for your loss It's always hard losing a pet, even worse when you have to watch it suffer...

I have to ask though, what size mice were you feeding her? And how do you thaw them?

It sounds like the mouse was rotting in her stomach before the regurge, which could be caused by several things including but not limited to feeding oversized prey, letting the mouse sit at room temp or in warm water for too long (thus allowing it to "go bad"), having it go bad then refreezing (which usually happens before you buy and is relatively out of your control), or even not thawing it enough. All of this assuming you feed f/t. It could also be caused by internal defects of the snake but that tends to be rarer than human error.

Also im confused; you found TWO regurgitated mice in her cage? One old and dried and one from last Monday?

I really am sorry for your loss and I'm sorry if the bombardment of questions takes the sensitivity out of my condolences. I think I speak for most of us when I say we're just trying to solve the puzzle of why, for the sake of the baby and to help you find peace over it, as well as to educate ourselves and any others who may find this thread in the future.