Massive heat spike, one snake lost, one snake alive, need input...

So sorry for your loss. I hope your lesser makes a full recovery.

I don't know why it would be illegal to bury your dead pet, but Cali is strange.
Sorry to hear about all of this.
Glad your female is doing good. 600 grams is nice and healthy for a '10!

most (I want to say all but am not 100% sure) proportional units use a triac controller it is the heart of the units. Basically they are all the same, differing setting functions and such but all the same.

I understand how upsetting this is, did your unit fail or something else?

Maybe this will help

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Thank you everyone for your continued support, I really appreciate it.

It was something else...I have the whole story on Darwin's Rainbow Bridge thread, it's linked in my original post...it's too hard and too much to type out again..

So just an update: I got the results of the blood work back today, and the Vet didn't say anything about needing a fluid treatment so that is good news. Diedra's white blood cell count was high, and she had more some sort of acid or something maybe lactic acid which she said is normal after enduring heat. She said if I continue to soak her daily and pending her eating her next meal that we might not need antibiotics. I'm going to take her back in in 2-3 weeks so they can run the blood work again and see if she's making progress in terms of her white blood cells otherwise we might have to start antibiotics.

I can't wait for feeding day, tomorrow will be 7 days since her last meal, but I almost want to wait until Friday so give her time to rest more and get even hungrier, I am terrified she might not eat, which would be the first time she refused since I've had her. Oh well. Thanks to those who are following her progress, I'll update once I try to feed. Have a good day.

So, just an update...
It has been 9 days since Diedra's last meal, which was a 70 gram pre-killed small rat, and was 2 days before the incident.
Today, she took down a 54 gram p/k small rat, and I have never been happier. This was the day I have been dreading since last week, but fortunately she took it down. She wasn't as ravenous as usual, but her previous meal was the largest she's ever eaten, so I'm assuming she just wasn't starving. After a few minutes of zombie-dancing, WHAM! Great news, just thought I'd share. Thanks again to everyone that has been helping me through this, I really appreciate it.

I'm so glad she ate! This whole ordeal must have been just terrible :( Hopefully Diedra keeps eating and acting like normal!

That is really great news. Often after some sort of trama if the seem ok and eat on their own usually they are out of the worst of it!

best wishes Alex

Regarding your concern about her change in behavior being brain damage, my girl was extremely head shy at first, then she had a few bad sheds and couldn't get it off her face, so I eventually wound up carefully helping her out. By the time I decided to intervene, she'd been struggling with it for a few days and seemed to be willing to tolerate me by her face as long as it would help.

I'm not positive this is the case, but it seems like if they're in discomfort, they're a lot more tolerant of help.

I have a rescue from a while back that had deer ticks. Long story there but it took 3 hours to get them all off and alcohol and ointment them. Long story short she will to this day over a year later allow me to do almost anything to her with out pulling away (even open her mouth) but anyone else there is no way she will allow anybody near her head and balls up half the time.

It is amazing how much they take in. I don't know what to call it but there is a point when they no longer treat you like a preditor but more like a post or something. Trust for lack of anything better.

It could be nothing more than a acceptance that you are not going to eat her. lets hope!