Why Did My Ball Pythons Die?

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Can you post a pictures of the enclosure?

And than describe how you kept them? (temps humidity, enclosure size, thermostat used, thermometer used, hide used, substrate used etc). How much they weigh when purchased, how long they remained without food, etc

Also can you explain why you still have not had a necropsy done because if you keep them PERFECTLY than obviously you should want to know what is going on when 1 than 2 died? in such little amount of time, I know I would.

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Originally Posted by Slurp

I fell asleep and rolled over on her.

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That much was apparent from your previous post. My question was why and how that was allowed to occur. If you're tired or sleepy or just not interested in paying attention to the snake, it's time to put it back in its enclosure. Even apart from suffocation/crush injury possibilities, you were creating an escape opportunity, which was irresponsible at best.

As others have said, you keep saying your husbandry was perfect, but you're not providing any actual data. Nobody can help you without real knowledge of your setup. Also, did you clean & disinfect the enclosure you were using before getting a new snake? If the first one was sick, it could have left behind whatever was making it sick, and as soon as you put a new animal in that cage, boom, new infection. Without knowing what you actually did, though, all anyone here can do is speculate.

Yea it all just doesn't seem to add up. Post the info so we can possibly help.

Seeing all 3 posts now and piecing it all together I'm curious about the husbandry myself as well as where the particular animals were purchased whether a breeder or a big box store.


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Was the snake that just passed away using same cage, decorations, hides, anything that the one previous passed away was using? If so and you did not properly clean everything the first one may of had something that killed this one as well.

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I'm very sorry to hear about your snakes. :(
My first thought is that if the same housing was used for each of these snakes then there could be something wrong with the cleaning and maintenance. Maybe it is contaminated with something and/or maybe it wasn't cleaned properly after losing a snake. I'm grasping a straws here, in your mind you will be able to sort through this and figure out what went wrong. Review all you've read on proper care and read other sources of this info to help you figure it out. It will give you some peace. Did you buy them all from the same breeder? There are so many factors to consider here to determine why this happened.
I spend about 2 months reading about keeping a BP and I read every day before I bought my snake. I know there is a lot of conflicting information out there. Better judgement must prevail in the end.