Lost almost everything

There's nothing I can say to fix your loss, but my thoughts are with you and your animals, Wes.

This is horrible. I am very sorry for your loss.

I have come home from a weekend away to a "disaster" but nothing as devastating as the loss of your animals.

I hope it all works out.

OMG, I'm truly sorry. What a horrible thing to come home too. One of my biggest fears is coming home and finding something terrible has happened to any of my animals. :(

That's horrible.. I'm glad it wasn't worse, like a t-stat fail. At least you still have the building and racks and there wasn't a fire or something! But I can't even begin to understand what you must be going through right now. I bet your snake room will be one of the safest ones in the country after this bad experience..

I'm so sorry to hear about this. I'm praying for your surviving ones and the eggs.

I haven't been here that long, but from day one everyone here has been more than accommodating. There were others in my life long ago that also took their own valuable time to teach me about these wonderful animals so I have felt the need to always give back in some way. SansCera's gift made me think and have started a grass-roots campaign to help Wes get back on his feet. I have sent a ton of emails and am waiting on responses from most, but I did get a commitment from Brian at BHB Reptiles to donate an animal to Wes to help him heal. Brian has been a huge help to me with my own collection and he has a humble character that isn't found much any more. Even after all these years of success, Brian's only concern is the well-being of these amazing animals. Please look him up next time you're considering a purchase...

What happened here wasn't just losing one or two snakes, what happened here was an unforeseeable tragedy. We are a community. Communities come together and help one another out when tragedy hits. With breeding season upon us, incubators full and eggs hatching, if you are willing to help Wes out, please PM me and I can arrange shipping. Wes's original post lists what he has lost.

Many thanks in advance to those who decide to donate and to all those who came before me who have given so unselfishly to this community.

- Shawn

I'm so sorry, Wes. What an awful thing to go through! My heart breaks for you and for your poor animals.

I'm not a breeder myself, so I don't have a lot of options, but I do have an adult 100% het lavender albino male (from Justin Kobylka) that I could send you, if you're interested in working with that gene. Let me know.

I wish there were words that could make this journey easier for you. :tears:

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Originally Posted by Willie76

I haven't been here that long, but from day one everyone here has been more than accommodating. There were others in my life long ago that also took their own valuable time to teach me about these wonderful animals so I have felt the need to always give back in some way. SansCera's gift made me think and have started a grass-roots campaign to help Wes get back on his feet. I have sent a ton of emails and am waiting on responses from most, but I did get a commitment from Brian at BHB Reptiles to donate an animal to Wes to help him heal. Brian has been a huge help to me with my own collection and he has a humble character that isn't found much any more. Even after all these years of success, Brian's only concern is the well-being of these amazing animals. Please look him up next time you're considering a purchase...

What happened here wasn't just losing one or two snakes, what happened here was an unforeseeable tragedy. We are a community. Communities come together and help one another out when tragedy hits. With breeding season upon us, incubators full and eggs hatching, if you are willing to help Wes out, please PM me and I can arrange shipping. Wes's original post lists what he has lost.

Many thanks in advance to those who decide to donate and to all those who came before me who have given so unselfishly to this community.

- Shawn

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Thank you so much Chris (SansCera), Shawn (Willie76) , Brian, and everyone else for their support! This is definitely one of the hardest things I have been through in a long time, but the support of you all here in this great community have made it easier to deal with. I will never forget this, and when I am able, I will pay it back 10 fold. I have never been part of a group where you have never even met the people in person but they feel like family. There is so much more I want to say but i just can't find the words... I love you all! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

I've had the same thing happen, with my AC going out and coming home to 130F temps and finding dead animals. I was lucky in that it was "just" the snake room and I only lost half a dozen animals.

Sadly I'll have to mention, if any of the surviving females breeds/was bred, you may not get viable eggs, since some of my females that survived had eggs but the babies all died in egg.

But the good news is most of mine that showed the neuro symptoms did recover and act fine after some time, so I'm hoping that anything you have left will also be okay given a bit of time.

If I can help, please let me know. Over several issues I've had, I have little to offer in the way of snakes, unfortunately. But support otherwise I can do.

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Originally Posted by wolfy-hound

I've had the same thing happen, with my AC going out and coming home to 130F temps and finding dead animals. I was lucky in that it was "just" the snake room and I only lost half a dozen animals.

Sadly I'll have to mention, if any of the surviving females breeds/was bred, you may not get viable eggs, since some of my females that survived had eggs but the babies all died in egg.

But the good news is most of mine that showed the neuro symptoms did recover and act fine after some time, so I'm hoping that anything you have left will also be okay given a bit of time.

If I can help, please let me know. Over several issues I've had, I have little to offer in the way of snakes, unfortunately. But support otherwise I can do.

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Sadly, every breed-able female I had died. The only one that was alive when I got home was the Mystic girl and she passed the next night. I watched her go, and that was probably one of the most heart wrenching things I have ever seen...

3 of the babies are still doing some corkscrewing and showing other odd behavior but seem to be getting a little better... I'm praying they pull through, but they haven't even had their first meal yet since I was waiting on one of my rat girls to give birth, and now I have no live rats...... ugh. Will hopefully be going to get some new breeder rats and a few live pinkies tomorrow afternoon.

Thank you for your support.