Well today I decided to go mist the snakes that needed to be misted, so I filled up the bottle with warm water and headed to my room.

I misted the pink toe, then moved on to the QT room. Misted my favorite Blood girl, then misted the naughty Blood. Moved over to the Burm, and I even said to myself before misting the second Blood, "I'm going to mist that one last."

Well, I opened up the tub took the Burm out and put it on its lid on top of my rat tank. The back of his head started to twitch and shake, a.k.a. head tremors. I misted his tub, then looked closely at him.

He never looked good, always skinny so I took him home from the sanctuary to try to get him to eat. He never ate anything I offered and was never interested. Never acted lethargic until I noticed him today.

His jaw was at the side, he was opening his mouth and twisting around, started getting head tremors, so I knew what I had to do. I talked to a friend of mine (BP breeder) about it while the Burm showed the symptoms and was told to do what I think is best, so I decided to euthanize him (freeze him).

I threw out his tub, threw out everything he touched, disinfected the hell out of the area his tub was place at, took a shower afterwards, and put on clean clothes. His tub was sort of close to my mean Blood, but from what I've read the only way to spread IBD is the snake gets into contact with another, you touch the snake and touch another snake without washing hands in between, and the other snake touching something the sick snake had already touched previously.

Here's a photo of him before I went to go freeze him. I only had small snack bags so I sort of had to stuff him in the bag, but he did fit pretty well in it since he was so skinny and small.


I wasn't very attached to him anyways, I just thought I could try to get this Burm to eat and it ended up having IBD. Keep in mind this snake is from the Texas seizure, so it had to have had something. I informed the sanctuary about the Burm so hopefully none of the others have it too. They said they'd check on the Burms as well.

One question, I had a UTH for heat connected to a thermostat, so would it be okay to reuse both items or would I need to completely toss everything?