One of my biggest fears may be coming true and I'm scared to death for my snakes. When we moved to a new apartment in August, we lost our male corn snake. We are not sure what killed him. We froze his body and I went on caring for my collection as normal. I have not added any new snakes since May of 2011 (from my sister who's collection is clean) Everyone is eating normally, has fresh water and is cleaned on a weekly basis (or more often if someone defecates).

In September I lost Ness, the normal granite baby from Clutch #1 from this season. You may or may not remember her. She was the baby that hatched out of the split egg. She was eating normally and shedding. I fed her on a Tuesday and by Thursday I found her dead in her tub. Froze her body and decided to put my collection on lock down. No snakes in, no snakes out until I could figure this out. No snakes were showing any signs of illness at this point. This month, clutch #2 was still holding out on feeding (at this point, its been a month since they hatched. And they hatched out small at 50g a piece) I decided to assist feed the two spinners as they were the smallest. I have experience with assist feeding and only just barely put the mouse pinkies in their mouths. The male spinner is doing fine and has eaten on his own since. The female spinner died a day later. Out of that clutch, the spinner male has taken two meals (one assist, one on his own) and the normal female has taken one on her own. The spider and pinstripe have not eaten yet. I went to check on them tonight and found the pinstripe acting strangely. She is being housed with her clutch mates and I have isolated her in a 10g tank. The other 3 are doing fine and do not appear to have any signs of illness.

Here is a video I took of the pinstripe. She has lost 11g since hatching in the beginning of September. As of yesterday, she did not act like this.