A 2012 female matrix that I purchased from the Tampa Repticon at the end of March was found dead today when I was checking on the animals. She refused her live rat pup on the 24th but didn't think anything of it.

She was in a shoebox tub with a hide, water bowl, crumpled newspaper, and some sphagnum moss. She was on newspaper substrate. The hot side was 89 and ambient was 78.

I found her belly up wrapped around her her hide. When I checked on her the day before yesterday she was alert and didn't look "off" at all.

I put her in a zip lock in the fridge and am going to take her for a necropsy tomorrow.

Any idea what could have happened?


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