Quote Originally Posted by MarkS View Post
Yeah, actually I have. I lost a number of baby corn snakes 15 or so years ago when I was keeping them on sand. Upon their deaths, they were necropsied and were found to be packed with sand.

Most vets are dog and cat Dr's and few of them even have any experience with reptiles and those that do generally haven't seen many cases so it's not surprising that they haven't seen it. But yes, it does happen.
Our vet is exotics only. She services the local zoos, several the local wildlife rehab centers and a two local reptile stores............

So I'll chalk death due to sand impaction as verifiable.............