I was just reading an article on the different types of gout in herps. I'm not an expert by all mean but someone had an experience with a very young baby ball dying of this. From what I read gout can be induced by starvation and the. Uric acid building up in there system. Depending on if they were imports or even a shady dealer this could be the reason why all of the babies started dropping. I will try and find it so that this isn't quite so vague.