Uhh, I think I need help.

[WifeOfSlasher]

Search redtailboa for "toxic rats". I can link from my phone or see any signatures to get to the blog entry.

[Skiploder]

Search redtailboa for "toxic rats". I can link from my phone or see any signatures to get to the blog entry.

Don't bother. It's a recent thread and has nothing to do with "toxins" but the supposed inability of certain boas to handle the supposed elevated fat content in certain rats. It's not the first time someone has mentioned "toxic rat syndrome". Nor that certain snakes like hypos or bccs are more susceptible. That people who are proponents of that "syndrome" also specifically go out of their way to claim that it affects boas only, and that pythons are not affected. It has never been proven and is at best, anecdotal.

What I've never seen is a link to where it has ever been proven. I've seen a bunch of ASSumptions regarding how boas somehow cannot handle the higher fat content of some lines of rats and this in turn leads to an overbloom of bacteria in the gut which leads to sepsis and death.

The OP is having issues with snakes that are not boas, which was preceded by his boa going off feed for an extended period of time. While toxic rat syndrome has never been proven, it is a misnomer at best. If has little to do with toxins and everything to do with fat content. None of it proven and all purported to affect only certain strains of boa. The OP has had his pythons die - not his boa.

Take the snake to a vet and have it examined by a qualified herp vet. If it dies before you can do that, have it necropsied.

There are some species of snake that have been PROVEN to have issues digesting mammalian lipids. These are long term cumulative issues that ultimately lead to a form of gastritis. They are not one and done feedings that result in an almost immediate death.