First off, I am very sorry to hear of your losses.Originally Posted by SnowShredder
However, a sick snake coming into your collection wouldn't just BAM kill 5 snakes all at one time. I'm not super well-versed in snake diseases but I honestly can't think of one that would wipe that many out all around the same time. I would guess it's something environmental at this point.
They died in a matter of days, you say. How many days from first death to last?
How were your temps?
What were the snakes housed in?
What were you using for heating?
What thermoSTAT were you using to control the heating?
What thermoMETER were you using to measure temps?
How many snakes do you have?
What species of snakes do you have?
What was the new addition?
Did the new addition display any strange symptoms, other than being jumpy (being jumpy is typical of a snake that just underwent a major upheaval in it's living arrangements)?
Have you recently had a mite infestation?
Have you burned any incense inside?
Have you used any hairspray, perfume, cologne, etc recently?
Did you bomb your house for fleas recently? (if you have a furry animal?)
Did you spray for ants or othe flying insects recently?
Did you spray Provent-A-Mite directly into the air in your reptile room recently?
ANYTHING you can think of that would be off?
All of these questions need to be answered but most importantly you need to have a necropsy done on each and every single one of those dead snakes.
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