Bad owner (me), Poor care, hoping for the best...

[SquamishSerpents]

UGH SPEAKING OF STINK BOMB! Don't worry, you're not the only one who has had a rodent go sour...

This is literally the worst thing...After I feed all my corns, 2 days after like clockwork...... "holy Hannah Montana, all of the corn snakes took dumps!!" Colubrid poop STINKS worse than ball python poop. So the day after feeding the corns, I go in the snake room. It was not "dump day" yet, but a lot of the ball pythons had pooped. So it stank and I cleaned them all up.

I could still smell something funny though when I was done cleaning. I went through every single corn snake bin looking for poop. Nothing. So I just assumed the odor would disappear now that everything had been cleaned up.

Went back in the next morning and nothing was amiss, there was a faint smell because some of the corns HAD took their clockwork dumps by now, but I scooped it up quickly and that was that.

Well about 5 days after THAT (so....approx a week maybe slightly longer, after I had fed everyone) I was doing a big excavation of some of the corn bins and swapping out substrate. I had been using Sani-Chips for some of the corns. I like them because they are semi-clumping so taking out poop is easy, and they have a nice smell and are great at cutting down on odor. Well I am NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER AGAIN using Sani-Chips!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As I was scooping substrate out of one of the bins I saw something moving. Upon closer inspection, there were many things, wriggling. There were maggots of some sort buried under an inch or two of substrate!!!!!!!!!! I LOST IT. Shrieked, the whole 9 yards. As it turns out, no matter how well I checked all the bins (multiple times, mind you) the "stink bomb" had been buried underneath the Sani-Chips, attracted maggots of some sort, and they were all just wiggling around like some horror movie.

The weird part? That bin did not even smell AT ALL.

Seriously F My Life. I almost threw up. Worst, most disgusting thing everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

So don't feel bad.

I'm going to go vomit now just thinking about it.