Line down belly???

[bradthebanker]

I'm just going to get my male checked out that breed her I already frozen her. She has a place in my heart and can't do that to her. I get very attached to my animals in a way most people don't understand. I've erected a monument on her place in my rack to remember her. And I'm sure most of yall may think I'm crazy but I really love my animals

[Daybreaker]

I'm just going to get my male checked out that breed her I already frozen her. She has a place in my heart and can't do that to her. I get very attached to my animals in a way most people don't understand. I've erected a monument on her place in my rack to remember her. And I'm sure most of yall may think I'm crazy but I really love my animals

If you don't want to potentially loose all of your others I very much recommend a necropsy....I lost a snake very abruptly earlier this year and did a necro for the sake of my other snakes and because I felt it was the responsible thing to do. Thankfully it showed it was an isolated incident not related to husbandry and the peace of mind was tremendous: I would have preferred to lay her to rest too and give her a proper burial but I needed to look out for the well being of the rest of my collection. I would personally reconsider. Again, sorry for your loss.

[Marrissa]

If you don't want to potentially loose all of your others I very much recommend a necropsy....I lost a snake very abruptly earlier this year and did a necro for the sake of my other snakes and because I felt it was the responsible thing to do. Thankfully it showed it was an isolated incident not related to husbandry and the peace of mind was tremendous: I would have preferred to lay her to rest too and give her a proper burial but I needed to look out for the well being of the rest of my collection. I would personally reconsider. Again, sorry for your loss.

He already froze her so it's too late now. Man I'm paranoid to bring new ones in now and I only have five. Quarantine at another place for 3 months isn't an option so I have my quarantine tank in a different room and make sure different everything is used. When we get a house I want an outside shed to be the quarantine room.

OP sorry for your loss. Please don't sell anything for a while or buy anything new to make sure your current snakes are ok first.

[Drift]

I too hope that this is the end of your troubles.

I also agree that it raises some flags that this thread is about a line on her belly when the pictures provided show a snake that clearly does not look well (and I'm not just talking about the mouth).

I appreciate that you are deeply saddened by her loss, and I do believe that you would have done anything possible to save her. However, I also believe that this was not handled properly and that it exposes some aspects of your current practices that warrant genuine concern.

While I respect that you've been breeding for a year without problems, I hope you appreciate that you now have a problem, and that by acting on trust of your past experience, this problem now affects pretty well your entire collection.

Furthermore, you do not have an established relationship with a vet, and you still don't know what actually killed her, which complicates things for your other snakes if more problems arise.

I find that the wealth of knowledge available on the internet, and perhaps to some extent the anonymous hive-mind effect, has a tendency to harbour communities where a mentality that anything short of perfection is atrocious becomes zealously enforced, and we therefore have learned to take online criticism with a grain of salt, or at least justify the dismissal of advice we do not like to hear.

While I think you've witnessed some harsh lash-back in this thread, I will however mention that I've found this community to be fairly accepting of differing practices, as long as they do not pose any seriously risks to the animals or their keepers.

With that said, I hope that my comments do not come off as carrying such accusation. However, I do hope that this is a learning experience for you, and that you appreciate, recognize, and remedy the issues that are making people upset with this situation.