Cause of death: fatty/ failed liver

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Thank you very much. I just needed to know what the necropsy unveiled since nothing was obviously wrong. I will look into that thread since this has had me thinking a lot about their diet.

Fatty liver is , for lack of a better word, a "lifestyle" disease.

Sadly, we tell people to feed X% of the body mass every X days and feed one type of prey item only.

We do not take into account the amount of activity that wild snakes engage in with respects to hunting, denning. mating, escaping fires, predators, etc.and compare it to the lack of inactivity in the tub.

...and we do not take into account variety in their diet.

...I think we are all guilty of it to a certain degree and that we should openly discussing what steps we should take to address it.

I've lost snakes to "lifestyle" disease...a lot of other people have but do not know it because they do not perform necropsies.