Quote Originally Posted by Skiploder View Post
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.
This is what the vet told me more or less, and it's a scary realization. I do take my snakes out occasionally but I will make it more of regular occurrence. it's such a waste of a loss that can't be justified. Thanks for the response, talking to someone about it definitely helps.