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[Jt balls]

Please help shed some light on y this happend to my bp? My snake has not been eating for a few months then she started to glow like she was about to become gravid! But i had not bread her because she was
Only at 1200g! Then her body went hard so i asumed she was going to slug out cz i thought she had developed eggs even thou she was not ready.So i just thought keep my eye on her. This morning said snake was dead?? She had
No signs of being ill other than not eating but ball pythons do that!! And the scene was graphic and the smell was unbearable
I just want to know y this happened and how to avoid it un future and are my other snaked in danger?? i am gutted she was a grate spider and hopping to breed her next season


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[BCS]

so she wasn't placed with a male at all? Why is her neck swollen? She wasn't in the middle of eating when this happened? I have never ever seen something like that in my life. I am guessing she prolapsed... just by the look of her tail but I am really not an expert or a vet... Sorry for your loss and hopefully someone has a better answer for you. You may never know unless you get the body examined by a vet.

[jclaiborne]

X2 on going to a vet to have a necro done if you really want to know.

[bcr229]

Put the body in the refrigerator, not the freezer, and get her to a herp vet for necropsy ASAP.

I would guess some sort of bowel obstruction that backed her up, but there is no way to know if it was from a tumor or parasites unless you have a vet take a look.

[Jt balls]

Not where local for me
To take the it to be looked at as im in the uk not many herpvets around!


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[GoingPostal]

Not where local for me
To take the it to be looked at as im in the uk not many herpvets around!


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Well what's your plan if any of your snakes get ill or have issues? Having a herp vet is pretty important if you own reptiles and plan on breeding them.

If you aren't going to have a necropsy done you can open the snake up yourself and see if you can figure out the problem, otherwise you will never know.

[Jt balls]

Spoke to a vet. And from what i told him he said its sound like a massive burst abscess! Nut take him in just to be
Sure


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[bcr229]

Well what's your plan if any of your snakes get ill or have issues? Having a herp vet is pretty important if you own reptiles and plan on breeding them.

I'm going to second this. Usually Mother Nature takes care of everything and female snakes do just fine laying on their own, but when things go wrong for the female she usually dies without prompt vet treatment.

[PitOnTheProwl]

The neck has me wondering.....
Without a vet I would be the one opening that girl up to see whats going on inside.

[M.P.C]

Thats so depressing, im sorry for your loss... what makes me most curious is whats going on with the neck area with how swollen it looks and the color change