My bp died!

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They called me back 2 weeks later (just the other day) and told me his cultures came back all normal. There was absolutely no sign of IBD. Wth killed my buddy??? Their husbandry was a lil more humid because Vega went through a shed but Dexter stayed in the drier part and I specifically asked the vet who did the physical exam if he showed any signs of a RI... nothing.
Vega is alone, I had to take all their 'furniture' out until I got his results back but kept her warm and cozy.. we moved, she just went through a shed. Now she's not wanting to eat. It is the starts of cold weather so it could be a number of things. My bps are and were very social, nothing has changed with Vega's want for love but I'm worried about her because she's not eating and that's how it began with Dexter! Any thoughts? Please someone tell me they had some kinda problem like this! Thank you!!

What exactly did they check in the necropsy? It seems odd for me to hear a vet doing a culture on a single dead snake. From the symptoms you describe, it doesn't sound like a case of IBD, though it can manifest atypically. It would still be pretty likely to observe inclusion bodies in for example, the liver if the disease was advanced enough to kill the snake. As much as many of us (myself included) fear IBD, it is pretty rare to see snakes die from it. Ophidian paramyxovirus would be more likely, if the culprit were a pathogen, though I would expect your other BP to have also been exposed (no guarantee there however).

Given your description, it sounds like an obstruction to me, but you would expect that to be fairly obvious from a necropsy.