Thinking about a BRB - Advice?

[arpowell]

Hey everyone, I wanted to give you all a very sad update. I picked up the snake almost two weeks ago, and everything seemed to be going great, but when I checked on him this morning I found he'd passed during the night. I suppose I just wanted to share with people who will understand what I'm feeling right now and see if you all could give me any insight into what might have happened.

All the parameters were the same as when I posted looking for advice here, and I had the tub set up for over a month before I got him so everything was steady. 85 degree hotspot with heat mat, ambient around 75, constant humidity in the high 90s.

Everything seemed to be going very well. He was in blue when I picked him up, and after about a week he gave me a perfect shed. It was textbook perfect, all in one piece, eye caps and tail tip and everything. I was obviously really encouraged by this and took it as a sign everything was going well. I tried to feed him a few days later, and he wasn't interested - but the seller had told me he'd been a bit reluctant to switch to f/t and had eaten earlier in the week before I got him, so I wasn't overly concerned and I just assumed he needed more time to settle in. I knew BRBs often like to stay hidden, and that was the case with him - I never noticed him acting agitated or roaming around his enclosure during the day, or doing any behaviors that would have raised red flags with me.

I'm honestly trying to look for anything that seemed off with him, but genuinely nothing ever did. Yesterday he seemed absolutely fine; this morning he was gone. I'm at a total loss for what I did wrong - aside from him not showing an interest in food (and, since I didn't even have him for two weeks, I'd only ever offered once), everything seemed perfect. My only guess is that he had some sickness or weakness that only showed up once his little system was compromised with the stress of moving to a new home. The suddenness with which he crashed makes me think it wasn't anything I did, but it's hard not to blame yourself when these things happen.