Oh Heather, how very sad. I do thank you though for sharing this with our membership. It's awfully easy this time of year to get overly excited about all the egg hatching and new hatchling pictures and forget that there is sometimes a harsh side to breeding snakes. Things don't always go as planned and even when we do our best, nature sometimes has another plan. I think your sharing these pictures is a good thing for those that want to breed these snakes to see.