Hard to tell why, but it does happen. Back in Nov. 2004 I bought a male albino from a very well known breeder. Things were going great eating, pooping, shedding etc... Then around March of 2005 I went down to the snake room and found him dead one morning. No warnings, no signs of illness. It sucks, it happens. He had already started to bloat so I didn't take him for a necropsy.

I did contact the breeder for advice, and let him know that I wasn't looking for anything other than some ideas about what may have caused it to happen. He didn't have any definitive answers but he did offer to partially compensate me for the loss. I never took him up on the offer as I had the snake long enough that I didn't feel it was his responsibility any longer. But, I sure did have a whole new level of respect for him as a breeder and a person after that incident!