sad day

[halfwaynowhere]

Today I found my two L parahybana slings dead, as well as my two corn snake hatchlings from last year. My two B smithi slings died a few weeks ago, too. I don't know what's going on, and its really freaking me out. I don't use any chemicals in my room or anything, so I have no idea why everything is dying. Now I'm down to my two adult G roseas, my adult A hentzi, and my A versicolor sling. Trying to decide whether I want to keep those, or if I should just get rid of them so I don't kill them off, too...

 

[zephed]

How dry/wet is it in your enclosures? What's the temp of the room? These things are best to check first and then I'd be making sure you don't have a parasite problem like mites or something. Hope that helps some. Take care :0)

 

[halfwaynowhere]

no mites. temps are pretty good, a bit warmer than room temp, because i've got heat lamps and things going for other critters in that same part of the room. I don't have a thermometer on hand to check the temps right now, though. I try to keep them on the dryer side, but mist regularly so they get their moisture. They were all fine, until they were dead, except for the first B smithi sling, which went into a death curl a few days before actually dying. Well, none of them were eating, but their abdomens were nice and round, and I just figured pre-molt.

 

[zephed]

Sounds like everything should be fine. Maybe overfeeding on the t's? No idea on the corn though...sorry to hear that dude :0(

 

[GOMER113]

Scary stuff! Very, very weird and sad. Sorry to hear that.

 

[aracnophiliac]

Food contamination...If you are buy food for all your pets at the same establishment it may have to do woith Food contamonation

 

[jme]

that happened to me once one batch of crickets had a weird mite of some sort on them and before i noticed it killed 2 of my versicolors felt bad but was glad that i was feeling lazy and only fed them that night

 

[Sathane]

I had a concern a few days ago with my next door neighbour spraying pesticides in her backyard. Normally this wouldn't be a huge issue but I sometimes open a window in my basement for some fresh air circulation and this may allow some of the pesticides into my spider room.

It's probably highly unlikely but just a thought...

 

[halfwaynowhere]

normally i don't have a problem with pesticides, we only use "green" chemical cleaners in my house, and don't use insecticides. But I did have my window open a tiny bit for a few nights when it got really hot out. I'd hate for that to have done it...
as for food source, i doubt that's the case, because i think the corn snake deaths had to be related to the T deaths, and we get our crickets and mice from two completely unrelated sources.