Christmas day bummer...

[Sitting_duck]

My only keelback, my only snake, was found dead this morning (christmas morning). There was 2 out of 4 guppies in the water bowl, 1 guppie on the bedding, and 1 gone.

So I have no idea what happend,but he's definately dead.

Were going to LLLreptiles tommorrow and my grampa refuses not to buy me a new snake.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

I'm so sorry to hear that you lost a snake on christmas... I'm sorry to hear that you lost your snake period. My only advice would be to stay away from keelbacks as your only snake for the sheer reason that most of them are imported and are chock full of parasites and have a very high risk of suddenly dying on you like that. Go with something simple and CB and you will hopefully have much better luck and will get to watch a snake grow up big and strong, and hopefully enjoy his company for years

This is why I hope to further to progress of the striped keelbacks as pets!

[guidofatherof5]

I'm sorry to hear about your loss.

[Sitting_duck]

Thanks


Unfortunately I didn't even know it was keelback when i bought it.

[reptile3]

Sorry to hear about your snake...

should get a snake from one of the nice owners here on the group!!

[adamanteus]

Sorry to hear about your snake.

[Stefan-A]

Sorry about your loss, too.

[Sitting_duck]

Sucks to not know why he died. Temps were ok, maybe he was sick when i bought him. I bought him about 4 weeks ago from Petco.

Just to clarify, garter snakes do not eat crickets, and neither do keelbacks, right?

Because at petco they have crickets in all the snake tanks.

[guidofatherof5]

Most of those large pet outlets have very little knowledge about the reptiles they sell. In and out the door seems to be the goal. It's a shame since there are a lot of good animals suffering bacause of uninformed sellers.

[infernalis]

Exactly what Steve just said.

I have a hard time with Petco...

They sell Iguanas as "disposable" pets.