babies susceptable to chemicals

[The Snake Whisperer]

Personally I've found that a mixture of vinegar and water works as well or better than most commercial cleaning products and is safe to use around the snakes and birds and my other animals. Its also much cheaper!

[Scott E.]

I may be full of beans on the whole chemical thing. I didn't see how the little guy was acting before the whole bucket incedent. I just thougt that since we saw two or three of them acting flaky after the bucket, that it might be connected. I don't know if it was chemicals or if he was born like this. I would be interested if anyone else has had a baby like this.

[ConcinusMan]

Update:
The one baby is still acting strange and not eating. All of the others are eating and growing like weeds. The strange acting one acts like it wants to eat, but can't seem to get all of its ducks in a row. It will get a worm in its mouth and just sit there, then finally spit it back out. We will keep trying to get it to eat.

That happens much of the time anyway, with any litters, there is almost always a few. I wouldn't necessarily attribute this to the suspected chemical exposure.

I have seen baby snakes act the way you described just by a sudden change in temperature or light intensity so it could also be that there was no real chemical exposure. There are other reasons that baby snakes would behave the way you described.

Once upon a time, I was giving some very young concinnus a cool down. they were born in early august and I was going hard on them in January because I had planned to release them and nature isn't going to go easy on them so I figured cooling them down to 42 degrees would "weed out" the weaklings. Thing is, I think I warmed them up too fast and they all started twitching like you described. Most of them made it to a year old before being released, and yes, a few died during the cool down or during the warm up. I've also seen them act like that when going from dim to very bright light too suddenly.