Since I have last posted in this thread, I have dug deeper and asked questions, A veterinarian whom I spoke with was highly interested in this as renal failure could very easily be attributed to the consumption of phosphates.

I say "Could" because until now, no one ever thought much about it.

When Chomper's uric acid levels soared off the charts, the vet asked me what I was feeding him, I said "Inverts" mostly frozen raw shrimp. She asked me to look at the package it came in, and sure enough there it was.. Sodium Tripolyphosphate.

Then I looked at my packaged fish, there it is again, so I went to the market and just started reading bag after bag of frozen seafoods, they all have it.

The trout that I started buying is farm raised locally, and the market I buy it at has a sign posted that clearly states "Farm fresh, certified chemical / preservative free organic rainbow trout"

Sudden snake deaths ceased once I began feeding the trout fillet.