My Garter Died Don't Know The Reason (Grapic Pics D-up W)

[Charlet_2007]

well i went to feed all my snakes and checked on my garter snake.. he had been in a sleep like state for about 2 weeks didn't thank nothing of it.. well i went to hold him and he looked like he had turned a really beautiful blue-green color.. I picked him up and he was dead.. i don't know what happened he was fine other wise.. Here the pics.. when feeling him it felt like he was hollowed out.. and he also has a hole on his belly.. ..

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[Charlet_2007]

[Charlet_2007]

[gregmonsta]

Sorry for your loss ... that hole is very strange ... is there anything in the tank that could have caused it?

[Charlet_2007]

not that i saw i'm going to comb it when i get gloves today but right now its got a mesh lid on it that it cant get out if what ever it is, is in there..

[Stefan-A]

Damn, sorry for your loss.

Really interesting.. Try to look for any small, sharp objects (wood splinters for example) in the tank, while you're at it. Anything that could have been ingested.

They do feel sort of hollowed out when they're dead, I'm not sure it actually is.

[adamanteus]

Sorry to hear your bad news, Natalie.
The other discoloured scales look like scale rot.... as for the hole, could it be decomposition? Has he been dead long enough to smell bad?

[Charlet_2007]

no it hasn't.. i checked on it here like a day or so ago.. it was fine moving around and such just its been really calm which was weird.. didn't think nothing of it because my king gets calm when it starts to shed so i thought it was the same thing..

something else i thought as really wired is the color of it use to be black, orange stripe and yellow now its a really pritty blue-green, black and orange stripe.. whats with the blue-green color?

[adamanteus]

It certainly does look like some kind of puncture wound. I think there was also some scale rot going on there though, but I guess the hole killed him.

[Charlet_2007]

it was right at 2 foot long