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Limp snake

Janome

Janome

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So I was cleaning my snake cages like I always do. Substrate is newspaper / paper towels. When I came to my adult male ghost ( @ 10-11 years old) I picked him up like I always do. Put him in a "holding" container...same one I use all the time. Cleaned out his cage, etc. Took him back out of the holding container an he was stiff an limp. I held him for a little bit an he seemed to get worse, not moving much at all. I laided him on his back an he righted himself so he was still alive. Continued to hold him to see what he would do. Nothing. He wouldn't even wrap himself around my arm like he always does.

So I put him back in his 40 gallon size ''house'' an kept an eye on him while I cleaned another cage. He wasn't moving at all when I checked on him but when I touched him he moved so he was still alive. I picked him up again an he started acting normal again. I have no idea what happened to him or why he acted like that. Anyone have a snake do that?????
 
Hmmm that is something I've never heard of. I will be interested to see what people suggest. Maybe he was just panicking?
 
Alicia P said:
Was he normal feeling when you put him in the holding container?
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Ya, he was normal feeling when I put him in the container. As I was cleaning his cage I looked over at him an he was crawling around a bit but when I picked him up he went all stiff and limp. So I have no idea. I use the same holding container for my other corns, milk, rat snake so it has nothing to do with that container.
 
Hope it was just an isolated incident and that he is ok now. I'm by far no expert, but what kind of substrate do you use?

Is it possible he may have ingested something outside of the normal and just had a hard time getting it down causing issues?!?!? Like I said, I could be way off base, just thinking out loud.
 
just throwing this out there, but I would suggest geting seperate holding bins for each of your snakes, they could be passing some unknowen sickness from one snake to another..
unbeknownst to you.. have you had your snakes checked out by a herp vet, that way you know for a fact that there's no way that they can be transferring something from each other..

I use seperate feeding bins for nth my snakes, and I have never incountered an issue.
 
By stiff and limp, do you mean he was just flopped over? Mine gets "floppy" when he's surprised, I think it's partly a defense mechanism.
 
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