TKReptile

Krystle,

What substrate did you keep them on?

Here's a couple photos of the one that died:





and one of the surviving baby (you can see the folds of skin on its side):

I use newspaper in all of my baby burms cages. I use SaniChips in all of my big burm and boa cages,The picture of the baby corn was compliment of Tom Mckenna, That corn was one of the Normal het lavander I purchased from him. I purchased the corns October 19 2003 along with 2 yellow ratsnakes from EBV at the San Diego IRBA show. They were all in seprate delicups when purchased and were kept in them, with the addition of a 1 ounce deli cup stapled to the side for a water dish. The other 10 are alive and well a few hours away where I met the lady who purchased them.
I am sure I will be replying more.
Thanks,
Krystle Treadwell

Please let me know if you hear of anything else. The last one is hanging in there-but still refuses to eat and drink. I'm going to try to tube-feed it today after another soak.

The dark belly in the photo of the one that died (not the green spot-the one I took a closeup of) was the color the belly was all the way up to just below the head the day I soaked it and it pooped out the green stuff. After is defecated, that was the remaining dark coloration in the stomach until I found it dead Sunday evening.

The remaining corn's belly is also that color, but not nearly as bad as the dead one's was. After the soak, both showed the sunken-in tail section just before the vent that you can see in the photo of the dead one.

I just fed all my other baby corns last night and they are fine. They all ate and none have regurgitated.

These two were not kept near any other herps during the time of their quarantine. They were kept in a separate room, each in a separate 5" x 5" x 2" gladware container with ventilation holes on paper towel, and a small condiment cup full of water. Heat was provided using Ultratherm heat mats, hooked up to a thermostat. Warm area was at 85-90, just like I keep all my other corn snake babies.

I just decided to take a look at Claras website and came across some nice pics of a plump Amel zig zag corn I used to own
http://chaoscat.lowerground.net/herp...s/amelzigzag03

http://chaoscat.lowerground.net/herp...ig03-pics.html

http://chaoscat.lowerground.net/herp...ag11-4-03b.jpg

Thanks,
Krystle

If you look, that photo was taken the day after it had eaten.

My point exactly, the corns were eating directly after they left my care. It wasnt untill you had them in your care that they refused to eat.

They each ate twice, then each regurgitated their 2nd meal on.

I just called Clara and she said nothing that wasnt in this post except that she had left for over a week on a trip to Cali and left the snakes in the care of her maids. She also said that a Necropsy was scheduled for Tomorrow.
Clara could you please post the dates that ate and the dates they reguratated.
Thanks,
Krystle

Clara,

It seems as if Krystle did not keep the babies on Calci-sand. If not, then she isn't the one responsible for their impaction (assuming that is what has happened at all). In fact, if the corns both ate twice before they started regurging, I don't see how they could have been impacted when they came to you in the first place. How did they pass their fecal material, if they were in deed impacted?

Something is not adding up here. Even so, it seems that not much is going to be sttled until after the necropsy. Maybe not even then.