snake death

Hello all,

A friend is a teacher in Florida and she had a small water snake (Nerodia
fasciata if you're keeping score) and it just up and died. She said it had
been eating fine, hasn't been handled too much and it lived in a tank with a
filter and clean water with plenty of "minnows". I gave it a look-over and
there was no obvious sign of trauma or pathology, it wasn't too thin or
anything - though it did apparently grab a piece of vegetation just before
it died.
Anyone have any ideas on why it expired?
Thanks,
Tim

ya might wanna post on rec.pets.herp there is more people there.


"Tim Kozusko" <timkozxx.TakeThisOut@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> A friend is a teacher in Florida and she had a small water snake (Nerodia
> fasciata if you're keeping score) and it just up and died. She said it
had
> been eating fine, hasn't been handled too much and it lived in a tank with
a
> filter and clean water with plenty of "minnows". I gave it a look-over
and
> there was no obvious sign of trauma or pathology, it wasn't too thin or
> anything - though it did apparently grab a piece of vegetation just before
> it died.
> Anyone have any ideas on why it expired?
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>