Just @$#*&%!! great.

[anji1971]

So my snake luck is taking a turn for the worst. I think Deejay is having seizures.
Her body keeps going into these jumpy spasms, and when I pick her up, her whole body is just shuddering. I've never seen anything like this.
It's not like the thiaminase spasms -- she isn't writhing and twisting, but she's lying still, just jumping, like we do when we're startled!
I fed her last night -- salmon and nightcrawlers -- and she was FINE. She ate with her usual fire and gusto. Now this.
What the hell????

[Zephyr]

Where do you get your worms/nightcrawlers from?

[anji1971]

My yard, when it rains. No pesticide used here, either.

[Zephyr]

Hmm... Any neighbors?

[anji1971]

Not that I know of. Well, I mean, yes I have neighbours, but they don't do anything with pesticides either. One neighbour uses weed'n'feed occasionally, but not near my lawn.

[Zephyr]

Hmm... If he's done it recently, and you collect worms during rainstorms, some of it may get washed onto your lawn, depending on where he's located.

[anji1971]

He's next door, but I don't think they've done anything since last year.
I've always fed her worms from my yard, and I fed them to her mom too.
Deejay's always been perfectly healthy. This is just so sudden, I just can't fathom why.

[anji1971]

If it were something I've fed her, could it be undone if I changed the diet? Or would she end up damaged permanently?

[Zephyr]

I don't know... You might have bad weather moving in.

[Charlet_2007]

do worms get parasites?