Like you may have read on captivebred, we were shocked to find a polybox of dead snakes this morning after getting them home...

They were packed safely but we think they have been overheated on the coach (put somewhere too hot) - we did not put the box on the coach the people in charge did.

My dads been before (the snakes are my dads) and packed them the same way everytime and they have been fine. The snakes were from muiltiple breeders at the Hamm show yesterday and were fine when bought.

We also had another polybox with geckos in. They are fine, thank god! Apart from the baby one which was also found dead...

We were on coach 2 by the way, has this happened to anyone else? If it has will you please reply to this or message me

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0.1.0 Grey Banded Kingsnake - Lampropeltis Alterna
1.1.0 Crested Geckos - Rhacodactylus Ciliatus
2.0.2 Gargoyle Geckos - Rhacodactylus Auriculatus
1.1.0 Royal Pythons - Python Regius
1.2.0 Leopard Geckos - Eublepharis Macularius
4 leo eggs and 2 crestie eggs cooking!

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Once again sorry for your losses.
i was on the same coach an mine were ok just a bit cold.

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so sorry that must be so awful

If you dont mind me askin were on the coach was you sat?
an were abouts in the hold was your boxes

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OH no im so so sorry for your loss.. thats so sad

ive just read the captive bred postings.... thats really horrific.. has anyne got to the bottom of what happened yet??

details would be helpful so this never happens to anyone again whoevers fault it was ???

were the coaches supposed to have adequate heating and was that the responsibility of the organisers.. if so have you mesaged them to see if theres a way you can work out what happened. i know it doesnt bring the snakes back but im wondering if your snakes were already heated??? were they?? and then placed in the warmest part of the holding area in the coach if thats why it happened...

was the heating for the reptiles meant to have been spread evenly on the holding reptile area of the coach so there were no hot spots or freezing spots..

or was that the responsibility of each individual on the coach>>>


again im sorry

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I asked in other post, 'its unlikely but were majority of snakes from same breeder'?

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we were on the top near the back
and we don't know where the boxes were placed cos it was one of the guys in charge that put them there.. all i know is it was somewhere to the right of the hold.

thank u sparkle
erm, as far as we knew the hold was meant to have adequate heating, meaning no heat mats were needed (depending on what type of reptile you got of course).

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0.1.0 Grey Banded Kingsnake - Lampropeltis Alterna
1.1.0 Crested Geckos - Rhacodactylus Ciliatus
2.0.2 Gargoyle Geckos - Rhacodactylus Auriculatus
1.1.0 Royal Pythons - Python Regius
1.2.0 Leopard Geckos - Eublepharis Macularius
4 leo eggs and 2 crestie eggs cooking!

oh sorry phil, no they weren't from the same breeder

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0.1.0 Grey Banded Kingsnake - Lampropeltis Alterna
1.1.0 Crested Geckos - Rhacodactylus Ciliatus
2.0.2 Gargoyle Geckos - Rhacodactylus Auriculatus
1.1.0 Royal Pythons - Python Regius
1.2.0 Leopard Geckos - Eublepharis Macularius
4 leo eggs and 2 crestie eggs cooking!

how packed and seled was the box, did you put airholes in it, because that amount of animals would use the oxygen very quick. i have brought back 20+ animals worth €2500+ and havent lost one, and that box was right on the hotest spot as jase boa and young gun will tell you how hot the box was when we grabbed and opend it. but they are all fine. i think by the sounds of it that it was an oxygen factor.