i did not know that snakes move after they are dead...interesting...my snake shed jus a couple of days ago! i hope your lil guy feels better, i don't know how much 160 is, but it must be a lot!!!!
i can imagine it would be a difficult thing to go though, especially when you watched him develop so much from the being rescued, and then into a healthy snake
my farther used to keep snakes when i was a kid, he used to get furious at ppl mistreating them, from what i remember he must have got a constrictor of some kind at least once a week that was partially malled by live rats
i remember lots of brawls with "natives" that caught snakes in the felt and deiced to keep them as pets