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food lump with visible limbs?

Hexadeci

Hexadeci

Paranoid After Midnight
Does anyone ever notice sometimes after eating, the snake's food lump looks like you can see where the limbs are poking out a bit? I haven't noticed any pictures of this in photo's on this site, but then again who wants to bug a very full snake with a camera. Or is my little guy rather on the skinny side (~15gram snake eating ~2-3g pinkies)?
 
I have never seen the limbs. 15 gram snake is fine on 2-3 gram pinkies. That's what the munson plan says. I personally don't follow the munson plan, I just feed a prey item a little larger than the width of my snakes.
 
Ya, I'm not quite sure with this. A few weeks ago I actually had this happen to mine, so I googled the heck out of it and could not find anything. The only thing I found made me come out thinking that he's going to regurge....and then he did. But that was the only time its happened to me, but I'd definitly listen to the others as I'm sure they have seen it much more that I have.
 
Thanks all for the advice. :) Nanci's especially is reassuring.

Well, he seems to be doing well. Apparently he now weighs 21 grams (when the hey did that happen??). No regurges, happily (as far as I know). I suppose he should move up to the next food level soon (2 pinkies), but the size of the lump from just 1, I'll admit, freaks me out. Of course, the size of the lump of 2 pieces of an average pinky was similarly disturbing. And, I know the day after lump size would be a good rule of thumb, but the little guy's always hiding the day after, and I'm afraid to stress him out by digging him up or detangling him from his beloved tree.

Somewhat off topic:
Ever have one of those disturbing dreams that feels exactly like a slightly sleepy day, where nothing out of place happens and everything is completely normal except the one thing you've been dreading happens? And there is nothing to tip you off that it's a dream, except you slowly find yourself in bed, which is still perfectly plausible? And you feel damned sure it was a dream, but ...what if? And why not? So that happened to me with the regurge. :(
 
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