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Help! Regurge!

Carinata

Carinata

Ever Evolving Exotics
Well I fed Jasmine a small mouse today. It only made a medium lump in the snakes belly. Well I only moved her off her feeding plate so that I could put her hide back in. I went to the shower came back and she puked it up. I am worried what should I do?
 
Mabye. I mean mabye she is! :shrugs: Will they regurge during shed. I have nev had this issue before
 
Hmmm. I mean it is a good thing (I think) that she only had had the mouse in her for a few hours.
 
To answer that question (post #3), many of mine will eat in blue. But I don't offer them much. They would eat more, but I have found if it is a big meal, (or they are even slightly disturbed), they will regurge (before or during shedding). I'm venturing that the need for streamlining to shed overcomes their need to hold down the meal. Now that is just my humble self thinking, David.

Of course, I'm not going into a protracted regurge protocol here. There are others more experienced than I, and you are certainly knowledgeable enough to find it on your own.
 
SO mabye she is in the latter shed time. I am gonna leave he be for 10 days. Then offer her a small hopper and see if she can take it. Also I am gonna leave her be. Should I turn the heat up or down?
 
David, wouldn't you think humidity (increase, perhaps) would be more important at the moment than temperature?
 
Wait ten days, no handling, offer a much smaller meal, and work her back up slowly and patiently. A pinky may be the place place to start to avoid a second regurge and hopefully all goes well as long as you don't go all gang busters and move her up to fast;)
 
David, do you have Nutribac on hand? If not, you should order it from Kathy. I would HEAVILY slit Jasmine's meals for the next year, as well as rolling her mice liberally in Nutribac. For the time being, until the first meal, you can put it in her drinking water, but you need to change the water every day because Nutribac is bacteria. I've never had a problem with any snake, corn, king, or boa, taking a mouse that was very heavily powdered with Nutribac. I'd leave the temps the same. I'd never feed her in blue from now on. Just to be safe. Also, you know to not handle her till after she's digested the first meal, and if it was me, I'd not ever handle her less than three days after a meal.
 
OK Thanks Danielle! One more thing, should I watch her behavior alot. How will I know if she is getting worse
 
Of all of my snakes, only one has regurgitated during shed. He has done it a few times, and it's very difficult to notice if he's in shed near the ladder portion, so I have to be extra vigilant. The good thing about this type of situation, at least from my experience, is that the regurgitating hasn't continued, and he eats and digests perfectly when not in shed. You just have to be particularly observant during these times, and make sure she isn't in shed during feeding.
Some of my snakes just refuse their meals while in blue, but some eat with perfectly normal digestion. Only the one has regurgitated, and most likely will continue to do so, which just means he has to be more carefully monitored, in order to avoid feeding him in blue.

Not to say that this is the case, and I would treat it as a worst case scenario just to be safe, offer smaller less frequent meals, and return to normal feeding. I just thought I would share my experience with a similar situation, and hopefully this brings some reassurance.
 
Nanci said:
David, do you have Nutribac on hand? If not, you should order it from Kathy. I would HEAVILY slit Jasmine's meals for the next year, as well as rolling her mice liberally in Nutribac. For the time being, until the first meal, you can put it in her drinking water, but you need to change the water every day because Nutribac is bacteria. I've never had a problem with any snake, corn, king, or boa, taking a mouse that was very heavily powdered with Nutribac. I'd leave the temps the same. I'd never feed her in blue from now on. Just to be safe. Also, you know to not handle her till after she's digested the first meal, and if it was me, I'd not ever handle her less than three days after a meal.
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So it will take a year for her to get better?
 
Michael823 said:
Of all of my snakes, only one has regurgitated during shed. He has done it a few times, and it's very difficult to notice if he's in shed near the ladder portion, so I have to be extra vigilant. The good thing about this type of situation, at least from my experience, is that the regurgitating hasn't continued, and he eats and digests perfectly when not in shed. You just have to be particularly observant during these times, and make sure she isn't in shed during feeding.
Some of my snakes just refuse their meals while in blue, but some eat with perfectly normal digestion. Only the one has regurgitated, and most likely will continue to do so, which just means he has to be more carefully monitored, in order to avoid feeding him in blue.

Not to say that this is the case, and I would treat it as a worst case scenario just to be safe, offer smaller less frequent meals, and return to normal feeding. I just thought I would share my experience with a similar situation, and hopefully this brings some reassurance.
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Thanks Michael! I will keep that in mind!
 
No it doesn't take a year, it just helps her continuously manufacture good bacterias for digestion. I have one regurge and I rolled in Nutribac for a few months to be on the safe side. Just be careful that stuff is soo sticky and can make the mouse adhere to your feeding tub,lol
 
OK, I will see if I can get some of that! Thanks Guys. I may not be able too for a while though due to finacial things. I sent 95 out today for my new ghost corn and shipping.
 
I just arbitrarily picked a year as how long it would take to make me relax my guard about a second regurge. Seems reasonable! As Danielle says, the Nutribac is sticky, so I generally quickly rinse the snake under the kitchen faucet, with cool water, before replacing it in its viv. Poor Noah gets stuck to his feeding bin so he can't move, like he's in flypaper!
 
since shes on bigger meals i would wait 2 weeks. it aint gonna hurt her. and the longer the better. might make her pissed, but will give her more time to recoop. i wait 2 weeks, i only had one problem girl like this though. and she was a real problem and now my buddy owns her and he knows of her problem and is still nutribacing her. it was his pressuring not mine, he just wanted her that badly.

and when you do feed her i say give her a pink or a fuzzy. and as nanci said, if you have or get nutribac slice it down the back and stomach and roll it around in the powder. the smaller the meal the better to kickstart her system back into good digestion bacteria. im no professional but i have dealt with regurges and these methods have worked for me.
 
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