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My 3 year old corn snake regurgitated...

Wylie

Wylie

Meet Sparkle... :D
for the first time in his life. :(

I looked for reptile vets in the area as my book written by Don Soderberg advises to take the regurge sample in and have it tested for parasites. However, when I called a local vet the receptionist said she's only ever heard of testing the stool, of which I don't have a sample of course cause Flash didn't digest his mouse. So I'm not sure what to do here? Anybody have any experience with this? Do I just take Flash in to be checked out or what? Or do I just try to feed him again in 2 weeks? Unfortunately I was unable to talk to the vet himself cause he is out of town til Friday. I figure I'll go ahead and call him on Friday, see if I can talk to the doc himself to see what I should do. In the meantime I'd like to hear others' experience with having an adult corn snake who has never regurgitated before just suddenly do so. Thanks for any info and/or suggestions!
 
I believe what you actually test regurge for is a disease called crypto. I really doubt, in your situation, he would have it. Can you attribute the regurge to anything? Snake is blue, disturbed, had a temp drop, prey larger than ever before? I would not feed for ten days. Get Nutribac from Kathy Love and put it on his future meals. When you feed again, start with a hopper, and cut a bunch of slits in the sides and back. I would feed every ten days, one hopper, one hopper, one weanling, one weanling, one weanling, then an adult. If he regurges at any time during this, I would schedule a vet visit.
 
Nanci said:
I believe what you actually test regurge for is a disease called crypto. I really doubt, in your situation, he would have it. Can you attribute the regurge to anything? Snake is blue, disturbed, had a temp drop, prey larger than ever before? I would not feed for ten days. Get Nutribac from Kathy Love and put it on his future meals. When you feed again, start with a hopper, and cut a bunch of slits in the sides and back. I would feed every ten days, one hopper, one hopper, one weanling, one weanling, one weanling, then an adult. If he regurges at any time during this, I would schedule a vet visit.
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Thanks Nanci, you're always so helpful! :)

I cannot contribute the regurge to anything, he's not in blue, he hasn't been disturbed at all, and the temps have been steady on both the warm and cold side, of course he has remained on the warm side which is always 80-85 degrees. In other words his housing situation and temps have not changed in months. He actually didn't even want to eat in the first place, I had to really coax him to get him to eat which is not like him at all. I am also only feeding him one adult mouse every 14 days.

I only have adult and small mice available right now, suggestions? He's a big guy, 584 grams three months ago. Can I feed him a small mouse in 14 days or should I cut it? Or should I order some other sizes of mice? What sucks about that is I only have the two snakes and I already have plenty of mice for both of them. But I'll do what I need to do, just thought I'd ask.
 
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