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Regurge or not?

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jakewc2

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I have this normal corn, that is about 14 months old. I got him from a shop. When I got him, he had been only fed on one pinky every week, and because of that is a really small snake for his age. Since I got him, I have now managed to get him to take a fuzzy. The problem is, the first time he took one, four days later, I found this long sausage type thing about 1.5 to 2 inches long, that looked like skin and fur, with everything else being digested, in the tank. I took it to being regurge as I've not seen it before.

I did the usual thing, fasted him for about 10 days, then fed him on pinkies for a couple of meals, then this week, I fed him on a smaller fuzzy, and 4 days later, together with a huge pile of poop, there's this sausage thing again. I've checked it and it looks like the skin and fur of the fuzzy.

This is worrying me a bit now. Has anybody heard of this happening before?

jakewc2
 
I just took a picture of what I found so you can have a look. I managed to unwrap it a bit, and its definately just skin. The the whole of the insides of the fuzzy have been totally digested.
 

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Yep! Looks like regurge to me! :)

Regurge smells to high-heaven of rotten corpse! lol You really can't miss that smell! :grin01:

Whats the temp in the cage? Is there a gradient etc? Usually regurge is a temperature problem, especially if it takes so long to regurge! That would my my first guess...maybe the cage is warm enough for him to digest a pinkie but not a fuzzy?

If the temp in the cage is fine, try feeding two pinkies a week until your corn is a little bigger, it may be that a fuzzy is just to big for him to handle...

How big is the fuzzy compared to the snake? The prey should be around 1.5 of the width of the snake...Good rule of thumb and works like a charm!!! :)

Best of luck! :santa:
 
ah, I forgot about that, it didnt smell at all. That's wierd.

The size of the fuzzy I got is probably just over the 1.5 times the size of the biggest part of his body. The other thing is, he's been on 3 fuzzies for ages, and doing really well on them. This is the odd bit. Could that come out if his back end as waste? And not be coming out as regurge?
 
When Severus regurged, it didn't smell, either. Yet everyone says they smell awful. Perhaps it depends on how far advanced the decomposition is.

Anyway, that seems like a regurge...I'm no expert, but I don't think that anything coming out the back way should be recognizable (just like in people!).
 
That looks just like what my Scarlett has left me on a few occasions. It is a regurge. She does the same thing. She digests the insides and regurges the skin.

Most often, regurges are caused by temp problems or stress. On the other hand, sometimes they just regurge and you never know what causes it. Scarlett is this way. She is kept in the same conditions as all my other snakes, and she is the only one that has ever regurged.
 
it isnt a regurge this has happened to me twice. when the temperature went below what it should be they actually deficate whatever wasnt fully digested. I had thought it was a regurge too, but after taking a look there was normal crap next to it. All I had to do was wait to feed them for about 10 days and warmed them up and hasnt happened since what was the temp
 
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