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Snake just regurgitated... please help.

Plissken said:
I very much doubt being fresh killed can cause a regurge. I think you may not have good pinkies, considering your other snakes are regurging too. The other thing to think about is, are all your snakes kept exactly the same? Ie, if they're all at the same temperature, perhaps the temperatures are not right.
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They are all kept in the same plastic boxes. 4 boxes (3 corns, one texas rat) stacked on top of each other. The temps are right they never fall below 75 and never go above 85 - 85. They are all at the same spot stacked on top of each other. I have thermometers in each and I know that they can malfunction but they show pretty much the same temps so it is unlikely that all four boxes' thermometers fail together and show the same temp (+- 2 or 3 degrees from top to bottom box.) They have the same hide (plastic hide by herpcraft) and same exo-terra water dish.

The only difference is that the blizzard is kept on Aspen and the others are on paper. But since the blizzard regurged as well as one of those on paper, I doubt thats it.

The other one that I fed that hasn't regurged was also fed from the same batch of pinkies. He's sitting in his hide which I lifted up to make sure he hadn't regurged as well, and he is nice and alert and full.
 
I just flushed the rest of those pinkies down the toilet. It may not be the cause but no reason not to get new ones. Besides, who's gonna eat them? I'm gonna need to get some day olds anyway.
 
If all three snakes regurged, my guess is it was the pinkies. Otherwise, I'd suggest your temps were off, but since you've checked them, that wasn't it.

Anyway, follow the advice I gave in my last post, using new pinkies next time. When I cut mine, I do it sideways halfway down the mouse's belly. If you cut them frozen, they don't make a mess. There is a little blood that seeps out after they thay, but pinkies don't have much blood anyway since they're so small.

Good luck with them, and keep us updated.
 
Strange thing is, its been a few days, and the blizzard shed. The other two haven't. They showed no sign of shedding in terms of eye color etc. but the blizzard must have started shed cycle wellbefore fed. Really strange.
 
oddly, my bloodred will regurge if i feed him anytime around his shed. and otherwise, he holds his pinks just fine... i don't feed him anything larger than a small pinkie though, even though he's big enough for something larger... after all the regurges i've had with him i don't want to chance it.

definitely wait 10 days without bothering them except for water. don't look in the hides etc. becky gives GREAT advice... and she knows her stuff when it comes to regurges (unfortunately).

i use aspen and train all my snakes to eat in a feeding cup. i put the prey item in the cup and then tip it on it's side in their viv... they slither in, eat and leave again. this way i don't need to move them to eat! works reallllly well.

;) now they see me lowering the cup into their viv and they come over... knowing it's feeding day!
 
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