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Substrate

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Maize

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My son and I are new at this. We just got our corn a month ago. As far as substrate goes does any body use that reptile carpet basically it's felt cloth. We are using it right now, but I'm worried it may not be right for it. Any body have any experience with it?

It also sounds like I messed up and over feed it too. We were feeding it 2 pinkys and it seemed to be handling it, but then it regurged last week. I didn't know about the 10 day waiting period and feed it again in 5 days 1 pinky regurged again. Now we are waiting the 10 days. I'm hoping it will make it, but sounds like it's in serious condition from what I've been reading. The temp looks right. It's holding at around 80. We are using a UTh and a ceramic heat lamp to keep it at the right temp. It's young only I would say 15" long. Any hope for survival?

Thanks for any help or suggestions
 
I always heard that the carpet type is a bad thing. I think I read where it harbors bacteria and it is very hard to clean. I personally use aspen.


As far a the regurge, one is bad and two in a row is really bad! I have a corn that regurged twice in a row even after waiting the 10 days after the first regurge. Here is what I did:

1. I got ReptiBac from Kathy Love which she sells on her website. (www.cornutopia.com) I just sprinkle it on the pinky.

2. Feed VERY, VERY small parts of the pinky. What you need to do is just give the snake the pinky head. Yes, it sounds gross but you need the snake to keep something down. And you certainly dont want three regurges in a row!

3. I fed my corn pinky heads for the next 5 feedings and after that I went to pinkys cut in half. She has not regurges since then and it's been well over a month now.

What you really need to do is take this feeding very slowly. This is something that you can not rush. You need to have your corn build up it's digestive juices because when they are deleted, they can not keep any food down.

Let us know how everything goes!
 
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