One major thing to consider when feeding animals that have gone without for an extended period of time is regurge. Its great that you've got your racer to eat but give him time to process his meal. If he's halfway through digesting one meal and then has to start digesting another you set yourself up for a regurge. Once a snake pukes you have alot of other worries ie dehydration, digestive fluids harming on the way out ect.

After feeding it the first time wait till you find stools from that meal give it 2 more days and repeat. On most of my high metabolism snakes I feed every 2 days after poo until they reach around half grown then I go to 3 days after defacation.

Just an FYI I've been keeping and breeding snakes for the better part of 15 years and I've yet to own Coluber or Masticophis because of the care requirements. Just now I'm to the point where I think I could keep them succesfully. But I have other snakes to worry about at the moment lol.

Nate

If you need any more advice shoot me a PM. And if anybody feels like correcting me please do as I would love to hear other ideas on this matter.

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