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bcijoe
at Fri Jul 21 12:39:28 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by bcijoe ]
i've been gotten! lol... sorry to assume that!
I went against my own beliefs!
"Always assume your assumptions are invalid. - Robert F Tatman"
So let's talk about refusing food.
This could be for many reasons...
the snake may have internal parasites, or maybe the snake isn't ready or totally healed inside from the last time...
Regurging can be very traumatic for a snake, and some may choose not to eat again.
If regurged a day after or so, this is not as bad... the snake can be fed about a week later, maybe more if you want to be ultra conservative...
If the snake regurged more than 2-3 days later, this is when that meal is already partially broken down, soaked in acids, and already down towards the end of their stomach or stomachs. At that point, the regurge is extremely strenuous, harmful, and dangerous. It sends more acids up through more stomach and esophagus, and this burns and tears the linings. this is when you should give it atleast 2-4 weeks rest before attempting again, and then attempting with a much smaller item.
The temps would be a bit warm for MY tastes and experiences.. for lack of a more suitable fix, you can try adjusting temps a bit and see if anything changes.. but you can only gauge this correctly after a few days minimum, preferebly longer, and while having fed him or alteast tried to during this time.
He can be stressed... maybe he's a bit too nervous with everything going on around him, since it's a glass tank..
Also, could be a chemical thing... like strong solutions used for cleaning, insecticides (roach spray), or other harmful substances used in or around the cage.
getting to.... what did you use to secure that glass in the tank?
did you do this after or before it ate the first time?
did you put the snake back in the tank soon after attaching the glass?
did he start refusing after this?
what did he eat the first time.. mouse or rat? and what was tried the other times?
have you tried to switch it lately?
then about the regurge... what size prey did you feed him?
how long after ingestion did he actually regurge?
then about activity...
snakes are not too active at all... and considering they are nocturnal, they may only be active for 2-3 ours during their 'day', which is our night.
so let's say you sleep from 12pm-8am... well that, being your night, will be their day, so to speak, and they may only be active 2-3 of those hours...
so if you're not awake and watching all the time, you may never see him move! and although you are not actually seeing him move, ever, he can very well still be an active snake... see what I mean?
BCC are much more sensitive when it comes to feeding, especially when so young... it may be better to give it a large rat pinky or small rat fuzzy every two weeks, as opposed to the same size colombian boa getting a large mouse every week.
Be well, Joe
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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin
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RE: Here we go (Major issue)... - bcijoe, Fri Jul 21 12:39:28 2006