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gardenmum
at Sun Aug 13 15:26:36 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by gardenmum ]
It is recommended that you wait 10 days to feed again. The snake has to re-establish the digestive stuff in its gut. When you feed the next meal, it needs to be a very small food item, something that would actually be considered small for the snake's size. This allows the gut to digest the item and continue building up its enzymes. Then wait another 7-10 days and feed another small item, then start to go back to a regular feeding schedule. This is, of course, if the snake has no other regurges. IF the snake should regurge again, then you will have to start all over again with waiting ten days and feeding very small prey items, but it may be best to have a vet check it out if this does happen to see if there may be something else causing it.
It is very possible that you overfed the snake for its first meal in its new home by giving it two prey items. It is usually best to start off any new snake on a smaller than normal prey item for its first meal(s) at its new home.
Best of luck.
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