It depends on their size! I have two neonates that have been eating mice since they were 3 weeks old, no lie. They have not been pushed but were born enormous. But then I have three more tiny babies, that still are eating fuzzies! It's dependent on the size of babies. Some babies are really quite large. All 5 babies are colombian bcis.

It's most likely your temps are too low, or you had temnperature spikes that were too hot. Do you have a thermostat? This might help you if your room tends to have temperture spikes. This is porecisely why a rheostat may not be enough. If your basking spot temp and warm side is too low you can get regurges too. Maybe the problem is the way you're measuring your temps. Get a temp gun, and shoot the temps right on the top of the strata down where the snake lives. Don't forget to shoot the temp under the hide box on the warm side. One time I had black hide boxes and inside the hide got too hot although the rest of the cage was fine, and I got a regurge from that hide box. Those are the most common reasons: husbandry problems. A stool sample to the vet never hurts though. If you fix all this stuff, and you still get a regurge you should take the snake to the vet.

What to do now? Wait two weeks then feed a pinky only. If it stays down then slowly increase the size of the prey at subsequent feedings slowly. Next week try a fuzzy and so on.

Good luck
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