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snakemother
at Fri Feb 15 18:18:21 2013 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by snakemother ]
My graybanded kingsnake had surgery last spring, and I've been trying to get his weight back up ever since. He started eating, but has only been eating very small mice (only one at a time, and will only take them about every ten days). The last time I fed him I was excited because he took a bigger mouse (but still well within the size he should be eating). He ate it on a Sunday night, and sometime Tuesday night/Wednesday morning vomited up a 2/3 digested mouse. I tried to figure out why he would do that, and realized his tank only had overtank light for heat, no undertank (he'd never eaten in the winter before), so I put an undertank heater on his tank. I also got smaller frozen mice this time around. I've not handled or disturbed him since he vomited (and he's shed since then). My main question is that in researching this I found someone who said you shouldn't feed a snake that vomited for 2 weeks so it's stomach can recover. Is this true? Two weeks from when it was fed or when it vomited? Thanks for any suggestions.
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 Kingsnake vomited last mouse - snakemother, Fri Feb 15 18:18:21 2013
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