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DMong
at Fri Feb 15 21:07:34 2013 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
Yes, that is absolutely true that you need to allow the snake's gut time enough to recover before attempting to feed again (at least 10-12 days or so). That might have been one of my posts you saw, as I post about this very subject to folks very often. After that time period you should offer a much smaller meal for a few feeding to make sure its stomach is back to operating normally again with the acids, electrolytes and gut flora back in proper balance to be able to digest once again. The very WORST thing anyone could do is to immediately offer food after a regurge incident because it will only cause another regurge again and be many times worse every time after. The rotted food actually poisons their system. I just posted twice today about that as a matter of fact to some people that had their snakes regurgitate. Because the winter time is cooler and people have to tweek their setups accordingly to make sure the temps are right so this doesn't happen.
A snake has to have enough belly surface warmth to properly digest with temps of around 82-87F on one far end portion of its enclosure, but also have a cooler area to retreat to after digestion to conserve energy and body mass in the 70's for example, but it can even be cooler than that.....the important part is that it can seek enough warmth, then get away afterwards.
~Doug
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RE: Kingsnake vomited last mouse - DMong, Fri Feb 15 21:07:34 2013