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Posted by: carl3 at Fri Feb 20 00:20:18 2004   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by carl3 ]  
   

I had an regurge incident when I moved my herps from one room to another inside my home. Well, the temperature difference between the two rooms was slight, I didn't think it could make a difference. Unfortunately it did. Of course I found out the hard way AFTER some of my snakes regurged their first meals in the new room. I moved them back to their original room and everything was fine after that. It was only a difference in a few degrees but it was a big difference for them.

I believe there is an internal mechanism within corns that signals them to spit up food that they know would otherwise rot inside of them due to lack of digestion. That was really the only time I ever had a problem with regurge (b/c of slightly lower temps). I imagine the reverse could also be a problem. Many people use inaccurate methods of checking temps and probably run temps higher then corns may experience in the wild. In a cage or tank, there is only so much room to thermoregulate. I was using various thermometers, etc etc and no two would read the same temps. I usually go with an approximation of averages of the 3 daily temp readings I get.
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