I took her to the vet the first time she regirgitated. They said she was fine and they suggested diffrent size food and nto to handel her for a few days after she eats (I didn't do that any way she is nippy when picked up) they didn't specialize in reptiles and were pretty much the only people around that would even see her (since she bites). They did a fecal exam and all that and it came back fine. So I tried a diffrent size of food that didn't help. Then when I was out getting her food again I talked to a lady that owns Emerald Coast reptiles, that has Emerald Boas (and is now a breeder of them). She said hers were doing the same thing when she got them and she talked to a local breeder about it (hers were wild caught adults though, mine is a captive breed baby and obviously a python), she said the other lady said to keep them in a room that was airconditioned to be at most 75 degrees during the day(she has been keeping them like that for the last few years she said). So I tried the same thing. She hasn't regirgitated since and stays up in her perches. The place I got her from kept her in a room temperture shoe rack system, with a dowl rod in the middle and a wet paper towel at the bottom (they did say they imported their snakes from a breeder in asia). I'm using a zoo med analog thermometer its up tword the top on one of the sides so it could be off a few degrees (she is in one of those preformed plastic granate colored cages with the sliding glass and a vent cut in the top). She is eating live pinkie and fuzy size mice, wont eat frozen and I started my own colony before I got her to make sure they don't have mites anything. Personally I don't like it that cold in that room since I sleep in there. Its a bedroom doesn't have any excessive activity. I have the lights on a timer and cycle her around 12 hrs, I cut back half an hour on feeding day. I had a normal light in there but it was to hot and she would go to the bottom and sleep in the subtrate (tried the lowest I could find which was 25 watts, then moved to a night light versian thats like 7.5 but I couldn't see much). So I've been trying diffrent lights. I decided on a 2.0 UVB reptile bulb since it gives the best colors and no real heat. She is pretty active at night time a few hours after her lights go out. Moves around a little during the day but ususally its like to repostition her head. Any ideas on how to get the temperture up in there with out making her regirgitate? Any one else had a baby that didn't like the high tempertures? Could it be since it was winter when I got her she sensed it and for what ever reason wanted lower temps?
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