My 9 year old boa just regurgitated it's last meal yesterday. This has never happened before and I am a bit nervous. I recently had a problem with the heat lights and relaced them with flex watt the last time I feed them. I attatched the flex watt on the top of the enclosure but was not happy with the temps so I figured a new way to heat with lamps and put them in. However I think that the unstable temps lead to the regurgitation. I feed her on Dec 30 and she regurgitated yesterday Jan 8. Thats 10 days later. The meal was fairly large but not much larger than she's had for the last 7 years.

I set her up in quarantene with bottom heat and will let her reast for 14 days. I then plan to give her a relatively small rat and see what happens.

Is there anyone who has been through this that can add advise in what I should be doing otherwise. I would seek a vet but I need a stool sample to look for internal parasites etc.

I have kept snakes for over 15 years and have never had this problem, althogh I also have never fed when changing heat sources before and will never do it again!!

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• REGURGITATION!?!?!?! Story and need advise (hope) - garweft, Mon Jan 9 13:09:47 2006
• RE: REGURGITATION!?!?!?! Story and need advise (hope) - bcijoe, Mon Jan 9 13:24:55 2006
• RE: REGURGITATION!?!?!?! Story and need advise (hope) - garweft, Mon Jan 9 15:01:56 2006
• RE: REGURGITATION!?!?!?! Story and need advise (hope) - bcijoe, Tue Jan 10 07:11:08 2006
• RE: REGURGITATION!?!?!?! Story and need advise (hope) - garweft, Tue Jan 10 20:42:16 2006