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Hello everyone, we have a year old female apricot that has been feeding great on live pinks for several months, but the last 2 pinks she has thrown up a couple days after she ate, and yesterday she totally refused the meal for the first time ever! Please help me understand why this is happening and if there is anything I can do to get her to keep it down!?!?!?!?!?! Nothing has changed with her cage or the temp or anything that I can tell. Thanks in advance for your help, Jeffrey

is to totally not feed her for about two weeks at this point. Don't handle her or bother her, except to change her water a couple of times a week. Then when you start feeding her again, use a small size food item, about half a normal size for her. An option that you might want to consider, since she has already regurged twice, is a vet visit.

She might be going into a shed cycle, so you might want to up her humidity levels now.
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phflame
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The clutchmate to the other pueblan that you had?

You need to get your snake to a vet ASAP, or it will probably suffer the fate of your other one. Something is definately going on here. They may be able to treat it with medicine. I just realized that you had just lost your other one. I wouldn't try to feed it until you see a vet. Good Luck! Derek

You definitely need to take him to the vet ASAP, since you did lose another snake from the same person.

Give us some info on your husbandry, though. Temperatures that you measure directly over top of the heat pad, what kind of substrate, how many hides and how big are they, how much handling. Another suggestion is to look at your feeders: where are you getting them from, are they live or frozen, what kind of substrate are they kept on before you get them (I had a snake start regurging after I fed him a live pinkie, it turns out that the pinkie probably started the whole deadly regurge cycle due to something that he had on him, either a no pest strip chemical or maybe he was kept on cedar).
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I am not sure if this is a clutch mate or not, the person I bought them from didnt say. She is 20.5 inches long. She is feeding on live pinks that I get from a VERY good pet store here in town and I have seen that they are bred in either aspen or cedar. I have a ceramic heater that sits on the top of the cage and I keep it on 24 7. I have no clue what the exact temp is because I dont have a in cage thermometer. I know thats bad! She is in aspen substrate and has 3 hidding places, 1 right under heat source and 2 at either end. Also have 2 different water dishes. When my wife gets home with the camera I will take a pic and try to post it. We handle her about once a week at the most. When I just measured her now, I noticed that she is looking kind of skinny, and up till now she had been rather nice and plump. We live kind of far outside the city and I dont know if we have a vet around that takes care of anything but farm anumals but will check and see if anyone will take a look at her. Thanks again, Jeffrey

"I have a ceramic heater that sits on the top of the cage and I keep it on 24 7." "has 3 hidding places, 1 right under heat source and 2 at either end."

well from the sounds of it your heat source is in the middle? if so move it to one side, their might not be a good enough temp. gradient for your snake to thermo regulate and is possibly getting to hot.
if im mistaken please disregard my interpretation
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be a definite problem. Cedar is REALLY bad for snakes. Can you switch suppliers for mice? Or have you tried giving her frozen/thawed pinkies instead from a different place?

You definitely need to get an accurate temp reading somehow. I don't know if you can use a regular thermometer to check temps. If your temps are too high, that can cause a regurge. Do you have a radio shack in town, as they carry a good digital thermometer for about 10-14 dollars.
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