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Hello All,

One of my youngins has regurged 3 meals in a row. The first time it happened I fed him a live fuzzie the next day which he ate and promply regurged. After that I waited a week and feed him another live fuzzie and he regurged that too. After searching thoroughly through this forum this morning I realise that I should have never tried feeding so soon after a regurge. I'm worried because this snake was a stubborn eater to begin with. The only way he'll eat for me is with a live fuzzie in a deli cup overnight. I was so happy when he finally ate and when he regurged my knee jerk reaction was to feed again. I now know that can cause damage so I'm even more worried now.

Room temp is always 75 and the cool side of the cage is about 76. Hot side is about 85 (I'll probably drop that to 80 after reading some posts from Jeff this morning). Humidity hovers around 70 percent and I use cypress for substrate. I have several other babies in the exact same setup and all are doing well.

Is it vet time? What else should I do? Thanks for the advice,
Jamie

OK, now you know, no need to kick yourself.

1) temps, definately drop the hot end to 80 as you indicated.

2) Humidity - fine

3) Patience - Since your baby has regurged three times, I'd definately WAIT, WAIT, WAIT before feeding again. At least two weeks and if it were me, I'd wait three!! Then feed VERY small prey item. If it regurges again then Vet would be in order for sure. If it keeps it down, wait a week and feed ANOTHER very small prey item. Wait one more week then feed a third very small prey item. After three weeks of very small prey items, then slowly work it up to normal size items.

Snakes being ectotherms need VERY little food to survive, most food intake goes toward growing. I had a baby last year that refused to eat for the first 4 plus months of it's life. It's fine now with a bit of work to get it kick started.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB, selectively bred from good stock)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
11.24 BRB
10.16 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats