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I have a pair of 07 Deppeis I have had them for about a month.I keep them in a small plastic box with temps of 75 at night close to 80 during the day. They have both regurged on me twice now. After the first time I waited about 10 days and feed them a smaller pink. Held it down for 2 day and then regurded again. Do they need a aditional heat source to digest?
Any info would be great.
Thanks

actually, they need less heat as mexican pines don't tolerate heat well being a montane species. they fare well & are best kept at room temp. you have your work cut out for you now w/ 2 rergurges as they're in a fragile state. good luck.....

Anytime you have a snake regurge I personally would wait a minimum of two weeks before feeding again and since yours have regurged twice already I would wait a solid 3 weeks to let their systems calm down before feeding a very small meal and then progress very slowly. I'm with Dan in that I would never force a deppei deppei to stay at 80 degrees for ANY amount of time. It wont hurt them to have access to that but they should always have a cool side in the low 70's. Randy W.

You mentioned a smaller pink. I assume that is a pinky mouse and not a pinky rat right?

Also, I agree with the others about lowering the temps. I keep mine at about 73 to 75 on the cool side and 85 ish on the warm side. He has a hide on both sides and basically lives on the cool side. He is doing very well and thriving.

One last thing, are you housing them together or separately? I would think they would do better with each one in their own container.

Who did you buy them from? They should be able to provide you with a basic care sheet. Sounds like your husbandry is off.

Good luck.

Try feeding it a live pinkie rat, that always does the trick.

WHAT????? I'm sorry but did you actually read his post? RW