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Greetings:

I have a 2007 bloodred corn who was eating 2 med pinky mice 2x/week (Thurs and Sun). My bf recently made one of those feedings 2 fuzzy mice (who were barely bigger than the pinkies), with no problem. on 7/27, he fed her 3 fuzzy mice. Since then, on 7/29 and again this morning, I'm finding that she's pooped, and it's orangeish/reddish... Otherwise, she's alert active, and seems fine. Is this any indication that we might have done some damage to her in feeding too much?

Concerned,
Antigone

did he actually see her poo this stuff?? b/c it sounds like regurge
~kin
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As Kin already mentioned, I'm also thinking it's probably regurgitated meals. It sounds from the dates given like you are pushing it to feed WAY too often. A meal that shows a "SLIGHT" lump to it's mid-section every four-five days is plenty substancial for optimum growth.

The WORST THING you could do right now is to offer it more food!,...DO NOT feed it anything at all for an entire week(7-8 days)!!!!!, this is EXTREMELY important that you let the acids, enzymes, electrolytes and natural gut flora replentish itself back to normal so that the snake will be able to digest properly at the end of this one week period, otherwise it will only cause the small delicate snake to regurge again in a very dangerous "domino effect", and can quickly lead to certain death if it isn't given time to get its stomach back in order.

One other VERY IMPORTANT thing to remember!,....at the end of this one week period, offer a very SMALL meal to help make sure it can be held down,....then wait five days and offer another fairly small pink to reassure the stomach is back in proper order. After several of these SMALLER food items have been held down and digested properly, you can slowly increase the size,..but keep in mind, a young hatchling should ONLY be offered ONE pink per meal every 4 days or so,........the prey item should only be big enough for you to see a slight lump in the mid-section, not stretch the skin drastically between each scale!,....that is usually too big for a young snake to be fed twice a week.

best regards, ~Doug
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Greetings:

Thank you for the reply. Is it possible for them to regurg. so late? This wasn't right after feeding but a few days after.
Last poop was more brown, but still lighter than normal, and it's all been much smellier lately.

We weren't trying to powerfeed. We'll try taking her and our baby rat snake off food for a week and then start small as you suggested. They both ate already on Thursday, so we'll feed again a week from Sunday.

Antigone

THEY can regurge up to the next feeding depending how big the food is and how often you were feeding.. looks like you were feeding every 2 days. you should really feed once a week or at MOST 2x a week. Poo isnt really stinky or red its browns blacks and whites with yellow(white and yellow are urates) but thats what sounds like happened.... belly was too full... you kept offering food... throw up...
~kin
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