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I came home today to find that one of my yearling BRBs (a 66% poss het anery) regurged. I'm not quite sure what to do next. The only thing that is not 100% perfect with her cage is that we have had a heat wave here lately and no air conditioning. Could warm temps be the culprit? I bought an air conditioner for my snakes a few days ago and am going to install it tonight and I'll definitely put her in that room. She has never done this before. I don't think her meal was too big (fuzzy rat), and I know it was about 10 days since the last time she had eaten, so I know it wasn't too often. I know to hold off on feeding her again right away, but how long? And I know to reduce her food size, but how small? Anyway, I'd be interested to here input on if the heat could be the reason and what my next move should be. Thanks in advance everyone!! You guys are so SO helpful in these situations!!
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6.19 BRB
10.20 BCI
1.1 Mandarin Rat Snakes
0.1 Kenyan Sand Boa
0.2 Corn Snakes
2.8 Leopard Geckos

Excessive heat can cause a regurge.

Regardless of why, wait at least two weeks before feeding again. Go with a 1/2 of normal (or even smaller) prey item. More of a snack than a meal. Let her digest that for two weeks before feeding again. Go with a few cycles of the small prey items before slowly working her back up to normal.

All to often people will rsh the process and get right back into the mess.

Also there is a product called benebac (sp?) it's supposed to help replenish the useful digestive bacteria that is lost with the regurge.

>>I came home today to find that one of my yearling BRBs (a 66% poss het anery) regurged. I'm not quite sure what to do next. The only thing that is not 100% perfect with her cage is that we have had a heat wave here lately and no air conditioning. Could warm temps be the culprit? I bought an air conditioner for my snakes a few days ago and am going to install it tonight and I'll definitely put her in that room. She has never done this before. I don't think her meal was too big (fuzzy rat), and I know it was about 10 days since the last time she had eaten, so I know it wasn't too often. I know to hold off on feeding her again right away, but how long? And I know to reduce her food size, but how small? Anyway, I'd be interested to here input on if the heat could be the reason and what my next move should be. Thanks in advance everyone!! You guys are so SO helpful in these situations!!
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>>6.19 BRB
>>10.20 BCI
>>1.1 Mandarin Rat Snakes
>>0.1 Kenyan Sand Boa
>>0.2 Corn Snakes
>>2.8 Leopard Geckos
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

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

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Temps are a key in BRB care, and too hot is not good. Thus, this could easily be the issue. A temp gun is key in easily monitoring temps. Also, with the heat wave are your using a good thermostat to keep from adding more heat to the heat issue?

10 days seems like a while for a regurg. I would think that it would have digested most of the rat. Was the regurg stinky, slimy and looked like the rat?
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Mike

7.13 BRB
1.2 Spotted Python
1.0 Cal. King

They are on a good thermostat, so heaters are not adding to the issue. I have been using the heat gun to check the temps and a fan to try to lower it, but it just wasn't doing the trick. That's why I got an air conditioner for them. I got it all hooked up in my snake room, so the problem should be corrected, I just didn't get it done fast enough. Well, at least I know what the problem was and that it can be fixed (and hopefully already has been).
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6.19 BRB
10.20 BCI
1.1 Mandarin Rat Snakes
0.1 Kenyan Sand Boa
0.2 Corn Snakes
2.8 Leopard Geckos

10 days seems like a long time. Maybe she passed a hair ball instead of puked a fresh meal? Did it stink? Once in awhile I'll find what looks like it may be a puke, but it seems to be a hair ball. I've pulled them apart, there's no stink and there's nothing to them other than hair. If it was stinky, it was a puke, see puke advice. 10 days tho, I'm thinking maybe its the same thing I see that I think is passed hair. Those dont seem to bother mine at all.
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Julie

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Sorry, I meant it was 10 days since her previous meal, her last meal was on the 5th. My point was I wasn't "power feeding" or anything close to it. And I'm sure it was a regurge. It looked like the mouse I fed her, except a bit bloated and the front quarter looked digested. It smelled like death... that very distinct smell that everyone smells when something crawls into their crawl space to die, or for this crowd, when a snake refuses their meal and a mouse ends up in the garbage and trash pickup isn't for a few days... ewwww! It had to be a regurge. I feed my snakes in tubs and there's no way for a mostly undigested mouse to get in there.
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6.19 BRB
10.20 BCI
1.1 Mandarin Rat Snakes
0.1 Kenyan Sand Boa
0.2 Corn Snakes
2.8 Leopard Geckos

Ahh...yea, I know that stink. lol. Thankfully there are plenty of animals around this house to eat any snake-refused dead things so I dont have the trash can problem. My late mink was the best of the group, he could power through 3 XL mice in about 5 minutes flat. Piggy beast!
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Julie

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I usually pass any uneatens to the next as well, but I had that hypo sonoran with the uri, if she refused (and periodically she did), it was trash time. I wasn't going to risk it!

Thanks everyone for the advice. I'm not going to worry too much about it, just correct the problem and space her small meals way out for a while. I know she won't do it again *crosses all fingers and toes*. She is now in her air conditioned room (73 degrees) with her thermostat working an nice 79-80 on the warm end. I just wish I could have gotten that AC unit hooked up a day sooner! Live and learn I guess...
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6.19 BRB
10.20 BCI
1.1 Mandarin Rat Snakes
0.1 Kenyan Sand Boa
0.2 Corn Snakes
2.8 Leopard Geckos

Sounds good and keep us posted on your progress!! (I know, will be slow and long - but better that than another regurge)
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

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

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats