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ok purchased a 1.0 08 at the WP Nov show. He ate the first week and then refused the next couple of weeks. this week i fed him a f/t in a cup and he ate it. Two days later he threw it up. The tank never goes below 60 on the cold side and the UTH keeps the warm side around 75. Am I doing anything wrong?

Ilost my first gray banded to non eating getting frustrated

I might be wrong, but with most subspecies of Lampropeltis getula, you want the "hot side" to reach about 85 F.

Again, I'm not sure if the gray-bandeds need cooler temps, but I would imagine the food needs proper digestion temps like any other snake.
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1.0.0 Lampropeltis getula holbrooki
0.1.0 Lampropeltis getula californae
0.0.1 Lampropeltis getula nigra
1.0.0 Lampropeltis mexicana thayeri
2.3.0 Eublapharis macularius macularius
0.0.2 Rhacodactylus ciliatus
0.1.0 Gerrhosaurus major major

That is way too cold. You need to have a gradient of maybe 75-90 in my opinion.
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Greg Jackson

I am all for keeping snakes cooler than some do, but even 75 on the warm side seems a tad bit cold.
Raise the temps on the warm side to 82 at the very least, and then also wait 7-10 days before feeding again, so the king can rejuvinate stomach juices, and then feed a very small meal for the first few meals to help him gradually get back to eating normal meals.
I hope your grayband gets better!
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