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about how often should a snake regularly poop? if feed a good size meal and havent seen any poop in weeks is that a big problem? thanks for any tips!

Give the snake a warm (not hot) soak. Sometimes that makes them poop.
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If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

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it poops as often as it feels it needs to. something i've noticed is that most homes (at least here in san diego, may be true for you too) have had an ambient temperature drop. Hot spots have been tinkered with in some cases to stay the same, and in some cases they stayed the same due to a thermostat or other method. But the ambient in homes has dropped from 78 during the summer to 68 now that it's winter.
And everyone's snakes are suddenly pooping less often!

honestly, don't worry about it if your temps are up. i keep notecards that track my snakes' bowel movements (among other things!), and my biggest girls only go every two to three weeks even in summer, and one will stretch it to once a month or so. babies seem to go weekly, and the juvies are anywhere from weekly to as infrequently as the adults.

my tracking cards also include spots for high and low temps. i notice in my snakes a correlation to more infrequent poops with a drop in ambient temperature.

~jen
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"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."
- Anna Sewell (1820-1878)

Thank you very much for that helpful post!