I had recently purchased a fem blood motley baby from a rep dealer, she ate her first two meals but the third she ate right before she shed and then regurgitated after shedding. I'm assuming I should wait 10 days before attempting to feed again and is it common for babies to vomit during a shed or should I be worried?
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regurgitation
wbcrows
Sep 30, 2011 07:10 AM
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DMong
Sep 30, 2011 10:25 AM
It was probably a pretty large meal in comparison to the snake's size, and the bottom surface temp of it's enclosure was also probably a bit too cool for it to be able to properly digest the meal. This typically causes them to regurge around the second day as the meal rots in their gut instead of being properly digested.
Aside from also having a cooler side, they also need to be able to seek surface temps of 82-86 on one end ONLY (approx 1/3rd or so) of their enclosure to accomplish this.
Anyway, YES!, you need to wait for around 8 or more days to even attempt another feeding, or it will repeat the regurgitating due to the lack of stomach acids, enzymes, and electrolytes that it lost in the previous regurge. Also, the meal should be substantially smaller to help ensure this doesn't happen again and that it's system is functioning properly again. After several smaller feedings you can then gradually up the size to a more proportionately sized meal for it's size, but not too large.
cheers, ~Doug
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a153fish
Oct 01, 2011 01:35 PM
Yeah baby corns seem to be very prone to regurging with large meals at first. I had a few that I had purchased inluding my specters that had me worried, cause they would regurge about every third or fourth meal. So I started feeding them smaller pinks untill they went for a while without a regurge. Then started slowly increasing meal size, and now they are eating small mice with no problem. I was probably trying to push them a little too hard, so I can breed them next year. Some corns seem to be inestructable, and start eating large meals and never look back. Yet others are more delicate, and need a little TLC. Good luck!
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