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My 7 year old Snow bull was making some weird sounds the other day, and as I turned around and watched, he vomited a full rat tail. I fed him the same sized rat I always feed him (adult) about 5 days earlier. I thought WTF and refreshed his water bowl and just watched him (he hissed at me-never does that.) Today, 2 days later he's cruising around, flickin' his tongue and looking fine. Has anyone ever heard of this type of thing happening? I am going to wait 3 weeks to feed him again (usually 2.)

That is weird that just the tail was vomited, but am assuming he digested the rest of the rat? Maybe turn up his heater; after all it is now well into December.

I have had pits digest some of the mice but barf up the others in a feeding of multiple items. I now routinely keep the hot spot in their warm hide in the mid 90's Fahrenheit and have no more barfing of any sort. Pits seem to need it hotter than my pyros, who do fine in an 80's F hot spot. In fact all my pyros are brumating now, but several of my pits are still up and feeding. I kind of wish they were all brumating as the expense of running the heaters in the winter is more. But most of them are babies and want to eat.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

and I'm not letting him? 1/3 of the floor in his 90" cage is heated 85 degrees (Ultratherms) but he rarely gets on it. I live in Central Florida so it doesn't get real cold ever.

Any odd fluctuations of temperature during digestion i.e; hotter or colder than normal? If previously frozen could the rat have been "freezer burnt" in some manner. Regardless, I'd go smaller on the rat next time and see if things run a normal course. You could check for protozoa in the gut but I'd try a small rat or fat mouse up front.

I will definately go smaller next feeding. It may have something to do with freezer burn. that rat was about 10 months old and it was the largest one he has had-I usually give him two mediums, but it'm trying to balance my mediums and large's till next order (January.)