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How much is a dangerous amount of aspen swallowed? I just fed my beauty snake for the first time and I didn't want to take him out to feed him since he is still new so I put some thawed mice in a feeder box and put that in his tank. But he pulled the mice out to eat them and they got some aspen on them. How much aspen would he have to swallow to cause a probablem? I'm kinda worried.
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There's nothing you can do right now, so you may as well stop worrying. Snakes swallow aspen all the time and seem to survive it, although it can cause problems. Just try to avoid it in the future. While I feed most of my snakes in their tanks, I sort of hold the prey up off the aspen with hemostats until it is much of the way down. Sometimes when the snake gets feisty and yanks it away (and tries to "kill" it even though it is f/t!),
it gets some on it. I try to pick it off with the 'stats before it gets eaten, but am not always entirely successful. This morning my little snow corn got a wee bit of the stuff. I have had no problems in the past two years. Good luck. Duffy

I used to be real carefull...

but now and for the past ten years I hold the pray up but that's it. My snakes swallow the aspen bedding all the time... I guess. I've been using the same quality of aspen bedding for nearly 10 years now and I've never had a problem other than having to revone a piece of bedding from the corner of a snake's mouth every now and then. I pay more attention if the bedding is fresh (it's less compacted) or if the mouse is real wet and sticky. Like Duffy, I try remove as much of it as I can from the prey when there's lots on it, and I aslo, am not always succesfull in removing it all. Otherwise I just check once their done to make sure they're not frustratingly fighting to get rid of that piece jammed in the corner of their mouth.

Like Duffy said , may as well stop worrying

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