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My new red-multi female puked yesterday. She's every bit of 5 feet and I figured she would have no problems with a small rat (my male who is about the same size eats one every 10 days or so), so that's what I fed her last Wednesday. I started getting a little nervous when she still had a lump two days later - in my experience, that's almost always a sign of too big a meal with these guys. Anyway, only about half of it was digested when it came back up, so no food and lots of mistings for the next two weeks while her gut recovers. Next meal will be a rat pinky. I'll let everyone know how she does. Just goes to show even with 30 years experience, we can all still make mistakes. The other two new ones are doing great and the little blackie has already defecated so he will get another meal tonight. Billy

Best of luck. I'm sure you've got it under control.

what was the ambient temps?

Temps are fine with ntl's down around 73 and dth's around 85, humidity ranging around 60-70% with spikes after misting. It's simply a matter of feeding a relatively fresh import a food item that was too big. I should have known better......

>>what was the ambient temps?

just wanted to make sure you weren't keeping him too hot but you obviously know the rules.....its always fun to see a new snake accept food eagerly and "chill out" with a big lump in its belly....but I guess with imports its like feeding those starving kids in Africa, start them off with a normal sized American meal and you might kill them...

Good Luck, with your new Female Billy ! She should be OK, after a couple of week's with no food to get her system back on track ! Then small meal's every 7 Day's for awhile. Take Care !

Kenneth
omahasnakes@yahoo.com

Unfortunately, I've gone through this before so I know that patience and discipline are the keys to get her back on track. The only change in plan will be only feeding after a good defecation whether that's 5 days or 15 days. It's always worked for me in the past, so I'm confident she'll be fine. She has a terrific feeding response and good body weight, so even if I stretch her out to 21 days, she should be just fine. I just feel bad I screwed up and she has to suffer for it now. Billy

>>Good Luck, with your new Female Billy ! She should be OK, after a couple of week's with no food to get her system back on track ! Then small meal's every 7 Day's for awhile. Take Care !
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>>Kenneth
>>omahasnakes@yahoo.com

awsome colors on those guys man !!! im starting to love these guys more and more everyday !!! soooo many varieties in em !! its just crazy !!

talkin about yellow .. heres my fave yellow guy

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NO BEAUTY LIKE THE BEAUTY OF A TRUE REDTAIL !!

He is a "Looker" ! Are all your New Amazon's Feeding Good ? It wont be long and your "Litter of Amazon Neonate's will be taking there first meal" ! Im gonna be feeding my Adult Amazon's here in about an hour, and I'm gonna try and get some feeding pic.'s ! Take Care !
Kenneth
omahasnakes@yahoo.com

but when they 1st came in i did have a problem with a few of them as expected. from stress or parasites .. but after we are thru with them .. they look and eat like a million bucks
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NO BEAUTY LIKE THE BEAUTY OF A TRUE REDTAIL !!