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So I have a trio of het albinos, and one female didnt keep her meal down, she is about 13 inches, but when I got her she seemed fine, I gave her six days to adjust before feeding, should I give her another week or so? the ambient temp is at 84, cool at 79, and hot spot is at 89-90, humidity is at 65% and she attacked the food with a massive feeding response, ate it and two days later she threw it up, her sibling female, ate her mouse( the female that kept her mouse down arrived a week earlier), Now I dont make alot of money, and have bred normal balls and hatched 3 out of 5 eggs in a hovabator, but I saved the money to go top of the line with products and a nice incubator, also to buy the snakes, and they are from a highly recomended breeder, So what do you all think? I know this sounds like a newbie question, but I am no newbie I have been on this forum for a few years, and am just worried that I may have a snake die and want to know if there is anything I can do to prevent that, This is the first time I have ever had a snake regurge
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tony butler

...hatchling ball...my 2 sets of twins last year were about 13-14"...I offer baby balls 93-94F at the hot spot (over 3"/6 watt FW) with cool end ave 85F day 82F night...and I offer small meals for the first 4-5 meals to give their guts time to adjust and strengthen...especially small babies...I'd give this one 4-5 days off then make it a smaller meal with a warmer hot spot and you should be good-to-go. Good luck!

Scott J. Michaels DVM
Serpent City

She took a frozen thawed hopper, and she got it down with no problem, should I give her a fuzzy? Also was the temps at 93-94 hotspot and 85 cool end? I am in the process of setting it to that now, it should be at those temps in about 15 minutes
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tony butler

You shouldn't have to go smaller than a hopper to get her to keep it down. Since you say you aren't a newbie I won't even ask about handling. The only thing other than temps that I can imgaine it would be are stress or internal parasites. Hopefully not the latter.

Cole Maas

I am not handling her at all, I think she is very stressed, I have been thinking if she doesnt keep the second mouse down on friday, then should I take the regurged mouse into the vet and have them check it for parasites?
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tony butler