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This was in my cornsnake's cage when I went to clean it out this evening. I can't tell which end it came out. She eats 1-2 hoppers every 5-7 days. The hot side of her cage is 82-85 on the floor and cool site about 70.

I have 2.2 corns, 2.2 mex blk kings, 1.1 grey bands and 1.1 black milks. Her and her brother were born in 04 and they are the only two that I see this from. Tonights looks so bad it motivated me to take this picture.....BTW, the attached substrate is carefresh.

What is this??

Thanks
Jeff

What you have there is the abdominal viscera of a mouse with a bunch of hair. The nasty coily stuff is the small intestine with associated mesentery (that's why is looks so ruffled and less tubular). The dark brown tissue poking out the left side is liver and you may be able to see a bit of large intestine/colon. Because a mouse is mainly herbivorous it needs a lot of digesting space (roughage is hard for any animal to break down) hence the very long small intestine. These structures are composed of soft tissue with little protection from chemical digestion on the outside layer (mesentery is just 2 cell layers with some intervening connective tissue) thus this material had to be regurgitated before too much digestion had taken place. I'd be curious to see if there were any bones in there or whether only the soft portions of the mouse came back up.

Hope this helped. Now lets see if I can apply the information to human guts on my anatomy exam next monday

Wait a couple weeks before you feed again.Then slow down on feeding...Paul
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Do you think it is necessarily regurge? I have seen my corn leave similar presents, but with urates so I figured it had to be from his back end.
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I don't think it's regurge. I think there are urates in that pic. Look all the way to the left and you'll spot a beige area that does look like urates. That pic looked fairly normal to me. My snake has grown from 15 inches to 38 inches in the year that I have had him and his "little presents" look pretty much like that pic. I feed him every 6 or 7 days on a small rat (4.5 inches less tail length).

Thanks to all! I will start feeding every 10 days and see if it helps.....ugh! I can't even look at that pic w/out gagging