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Hello everybody I have a nice female albino and I fed her a couple of day ago and when I went out there today she puked up the rat it was not a big rat by any means.So what I am getting at is what do I do? I really need to figure this problem out any help will be appreciated

1. Check husbandry, temps, humidity, cleanliness, hides, lights etc.

2. what substrate, could it have been ingested?

3. WAIT 2 weeks before attempting to feed SMALL meal.

4. Make sure it has access to plenty of clean water.

How long have you had it? First time feeding or long term in your collection?

How does it look otherwise? Mouth problems? Listless? If all looks normal. Monitor for two weeks then feed small meal.

Snakes are very hardy creatures, they don't really need much food to survive, even newborn babies could go months with no food from birth and still be fine. Duh, not recommended, just pointing out that a couple of weeks without food will not hurt a snake, even a couple of months should not hurt one. Just slows growth till food is available. I see it time and time again where somebody posts about regurging and rushing into feeding again. there are digestive bacteria and stuff that the snake needs to digest. when it regurges, it looses at least some of it. Best to wait and let the natural digestive bacteria regenerate.
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 Het for Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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Gus
A. Rentfro
RioBravoReptiles.com
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Thanks I got this girl from barry berg and this is the first time I have had a problem with her I keep her in a rack and the temp is normally about 82-85 I will continue to monitor her as she was an expensive snake for me and I would like to keep her around for a good long time.
Thank-You guys for all your help I will keep you posted

The responses are all good. If I can add one thing. Take the water out before feeding and do not put is back in for at least 3 or 4 days. This removes the possibility of soaking in cooler water thus impeding digestion. I have experienced this first hand. I have an albino that went through the same thing, scared the heck out of me. Its now 5' and doing great. Don't lose any sleep over it.