Regurgitation: please HELP

Side note: to keep stress to an absolute minimum, would you recommend no handling during the next 2 weeks?

Only what is needed for cleaning and changing water.

Have you ordered the ReptiBAC yet?

No, not yet but I can. My husband and I will be out today but will look into it asap.

Did you handle him within 24 hours after a meal? That's the only time I've had one of my snakes regurgitate. After a feeding I wait at least 24 hours to handle and only to move to another tub for cleaning and spraying substrate with water, usually I'll wait at least 3 days to really handle a snake. I would at least wait a week before trying again and with no handling at all.

Can you post a photo of your snake and enclosure? I'd like to see how skinny he is.

I posted original pictures of him on a thread about a week and a half ago.

And no. I have a standard rule of no handling for at least 48 hours after eating, more if the meal was on the larger side. :)

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Originally Posted by VanSickel_Balls

The same ball python in rescued from Petco recently ate his third meal. Live, constricted and eaten all on his own. Great! Except just now I checked in on him and he regurgitated his rat fuzzy.
I know the first thing people recommend is checking husbandry, heat, humidty, etc. These thing should be on point, so my concern is actually when I can tell feeding him again.
I saw someone say that because regurgitation is so hard on the body, to wait a few weeks before trying again? I hope not, because this little guy can't go too much longer without food. He weighed 46 grams when I brought him home, after 2 successful meals weighed 51, and is now back down to 49 grams. He looks so skinny....
I know that him being a petstore rescue there's just a good chance he may not make it because he was so unhealthy beforehand...
He desperately needs to gain weight.
Any advice?

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D: .... poor guy... I hope he makes it... I hate pet stores... I got lucky with my little BP... I went back to the same store today to pick up new supplies and a pretty banana was in there at 35% off sale... You could see the ridges of his spine... (they only work with males)

They were the ones who told me mouse fuzzies were great for ball python hatchlings.... because if you measure the girth of the snake vs the girth of the fuzzie... I believed them for a bit... Almost starved my little baby. Fortunately I got properly corrected. :)

Maybe something scared him?


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Actually I think a mouse fuzzy may work for a ball python hatchling, but you would have to feed twice a week at least. One of the main problems with pet stores is that they usually refuse to feed live. Live rat pups are the best, baby ball pythons go bonkers over them. And I've found that usually once you get them eating live rat pups you can transition to fresh killed and then to frozen thawed pretty easily. I think everyone should try to get their snakes away from live and over to fresh killed or frozen thawed, just so if they sell their snake or give it away the new owners will have the option without having to feed live.

It was pretty clear those poor babies needed live prey. Some were so small it wouldn't suprise me if they hadn't had a first meal yet. Definitely not okay. Most hatchlings require live prey to trigger feeding response.