What should you do if BP vomits food that was too big?

What you can't prevent or clean up is the incredibly strong stomach acid that coats the inside of its esophagus and mouth as the rat comes back out. The clean up of the cage is pale in comparison to what the snake might go through.

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Originally Posted by MuicyJelon

If he doesn’t regurgitate it, decrease the size of food anyway?


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Most definitely. If it’s indeed a male as you say then the biggest meal it will ever need for the rest of its life is a rat half the size of the one it just ate


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First there is a difference between regurgitation and spitting a rat right back out because it is to big.

So what should you do depends on what happened.

If you are dealing with a regurgitation, which means the prey was already getting digested and regurgitated 12/24/36 hours later, you need to do a complete clean up and wait 2 week before attempting to feed again/

If the rat was just spitted back out immediately there is nothing to do, feed on schedule next week, at his size your BP especially if it is a male does not need a rat bigger than 50/65 grams.

Bottom line you need to learn to properly feed your animal, because they can take large prey (obviously not in this case) does not mean they need a large prey.

Even my males that are over 1000 grams do not get anything larger than 85 grams rats, keep this in mind for the future, they are overfed in captivity and fatty liver issue is a reality, this is not a race feed appropriately.

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Originally Posted by MattEvans

What you can't prevent or clean up is the incredibly strong stomach acid that coats the inside of its esophagus and mouth as the rat comes back out. The clean up of the cage is pale in comparison to what the snake might go through.

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I don’t know if he will do it, he might not I just wanted to know what to do if it happened. Probably just best decreasing the size rat.


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Originally Posted by Deborah

First there is a difference between regurgitation and spitting a rat right back out because it is to big.

So what should you do depends on what happened.

If you are dealing with a regurgitation, which means the prey was already getting digested and regurgitated 12/24/36 hours later, you need to do a complete clean up and wait 2 week before attempting to feed again/

If the rat was just spitted back out immediately there is nothing to do, feed on schedule next week, at his size your BP especially if it is a male does not need a rat bigger than 50/65 grams.

Bottom line you need to learn to properly feed your animal, because they can take large prey (obviously not in this case) does not mean they need a large prey.

Even my males that are over 1000 grams do not get anything larger than 85 grams rats, keep this in mind for the future, they are overfed in captivity and fatty liver issue is a reality, this is not a race feed appropriately.

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Thanks.
It was labelled small so I’m not happy about that.
I’m gonna reduce the size. If he keeps it down should I keep with the feeding schedule or leave it for a week.


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Originally Posted by MuicyJelon

Thanks.
It was labelled small so I’m not happy about that.
I’m gonna reduce the size. If he keeps it down should I keep with the feeding schedule or leave it for a week.


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My advice to new keepers when they are not conformable or used to eyeball prey size is to get a scale and weight the feeder before feeding.

It's takes time but after a while you can just look at a rat and guess it's size and whether or not it is a good match for your snake. :gj:

He will most likely be just fine with it. But if it were me I'd have no problem skipping a feed and waiting a week or more until my supplier has the right size rodents. I'd wait 2 weeks. A bigger rat is more fur and bigger bones to digest.

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Originally Posted by MuicyJelon

Thanks.
It was labelled small so I’m not happy about that.
I’m gonna reduce the size. If he keeps it down should I keep with the feeding schedule or leave it for a week.


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I would allow an extra week at least, for sure, before feeding again. He might just go into a shed cycle after this anyway. Wouldn't surprise me a bit...

Regurges are best avoided...waste of food and your $, but really hard on the snake, not to mention it smells like the "underworld", lol. Always better to error on the
smaller side for prey than to risk a regurge...& yes, I get that it was labeled "small", not blaming, just suggesting.

BTW, to answer your original question, noseplugs would be handy...:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by MuicyJelon

I didn’t force it down his throat. Just asking a question.


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And I never said you did. All my advice came from the information given in the original post. Just saying that there's no need to try to push any animal towards the next size up in prey.

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Originally Posted by Bogertophis

I would allow an extra week at least, for sure, before feeding again. He might just go into a shed cycle after this anyway. Wouldn't surprise me a bit...

Regurges are best avoided...waste of food and your $, but really hard on the snake, not to mention it smells like the "underworld", lol. Always better to error on the
smaller side for prey than to risk a regurge...& yes, I get that it was labeled "small", not blaming, just suggesting.

BTW, to answer your original question, noseplugs would be handy...:rolleyes:

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He just finished a shed on Saturday.


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