Re: My Hatchling Is Finally Eating, But Is He Emaciated?
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wolfy-hound
The larger food size will take longer to digest, and if the temps are too low, that increases the time it takes to digest... both of which give the food plenty of time to rot inside the belly. My guess would be this. Smaller prey, slightly higher temps and he should go back to regular poops.
The horrible smell is key here, because it didn't get properly digested. It's a disgusting odor for sure.
Yeah i had given him around 5 days to digest his food but i guess he likes the warmer temperatures. The smaller prey though isn't possible he isn't eating mice i can gurantee you on that! I'm not just being cheap, Jörmungandr with mice is like having your toddler eat all his broccoli. Haha he seemed more scared of the mice pinkies than if they were actual food :D. Rat pinkies won't be a big enough meal for him ether but he's big enough to begin eating fuzzies which seem better for a snakes digestive system? (I've read Ball python's have better time keeping poop compact when the animal has fur than vice versa). His poop did smell but i wouldn't describe it as smelling of death (rotting food) more like when you go to chipotle and get E Coli that type of smelly poop :D.
