Cali king regurgitated

My poor little guy regurgitated his food. I've had him for 2weeks. He's about 16 inches. His first meal went fine, he ate and it stayed down, but the second didn't. Both times he had F/T pinky. How long should I wait to feed him again? :(

I would wait a week to 10 days, as long as he is in healthy shape, it will give him time to build back up his stomach digestive acids. Mine did that too, when he ate right before gong into shed. maybe he is getting ready to do that also. Just keep an eye on him. If his eyes cloud, don't feed him, let him shed first.

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This may sound weird, but I live by it! I had a friend buy f/t pinks for her snake. She got what I called a bad f/t pinkie and the snake... died. The snake was a corn snake that was bred by Cathy Love. It was a great little guy!

So what I now live by now is I buy ALL my snakes food items live, kill them off myself and write the date I got them/killed them. Just so I KNOW that when I killed them, they were all alive and kicking. When you buy a f/t prey item from a pet store you do not know why that or how that thing died. It could have been sick and died and someone could just just thrown it in the freezer, etc.


I'd wait atleast 10 days... maybe even 15 days before trying another feeding. Next time you might want to try a HALF of a pinkie!

If any of mine regurge I skip a week then offer the food again. Offer the smallest pinky you can find.

Kings and other colubrids usually recover from regurges very well.

Thanks. Otherwise he's doing really well and looking good. I usually always buy live food for my snakes but it's so hard to get live pinkies around here. I will look around this weekend though because I haven't been happy with the feeders at this petstore lately.

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Originally Posted by lillyorchid

Okay...

This may sound weird, but I live by it! I had a friend buy f/t pinks for her snake. She got what I called a bad f/t pinkie and the snake... died. The snake was a corn snake that was bred by Cathy Love. It was a great little guy!

So what I now live by now is I buy ALL my snakes food items live, kill them off myself and write the date I got them/killed them. Just so I KNOW that when I killed them, they were all alive and kicking. When you buy a f/t prey item from a pet store you do not know why that or how that thing died. It could have been sick and died and someone could just just thrown it in the freezer, etc.


I'd wait atleast 10 days... maybe even 15 days before trying another feeding. Next time you might want to try a HALF of a pinkie!

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Allison, no disrespect meant but really... aren't you overreacting just a smidge? if you get food poisening, then will you no longer eat any meat that has been raised and butchered by someone else?

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it's important to allow your snake to have no stress after a regurge. so no handling at all. leave it for a minimum of 10 days before attempting to feed again and find the smallest prey item possible. since it's already on pinks i would suggest 1/2 a pink. continue to feed the smaller prey items for another 3 feedings before you bump back up to a pink.

once they regurge... if they regurge again... it's bad news... my corn had some regurging in june/july but he's doing better now.

Theres always a reason for a regurge, could be too large of a food item, to hot or to cold. or maybe handling to soon after a meal. and the worst thing would be crypto. There are alot of things to consider, check your environmental conditions first. And good luck. :)

He's in 10 gal tank right now, but he has lots of places to hide and burrow because he's on aspen. Temps are 90 on the hot side and 80 on the cool. Do I still need a UTH with those temps, because he doesn't have one right now.

Wait for around a week and try again. I've never had a problem with f/t mice/rats, but then again I get mine from a guy who kills them and freezes them himself.

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Thanks. Otherwise he's doing really well and looking good. I usually always buy live food for my snakes but it's so hard to get live pinkies around here. I will look around this weekend though because I haven't been happy with the feeders at this petstore lately

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I am a bit shocked that you live in such a big town as Toronto and there is not one snake-store around. I mean ... I live in the littlest hicka** town in america and we have a snake-store with great variety of mice & rats.

Don't rely on Petco, Petsmart, etc ...

Just look around. There has to be someplace.

I was looking around in the yellowpages.ca and found this place called The Menagerie Pet Shop who say that "We also [have] frozen and live rodents in numerous sizes". Try giving them a call, they might hook you up.

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He's in 10 gal tank right now, but he has lots of places to hide and burrow because he's on aspen. Temps are 90 on the hot side and 80 on the cool. Do I still need a UTH with those temps, because he doesn't have one right now.

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how are you keeping those temps? heat lamp?

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I was looking around in the yellowpages.ca and found this place called The Menagerie Pet Shop who say that "We also [have] frozen and live rodents in numerous sizes". Try giving them a call, they might hook you up.

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That's exactly where I went yesterday and was very disappointed. They don't have live pinkies either, and the snakes' enclosures were very dirty as well. i bought a bag of bark from them, but when i got home i dumped it all in the garbage as it was crawling with bugs. I'll just stick with aspen, thank you.

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Originally Posted by ballpnoob

I am a bit shocked that you live in such a big town as Toronto and there is not one snake-store around. I mean ... I live in the littlest hicka** town in america and we have a snake-store with great variety of mice & rats.

Don't rely on Petco, Petsmart, etc ...

Just look around. There has to be someplace.

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It's true, not a snake store around. We have Petsmart and PJ's Pets (that's where i bought a couple of mice last week one of which did not survive by next day). I have to travel out of this big city just to get proper snake stuff or order online.

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how are you keeping those temps? heat lamp?

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Yeah, it is a ceramic heatlamp w/ infrared heat bulb. I since got a dimmer, so he has a much wider temp range if he chooses.

I had a similar incident when I first go my cali king. Did you defrost the pinky in warm water ? I keep my king at 80 - 90 temperature gradient to insure proper digestion.

Yep, I defrosted it in warm water and made sure it was warm enough for him and not too hot either. The temps he's in now is 75 - 95. I fed him again since, bought him new F/T pinkies, the smallest possible. Looks like this time he'll be ok.