STill no POOP! :(

Okay so I have been asking on forums for months now, why has my snake not pooped? In like 2 or 3 month.. SO I went and give her a 25min bath tonight, and NOTHING..

She still URates fine, but no poop..

Should I be worried yet?

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What's the weight and size of both snake and prey?

20-30gram mice every 7 days.
she's 400 gram and just over a ft long.

I've heard of it taking a while sometimes, but I would probably call the vet about 2 or 3 months. That's just seems weird that she still urates regularly.. :weirdface

Anywho, good luck! I never thought I would wish for poo for someone, but here ya go. lol.

haha! Thanks :)

She generally poops when she sheds, but she shed last week with no result :/

I really have never wished for poop myself, but I do hope she poops lol!

my local vet is about an hour or two away, I'll give them a call, but they probably wont give me advise unless I visit.. And even so, the advise they give me probably wont be as good as advise from you guys, professionals..

somtimes when i gently squeeze and slide downward on my snake's lower half a few times in a row he gets really relaxed and pooooos. umm and i know this because i found out the hard way when giving him a bath one day... yyyep. :P

Im hoping shes just getting all the goodness from the mice, when I got her last year she had not eaten for like 3 months and was 50 grams or so, now shes about 400 grams and has never refused a meal for me..

Well that's good that you haven't had any feeding problems; they can be so frustrating. But it doesn't seem healthy for her to keep taking more in and not gettin any out, haha. My snake has been refusing to eat lately, actually. It's been about a month now, but I've never had problems with her before. So I'm getting worried. She does have scale rot right now, and I'm hoping that she's just stressed out from that and doesn't have some internal problem. I've offered her a mice today and yesterday, and she watches it intently and follows its movements around the cage, but never eats it; she confuses me. :confused:

Uhh sorry, didn't mean to write a book! :oops:

haha thats okay :) I wish you all the best with her :)

Haha thanks so much. :)

I'd be giving her larger prey. 400g snake and I'd give her 40 gram rats until she gets to small rat size.

I can get larger mice, but I can't get a supply of rats :/ the only local shop is like 1 hour away =/ I'll look into 40gram mice though :) There should be a feeding chart on this site, is there?

Bump.. When should I really start to worry?

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Originally Posted by GTKeeper

Okay so I have been asking on forums for months now, why has my snake not pooped? In like 2 or 3 month.. SO I went and give her a 25min bath tonight, and NOTHING..

She still URates fine, but no poop..

Should I be worried yet?

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Was she really active in the bath? You may want to either make the water deeper in the bath (so she swims more) or increase the length of time in the bath (1 hour or a little longer).

I haven't had a problem with constipation in my BPs, but when I've needed to help with bad sheds, I've found the more and longer they move their bodies, their bowels follow suit.

Another thought might be that she's dehydrated and having trouble.

What type of substrate do you have in her viv? Do you feed her in their or another container? Is it possible she could have ingested any substrate?