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Please help! Baby snake regurgitated!
My baby snake, Donut, currently weighs 50 grams and she has just regurgitated. She seemed to be digesting just fine for about 48 hours, but she just spit out a solid, whole rat that looks almost identical to how it looked when I first thawed it.
I have read that after regurgitation, snakes should not be fed for 2 weeks, however, this is cause for concern since she is very young and has not eaten for 2 weeks already. At this point in time, is it viable to have my snake go 4 weeks without food? Should I contact a vet?
Here are some details:
I purchased her on 11/18/18 (from a Petsmart). At the time, she was 4–12 weeks old.
She was last fed on 11/15/18. I fed her a medium-sized mouse on 11/25/18.
The girth of the mouse was roughly the same girth as the thickest part of Donut's body, possibly a bit bigger.
I have moved her someone frequently between two different setups since I read that it can be good practice to feed ball pythons in a separate feeding container.
Her primary housing is a 20-gal terrarium that I kept at a gradient of 96/88 warm and 77/71 cool with a humidity that fluctuated between 40-80%. It's been very difficult to maintain humidity conditions since the terrarium has an open mesh top, and the humidity in my city and room has been fluctuating between 5%–89%.
The feeding container we used was a 6qt sterilite plastic container. I kept her in there for the first 24 hours of feeding and then moved her to the 20-gal terrarium since it had a warmer temperature.
After another 24 hours, I came home from work and checked in on her before eating dinner. When I returned from dinner, she had regurgitated the rat she had eaten two days ago.
I have since adapted the feeding container to serve as a more permanent housing solution. I sterilized and rinsed the 6qt sterilite with rubbing alcohol, filled it with about 3 inches of aspen shavings, added a 6"x4" hide and a small water bowl and attached a UTH to the bottom. At the warmest temperature, the thermostat gave me a reading of 102 degrees. The ambient temperature at the center of the tub reads 75.6. The humidity currently reads 99%.
My current plan is to leave her be for the next 2 weeks in the sterilite pretty much undisturbed in a mostly dark area of my room before attempting to feed her again, at which point in time, I will probably feed her a smaller mouse, possibly a live one.
Any advice or further suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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