Okay, so I came home from work today and there was what appeared to be a very large diarrhea in the corner of my large females tub. Immediately, though very disgusted, I took the tub to my bathroom for a good cleaning. Upon inspection of the diarrhea (a task that was quite nauseating) I discovered lots of remaining rat bones and hair. I also found a FULL undigested rat tail in the mix. This lead me to believe the possibility of regurgitation.

The ball python was fed exactly 3 days ago (friday).


Heres the stitch;

yesterday (saturday), I realized that the heat pad heating her tub had shorted out or something and was no longer providing enough heat to the tub. I've never had this problem before. The last time I checked was about a week ago. I moved her into a smaller tub with working heat pad last night, and today is when I found the diarrhea/regurgitation.

so my questions are;

Is it possible that, due to lack of proper heating, did the rat not full digest and cause the diarrhea/regurgitation?

Or, is there the possibility of a greater issue with the snake, as this is the first time I have ever experienced diarrhea/regurgitation.