What The H E L L!!!

[Adam Chandler]

I see you posted this under General Herp. Is this a BP your are talking about or another kind of snake?

For BP's just double check your husbandry (especially making sure your BP has a warm spot with a 88-93 degree surface temp). Do not attempt to feed your BP again for at least 2 weeks. The enzymes in his stomach need time to rebalanced themselves. If you attempt to feed before 2 weeks you run a high risk of having it happen again.

BP regurgitations tend to be the result of prey items being too big, not completely thawed out, handling the BP after their meal, or inadequate heat to help the BP digest their meal.

[dmcminn]

He is a full size BP - I feed him live Med. And I will let him settle, I was wondering if it was something more that i need to worry about. Thanks for ALL the input - This has not happened to him and @ 230 in the AM i was freaked out.

[rabernet]

Did you actually confirm that he had eaten the rat? Or did you just see that he had constricted it, and didn't check back later?

A dead, unconsumed rodent will start to smell horribly.

If you believe that he did regurgitate, then don't feed him for another 2 weeks, you need to allow his stomach flora to build back up, so that he doesn't regurgitate again.

[dmcminn]

Did you actually confirm that he had eaten the rat? Or did you just see that he had constricted it, and didn't check back later?

A dead, unconsumed rodent will start to smell horribly.

If you believe that he did regurgitate, then don't feed him for another 2 weeks, you need to allow his stomach flora to build back up, so that he doesn't regurgitate again.

He did get him down - I was wondering if the rat was a bad one ??? It had looked like the shop that i go to had just got in a batch of rats. Again I don't no.