Sharing regurgitated food

[Mysnakeislong]

Okay so one of my ball pythons regurgitated his food after like 5 minutes (idk why), and I just fed the regurgitated rat to another ball python. I want to know if this is bad or if it doesn't matter. I honestly just didn't feel like wasting the rat, but if it puts another one of my ball pythons health at risk in feeding regurgitated food to it from a different snake then I guess I'll just throw out the rat from now on.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

It was spitted back out not regurgitated the way we mean it when we talk about snake regurgitating.

Ask yourself is it worth it to feed it to another snake? Yes there are risks involved let's say snake #1 has the beginning of a RI which has not been caught yet, now you feed another snake a prey that came in contact with snake #1 saliva.

While this is an hypothesis cross contamination is very real, now ultimately it's up to you to see if it is worth it to take a chance.

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[For Goodness Snakes]

I wouldn't worry about it at all.

Brian

[AntTheDestroyer]

This seems like a terrible idea to me for the simple there is good chance there is a good reason the first regurgitated the rat. The first reason is that the snake is sick and now you have most likely spread the sickness. Secondly maybe there is something wrong with the rat which could lead to several issues with your snake. None of these reasons are worth the $3 you spent on a rat.

[Slim]

I just fed the regurgitated rat to another ball python.

Read that sentence back to yourself a couple of times....

No. Just, no.

[PitOnTheProwl]

Why would you even risk doin that??

[chrid16371]

This question should of been asked before you did it, not after....obviously you knew there could be a risk that's why you asked the question....I look at it this way when a snake refuses, if it would of ate the rat it would of been gone anyways so why not just throw it out. If it was a simply refusal then yes you could of fed it to another but since they had there mouth on it then no it's a bad idea.

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[ceh23]

Lesson learned for next time. Not a good idea.


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[Mysnakeislong]

Yepppp. Well anyways replies sometimes take a while on here i.e. why I didn't ask beforehand. The other snake ate it anyways and my snake that regurged is healthy so it's all good, but yeah I'll probably avoid the cross-contamination possibility if it ever happens again.

[For Goodness Snakes]

I wouldn't worry about it at all.

Brian

I hope it's OK to change your mind on this forum.

After giving your situation a little more thought and after reading the other very logical comments, I too agree that it is probably not a good idea to share food that has possibly been contaminated by another snake.

Old dogs can learn new tricks.

This is a great Forum.

Brian