Valek x Pennywise progression thread

[cheosamad]

Still on this mouse kick with Pennywise and its been working amazingly. He doesnt even waste time to take them down. I've never seen him have such a good feeding response. Glad to have him eating regularly.

[cheosamad]

Penny and Valak both continue to grow. Valak ate today so I cant weigh her until her next poop but I can see she's growing. Pennywise is now at almost 1160 grams!

[cheosamad]

OKAY NEW PROBLEM GOD DAMNIT!

No wonder he weighed so much. He pooped a second time but I think there is a chance he may have regurged. His last meal was on November 7th so 3 days ago.

He pooped this morning and obviously I cleaned him up and redid his cage. I came and checked on him about 15 minutes ago when I weighed him and everything was fine. Step out of the room and come back 5 minutes later to find this in the cage. What looks like smeared poop and pee and then 2 lumps one of them still hardly even digested. It looks like the rat he ate from 3 days ago. I havent handled him otherwise and his husbandry is what it's always been.

Does this look like regurge? There was no insane smell or anything just smelled like poop but it isnt normal. There was a little bit of weird good on the floor too but it was also a little left around his anal vent but none around his mouth or anything. I saw him drink water when I'd just put him back in his tub. Indication of him trying to throw up? Freaked out right now. Cleaned up his cage and put him back. Going to leave him alone but now I'm super worried something else is messed up.

[Mangiapane85]

That's definitely regurge. I saw your other thread.. if ends up being ok and it was just a temperature issue or overfeeding issue or something, you are gonna want to give his stomach plenty of time to heal. Throwing up is VERY stressful on the insides of snakes. So you'll wanna give him no less than 2 weeks off. .. my Kenyan Sand Boa regurged about a week ago. He has since been fine but I'm still not gonna feed him for another week. and it will be a smaller meal considering I think I was overfeeding him.

Good luck and keep us posted!


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[cheosamad]

Absolutely no intentions of going near him except to check on him. He is in total quarentine mode.


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[cheosamad]

Update. Penny has been doing better. Haven't been messing with him except today to clean pee and change water. Seems like he is entering shed. Pink belly and his pattern looks washed out.



Valak ate and finished shedding today. Fresh clean tub




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[cheosamad]

I'm not sure if anyone saw my thread a few months back when Pennywise had some really weird scale issue. It wasnt a burn or scale rot it was just an abnormality. Anyway. He shed last night and it is conpletely gone!





Nice complete shed.

[cheosamad]

Update if anyone is interested. We are all moved and settled. Tonight was the second time offering Penny food since his incident. He still hasnt taken yet. I tried last week as well. Pretty frustrating. He is at 986 grams. It's disconcerting to see him slowely drop in grams. Really hope he bounces back. All that said he has peed for me since we got here. Ambient temp in the room is at 81 hot spot steady at 90 degrees.

Hoping if I just continue to keep him clean and warm his food drive will kick back on.

Valak is at around 1100 grams now.

All of my other snakes have been doing well. My Banana has been eating consistantly as well as my Super fire.

[Reinz]

You have some beautiful snakes. I Love Penny! He'll come back around and eat when he is ready. Hopefully he won't wait till spring.

[cheosamad]

You have some beautiful snakes. I Love Penny! He'll come back around and eat when he is ready. Hopefully he won't wait till spring.

Thank you!

Also that would drive me up the freakin wall -___-