Vomiting from new enclosure setup?

[zina10]

Thanks Zina. I was quite surprised when looking into the cage to see the remnants of a projectile vomit. Needless to say, my search results were limited on those results. Good news is that he has made it a full 24 hours without another episode. He looks normal and tenses up, while coiled in his hide, when I open his tub. As he is currently in his tub, when should I try and move him back to the new cage? It's a better setup and less dependent upon ambient air temps in my room that fluctuate a bit. The UTH isn't the greatest with maintaining a high enough temp for the other parts of the cage.

It is up to you, of course, but honestly, after all the stress he had and you have already moved him back to the old enclosure, I would leave him for now.

He used to do reasonably well in there. He had a LOT of stress just lately, incl. the strange vomiting part. Most important now is that he heals up inside of him. Keeping stress low will help that. In a new enclosure, even if husbandry is perfect, they will cruise, inspect, check out and stress at first. Not what you need at this moment. Since he was well fed prior to all that, I would just leave him be for at least 7 to 10 days. If he still seems fine then, you could move him. Then once again leave him be for at least 5 days. If his cruising seems to turn into "hunger" cruising, you can try to feed then. I would leave at least 2 1/2 to 3 weeks after the vomiting before offering food.

Now, that is going by what makes sense to me. However, you are there, you know your snake. So you also have to follow your gut feeling.

Regurgitation really messes up their insides quite a bit and feeding to soon after can set off another regurgitation and it goes south from there. Yours had projectile vomiting. That may be less severe on the system then regurgitating a full sized rodent, but I honestly don't know.
In this case, I would just play it safe.