Just Regurged..

[Sunnieskys]

Im not being harsh at all. Ive spent hours/days PMing this young man and hours explaining what to do step by step. From the time when he was buying the snake until he set his first tub up/how to heat/first feeding/Husbandry 101.
People will ask 100 common sense questions they could have read about themselves then after everyone takes their time to help they question the importance of what you've explained! Then they dont follow the directions and post another thread about the problems they're having because they didn't follow anyone's advice. Thats insanity.



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then I totally stand corrected. I had not had all the facts.

[gusanr14]

I haven't read all of the posts, but has anyone recommended Nutribac to the OP yet? I recently had a snake with regurgitation issues and I treated his water with Nutribac for about a month and a half to help him replenish gut flora from regurgitating. Also, make sure there aren't any cold drafts blowing on his enclosure from anywhere...

Someone did recommend me that, but with feeder dusting. Do I do both water and feeder?


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[bcr229]

The directions on the Nutribac say to dissolve the powder in the water. I prefer to sprinkle a pinch of the powder onto a damp f/t feeder as it's difficult to monitor a snake's water intake. By putting it on the feeder you know the snake is ingesting it.

[Aedryan Methyus]

Someone did recommend me that, but with feeder dusting. Do I do both water and feeder?


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The directions on the Nutribac actually say, "Never allow powder to mix in water (caking occurs)"... It's intended use is to dust the rodents with it before feeding, but I had kept my snake off of food for about 6 weeks since he had regurgitated 3 times. So, I was mixing it in his water (about 1 tablespoon per 2 cups of water apx.) and I would give him fresh treated water about every 2 - 3 days. Just be sure to mix it up really good and keep a close eye on his water dish. If you see it starting to cake up or notice anything starting to grow in the water (and it will), re-treat some fresh water. You can also mix up about 1 gram of Nutribac with a little water and syringe it directly down his throat of you're comfortable doing that. I had the vet do it for me while I had him there just to make sure he got a nice healthy dose of the Nutribac in addition to treating his water. If I were you, I would give your snake a whole month off of food, as was recommended to me by many here at the forum. I didn't follow that advice at first and that's why my snake ended up regurgitating 3 times. Other than that, just make sure that your temperatures and humidity are spot on and make absolutely certain that you don't have any cold drafts in the room that could be blowing on/in his enclosure. Cold drafts from a door and window in my snake room is what caused my poor boy to start regurgitating and also caused another snake to get an RI at the same time...

PS As others have already mentioned, when you start feeding your snake again only give him really small prey every 2 weeks and slowly build him back up to his regular prey size and feeding schedule over the course of a couple of months. It's fine if he loses some weight. What is most important is that he doesn't keep regurgitating...

[gusanr14]

Was doing some research, and came across something about gut flora. I don't know if this is true or not, but it said, snake will produce stomach acid when the food is actually in the stomach. I just saw several of this quote, so was wondering if it is true fact or not. I am still waiting for 2 weeks to feed him again, but writing this to check if anyone know of this info.

[CoxJaden]

Hwo big of food are you feeding it? I was told this sometimes can happen if the snake is not used to a big meal. Its not a full on regurgitation as in undigested food and smells like death, its just more or less a hair ball that doesnt really smell like anything. If that is what it is, then wait a couple weeks and feed smaller prey until the snake is used to the size.

Happens more in BCC than is BPs but i would assume the same can be applied.

thank you for this reply, I just had the same thing happen to one of mine and I introduced to just a size bigger than what he was getting and he did the same thing. It didn’t smell like death like people claim regurges do just had a mild unpleasant smell and looked just like this one.

[Zincubus]

thank you for this reply, I just had the same thing happen to one of mine and I introduced to just a size bigger than what he was getting and he did the same thing. It didn’t smell like death like people claim regurges do just had a mild unpleasant smell and looked just like this one.

Guess the smell gets worse over time ...


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[Bogertophis]

Guess the smell gets worse over time ...


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I think the more digested they are, the worse they smell. A regurge that happens shortly after a snake eats would be much better than one that's a couple days in the digestive tract, like when the snake was too cool to digest, or when there's some sort of illness going on.