My little sunglow, Venkman, regurged sometime today (Wednesday). He was fed Friday night, 2 pinkies (frozen, thawed), so it's been 4 full days since the feeding (Sat - Tues). The regurge has the appearance of a single mostly undigested pinkie, black marks on it (especially near/around the slits in it's back), along with a mostly digested pinkie (very small, hardly anything left). He's been doing 2 pinkies per feeding for a while now without any problems (2 months?). He's fed every 5 to 7 days --- when he's out prowling around for a few days, we take that as a sign that he's hungry.
I've read the regurg faq, and know not to handle him, feed him a much smaller meal only after 10 days from now, etc., so I'm pretty sure I know what to do about it. My issue is trying to determine a cause.
After his "brother" died (similar regurge, though his started a week after we got him; we worked with Don @ SMR, went through the treatment, he was eating fine, didn't regurge the smaller meals, graduated to full pinkies, but never seemed to want to drink --- so we figure renal failure took him before we understood what was happening). We double-checked the tank temps -- they were too high, so we built a rheostat.
Current tank temps are 79 - 80 on the cool side, and 85 inside the warm side hide. Venkman pooped about 2 days ago ... a normal poop by all appearances (though my young ones were grossed out that he pooped on top of one of the hides).
I'm looking for ideas on what could have caused this. I've had him about 4 or 5 months now, and he's growing fine, and hasn't shown any signs of problems. He's an '04, 19" long (measuring his last shed from a week or two ago). We did have a birthday party in the house on Sunday for my two youngest kids --- do you think that having all those kids running around might have bothered him to the extent that he would have regurged? It was a "snake party" (http://www.snakeshow.com), so we also had a number of other snakes in the house --- at the other end of the house.
Thanks!
john
I've read the regurg faq, and know not to handle him, feed him a much smaller meal only after 10 days from now, etc., so I'm pretty sure I know what to do about it. My issue is trying to determine a cause.
After his "brother" died (similar regurge, though his started a week after we got him; we worked with Don @ SMR, went through the treatment, he was eating fine, didn't regurge the smaller meals, graduated to full pinkies, but never seemed to want to drink --- so we figure renal failure took him before we understood what was happening). We double-checked the tank temps -- they were too high, so we built a rheostat.
Current tank temps are 79 - 80 on the cool side, and 85 inside the warm side hide. Venkman pooped about 2 days ago ... a normal poop by all appearances (though my young ones were grossed out that he pooped on top of one of the hides).
I'm looking for ideas on what could have caused this. I've had him about 4 or 5 months now, and he's growing fine, and hasn't shown any signs of problems. He's an '04, 19" long (measuring his last shed from a week or two ago). We did have a birthday party in the house on Sunday for my two youngest kids --- do you think that having all those kids running around might have bothered him to the extent that he would have regurged? It was a "snake party" (http://www.snakeshow.com), so we also had a number of other snakes in the house --- at the other end of the house.
Thanks!
john