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Feeding with no poop? Urgent!

Eponine

Eponine

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My baby had her first meal with me 5 days ago and I want to feed her again today, but I have had no sign of a pop or a regurge. Is this ok, would I be able to tell if she was regurging? Should I feed her anyways or wait? I don't want to feed her right before the weekend because I can properly handle her on weekends more than weekdays. Any help would be great! She's a month and a half btw
 
Should be fine. Baby poop is really small and hard to find. She most likely pooped and you just missed it. Double check your temperatures to be safe and feed as normal.
 
I agree. Baby poop is TINY and it can get lost in the aspen if that's what you're using. If it was a regurge, it would be much easier to find. For one thing, it would still look like a whole pinkie mouse, which is larger than baby snake poop. And more noticeably, it would stink really badly. You'd be able to smell it when you walked in the room.
 
I feed on schedule whether they've popped or not. My adult poops after he sheds and that's about it lol so I'd be in trouble if I waited for that to feed him :)
 
I agree with the above. Additionally, if you're quite paranoid about it, you can try giving it a bath in very shallow (only a little over it's body), warm (75-85 degrees F) water for about ten minutes. If she hasn't pooped yet, this should trigger a reflex that will cause her to poop. Sounds odd, I know, but it usually works. Don't be upset if she still doesn't produce anything, she's probably done it already. Also, for the lighter coloured young ones, you can typically hold them up to the light and see if there are any shadows near their cloaca, which would indicate the need to poop. If she looks distended (there's a nice big bulge at her cloaca, there are shadows there, and she's attempting to poop in the bath but can't get it out), then that might be reason to call a vet, but it's most likely nothing to worry about.
 
Just go ahead and feed her, she'll poop when she wants to. 99.9% of the time, worrying over the pooping is what we humans do, the snake is fine and doesn't poop until it needs to. Unless she's got a blockage due to congenital abnormality or swallowing substrate, in which case you would see a grossly swollen belly, let her do her thing.
Swimming etc to 'help constipation' is an entirely keeper-made problem. Corns don't get constipated. They don't need laxatives. They don't need enemas. They just need their loving owners to feed them and look after them!
 
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