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Kierra

Daeraelle

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Well, my female black rat snake that regurged on 3-23 got to eat a newborn rat pink this morning. Hopefully she'll do fine with that and can move up to two rat pinks next week. I'm trying to be careful with her as this is my first regurge patient. Poor girl, she's so big. I haven't weighed her yet, but she had a smaller dinner than my 42g corn snake. She ate it, and then she just kept sniffing and nosing around and around the tub and looking at me like "That's all?! That's it?!"
 
I know she seems to still be hungry. But wouldn't you feel better feeding her just 1 rat pink next feeding then trying to work her up from there?

I think for myself if I had a regurge I'd feed something smaller then they are use to for a couple feedings then gradually working up to thier normal size feeding, JMHO.
 
She's not a small snake, she usually eats two adult mice at a time, so the rat pink is a tiny meal for her. I fed her one this morning, just to see if she does fine with it, and if all goes well she might get two rat pinks next time. Or just a larger rat pink. I don't want it to be a huge difference, but I do want to slowly go up. I guess I could just feed her one pink again next time, jsut to be sure everything is going alright, and then feed her two pinks. Hopefully in two months or so she'll be back up to where she was. I may just try feeding her small rats, as the two jumbo mice together are a little bigger. I'm trying to get all my snakes on rats though, just for my own convenience, lol. I hate breeding mice, I had 6 litters of rats before my mice even had their first little litters. The four female mice only had 32 pinks between them. Plus they stink. Awfully. Blegh. The rats are great though. I hear they're more fatty, maybe increasing a day or two in between feedings would keep the snakes from gaining too much? Kierra is the only one that got to eat this morning, but I wanted to make sure she had enough warmth throughout the day because her tub does get a tiny bit cooler at night, so I made sure she got to eat before I went to work.

Edit: I guess I'm just using this like a journal. I know if I write it down on a piece of paper I'll lose it, lol.
 
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