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My Corn didn't swallow!

M

Mooshoo-and-Kaa

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Today i fed my corn and as always, he gobbled up his pinky, but this time i noticed he wasn't swallowing it right away.

i left him alone for a half hour and came back to check on him and the pinky was still in his throat, so his head looked huge. i waited another half hour and no change. He normally woofs down his food and is ready to hide

i was concerned it was stuck so i picked him up and he immediately spit it up into my hand.

He is about a year old (we've had him since last January) and he has never ever once refused a meal, or regurged.

Do corns sometimes hold their meals in their mouths, or should i be worried?

i'm going to wait a few days before i feed him again.

Thanks

Jeff
 
I'm not sure why he wasn't able to swallow the pinky, but I would wait 7-10 days before offering him food again. Give him time to recover.
 
A year old corn still on pinkies? I would think he is more than ready to move up to larger mice. My corns are a year old as well, and are on small adult mice. Snakes should be fed food that is about 1 1/5 times the width of their bodies and leave an obvious lump after swallowing.

I can't help you as to why he spit it up, though.
 
BeckyG said:
A year old corn still on pinkies? I would think he is more than ready to move up to larger mice. My corns are a year old as well, and are on small adult mice. Snakes should be fed food that is about 1 1/5 times the width of their bodies and leave an obvious lump after swallowing.

I can't help you as to why he spit it up, though.
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I have yearlings on pinks...

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I've never heard of a snake not swallowing completely. So that's new to me!

The only time something similar has happened, was my fault. I fed a female in her viv because I was running short of time before a trip, and I put it in her viv and shut the door to her viv.

I came back a half hour later to see how things went, and I saw the mouse not completely swallowed and her face up to the glass. Upon closer examination I noticed that somehow I shut the tail of the mouse in the door, and she had eaten as far as she could and was just waiting. Talk about feeling stupid, and then all I could manage to do was laugh my butt off.

If the pink you offered was the same size as the rest you've been feeding, I have no idea why it wasn't swallowed normally. Could have just been a fluke.

And I too have a couple of '04 yearlings on large pinks/peach fuzzies. Snakes grow at different rates, like we do. "All sizes fit" doesn't necessarily work all of the time.

Although it would be interesting to see a picture of Mooshoo's snake and the food items he/she normally feeds and see how it compares and if they could go larger for subsequent feedings.
 
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