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Laery

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We have had our little girl Klepto for roughly 2 months she is a Tesserra about 18-20'' in length and roughly 24-25grams, I have been reading about the Munson feeding plan and as it suggested we upped her to two pinkies every 7 days. As when before when we were only feeding one pinky we hardly saw a noticeable bump, and even though we have increased to two pinkies we still are not seeing a noticeable bump. But yet I do not believe she is the right size for fuzzies just yet, she's not very thick. We fed her last week 2 pinkies and she hadn't passed. But as to what I have read sometimes this happens, so we offered her two pinkies again this Saturday, both of which she ate voraciously. And though it has only been 3 days she still has not passed. I am a bit concerned... there are no visible bumps, lumps, or swelling. Her tank is a standard 10g with hot side temps at 80-83F cool side ranging from 70-75F, humidity stays right at 50-60%. She has a hide on each side, though she is rarely in either she is a very active snake. I am wondering if there is anything I need to change or anything I need to do in order to help her. I have been advised that this is normal behavior and to continue to fed as scheduled. (From a reputable corn snake breeder for 20+years) I am just concerned and looking for any insight as to how I can better our snakes life.

Any productive input is appreciated!
 
If she's eating and keeping it down, and pooping and the poop looks normal, than I'd agree there's not a problem. Many don't stick to an expected schedule, so you just have to trust that if the food goes down and stays down, then comes out the other end with the nutrition extracted, this is probably as good as it gets. Everything else sounds normal. Some Corns can be very active where some are equally as reclusive.

I've long since learned that the minute I figure out the habits of a Corn, they'll decide to do something different just to spook me!
 
By passed, you mean poop? Is she on aspen? If so, she may be like ours and poops while buried underneath. I have to clean the entire tank because it's impossible to spot clean.
 
Sorry yes I do mean pooped. She is on Coco-Husk substrate, and we suspected she may have been hiding it. But we sifted and cleaned the substrate to avail and found nothing.....
 
Honestly, it was very hard for us to notice it also. For a small snake, it's TINY. (To me, it looks like a tiny chickadee bird poop) The only reason I knew was because she has decided her new favorite place to go is in her log hide. Otherwise, it was always under the aspen and I would just change the entire viv instead of searching for it lol :)
 
Change the entire viv as in clean or change enclosures? We cleaned the entire viv as we do regularly... Meaning take all the old substrate out, clean entire viv walls, floor, roof, sanitize hides and water dish, etc. But still found nothing, maybe I am just used to my BP and missing it??
 
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