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Poop Or Regurge?
- Thread starter wavenup
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Nanci
Alien Lover
Are you positive that's what it was? How old is the snake? I just has a 70 gram yearling poop in her water bowl yesterday. She's just gotten onto large fuzzies. So the poop was mouse-flesh colored, and wormy-looking, with hair, with no urates. It took me a second to decide it was poo, not regurge. The sign was the diameter of the dropping- snake intestine-size, and ropey, not a solid lump. I wish I'd taken a photo of it.
If you're positive, I'd skip the next meal and feed a prey item half the size of the meal that was regurged, and powder with Nutribac.
If you're positive, I'd skip the next meal and feed a prey item half the size of the meal that was regurged, and powder with Nutribac.
Being under water could mask the smell, although I'm not sure it could hide it entirely.
I have not yet experienced the "I'm not sure if this is a regurge or just a weird poop" thing, but if I ever did, I'd go the "better safe than sorry" route and follow regurge protocol just to be sure. Even if it is a poop, the fact that you are able to identify a mouse tail & leg means it was not fully digested, so your snake's system didn't handle the meal as well as it should have, so giving the digestive system a bit of a break and going to a smaller meal is likely to be helpful in that case as well.
I have not yet experienced the "I'm not sure if this is a regurge or just a weird poop" thing, but if I ever did, I'd go the "better safe than sorry" route and follow regurge protocol just to be sure. Even if it is a poop, the fact that you are able to identify a mouse tail & leg means it was not fully digested, so your snake's system didn't handle the meal as well as it should have, so giving the digestive system a bit of a break and going to a smaller meal is likely to be helpful in that case as well.