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Regurge

Clovis

Clovis

Pirate
So, I've got a little one who has been regurging. About once every 3 feedings, REGURGE! I haven't gotten a full meal into him yet. Here's the rundown.

Feedings with probiotics marked with *

Got him shipped in, left 10 days to acclimate, fed XS pinky*, 2 days later, regurge. waited 14 days, fed pinky head*, stayed down, fed half of pinky* 7 days later, stayed down, fed whole XS pinky*, next day regurge. Wait 14 days feed head*, stayed down, 7 days fed 1rst pinky half and regurge next day.

He is defecating when he keeps food down, eats readily when fed, is not losing weight as of yet, and his scales are healthy, with firm skin. No mouth rot, no swelling of the vent, and is rather active. I'm not horribly worried, but thought I might ask for insight. Thoughts anyone?
 
Are you using nutribac? If not, I highly suggest you order it, otherwise your little one is most likely going to continue to regurge since all her stomach bacterias are being depleted. I would stop the feeding completely until you get nutribac for her.
 
I don't know but maybe you should get nutribac or whatever you have - and force feed him some. I had a regurge and I followed Kathy Love's advice, get at least 2 doses in him within the wait to feed him again. 3 doses would probably be better.

That's what I did and my snake is doing great. And then still give the probiotic with the mouse. I forgot (like an idiot) to do that when I fed Kohl but apparently waiting and forcing nutribac down a couple times with no food worked.
 
Keep him on the partial pinks for a while, make sure that he is keeping them down for a few feedings before moving up, that way he is gaining strength and the stomach flora has plenty of time to come back. If you have to take it months before moving up to the next size, then takes months. Some food is better than no food or regurging.
 
It sounds as if you're increasing the size of the meals too quickly. You need to start very small for the first few meals and to a very gradual increase in size, taking at least 10 meals kept down to get back up to the proper size meal for the size snake. Also, what are the temps? The drop in ambient temp during the winter can drop the temps in the viv enough to cause regurging without you realizing it.
 
Many of you- I am using Benebac, though I was not using it as consistently as I should have after some reading and some good advice. I was skipping meals with it, thinking he might grow to need it all the time. Just not being cautious enough.

Susan- we WERE having viv temp drop problems, but we moved his cage last week to a better climate controlled area of the house, where the heat stays pretty regular. staying about 75-78 on the cool side and about 82-85 on the warm side. I am quite certain that the first regurge was do to temp drop in the room, as it was the first night it got REALLY cold out, and we woke up in the morning and turned on the bedrooms gas heat. I think you're right and I'm scaling him up too fast.
 
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