• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Regurgitation issues continued

And the likelihood of regurgitating 3 days after eating is not likely, much less 3 different snakes always regurgitating 3 days after eating? This is when they normally poop... your snake is most likely pooping. You're an admittedly new keeper of snakes, therefore I assume not very experienced in what a notmal snake poo looks like. Google "snake poop" and "snake regurge" and to get some ideas on what yoir looking at.

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
 
ashleynicole said:
If it doesn't smell it is NOT a regurge.

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

There's no way for us to know without him showing us a picture. That being said, wouldn't it be better to be safe than sorry? If he treats it like a poop and doesn't change anything, the snake is likely not going to recover.

You also said before that you've only had one regurge in 9 years, which is great, but I just don't think you can judge someone else's problem with so little experience on regurges.
 
"A regurge is an incredibly foul smelling upchuck of whatever the snake last ate - and usually appear minutes, hours or even a day or so after it was eaten. They can look anything from just as the prey was consumed up to a mass of jelly looking mush. You will KNOW a regurge when you eventually get one - the smell is that bad!"


Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
 
I would also ask if there are any white chalky bits in what you think was regurgitated?

Also sometimes if you put it in water I habe read a regurge won't break apart and poop will.

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
 
About 3 days later I find this thing at the bottom of the cage but it sure didn't look like a poo or the pics of the regurges I've seen. It was smooth and whitish(the color of the mouse's fur) and about the size of the mouse length wise but thinner, maybe half the circumference of Ziggy. It didn't really smell, although I didn't get that close either.

"Well, Ziggy sheds 3 days later so I'm thinking ok, maybe it was because of the shed. So I wait 8 days then try another fuzzy and he takes it just fine. This one was even smaller than the first so I'm thinking he should be fine. Hardly a lump after he ate it. Well, sure enough 3-4 days later I find the same thing."


That is what I am getting, but there are also times with what is definitely feces, urates, and liquid. The ones that I have taken back to Petsmart had the same issue after I took them back and they called it a regurge also, which tells me that it was not doing that when they had the snakes. Like I said, next time I will take a pic and post it.
 
Poop smells too, AN. I'm not sure why you are protesting this. Plenty of regurges aren't rancid smelling.
 
Hopefully there won't be a next time!

Several years ago, one of my snakes regurged because I was new to keeping snakes and I tried to feed him two fuzzies. That one definitely looked like a regurgitated mouse; you could still see some of the features - no question about it. And it smelled bad.

However, I have also had a regurge from the tank not being warm enough. This one came several days after feeding, and it was very soft and whitish/pinkish. The snake had also pooped, which was clearly a poop. This one did not smell very bad, and it could be pulled apart very easily. I think when the temperatures aren't quite high enough, the snake can almost digest the meal (which is why mine pooped as well), but not completely, which is why there was also a partial regurge.

Here is a link with pictures to my thread about it: http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127909&
 
Snakes can regurge any time from immediately to 5-6 days later. I've found that 3-4 days is the most common.

A fresh regurge will be unchanged, but slimy. This is usually caused by it not going down right, or being too large to get down, or the snake being startled. And it is voluntary.

Then the longer digestion goes on (or not!) the more the mouse decomposes inside the snake, till it finally comes up. And then, the longer it takes you to find it, the worse it smells.

With a small, early regurge, if you don't catch it right away, the aspen will dessicate it, and you might fine it days or weeks later, as a dried mummy.

If it's very warm, and the prey is bigger, and not super decomposed, it might turn into a black, rotting corpse. The worsdt!
 
Here are some examples that I found online:

What I have called regurgitations have looked like this and sometimes more shriveled up and digested, but always had what looked like skin on the outside.

DSC01319.jpg


This is what I call poop has looked like:

poop.jpg
 
Do I restrict him to the warm side after feeding or should the snake go to the warm side on his own? He likes to sleep on the cool side. Jeez.....I thought this was supposed to be easy! LOL
 
No, let him go where he wants. He's better at thermoregulating his temp than you are.
 
ashleynicole said:
If it doesn't smell it is NOT a regurge.

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...


I actually had a regurge that was FIVE days after feeding and didn't smell at all. I know it was a regurge cause I watched it come out of his mouth lol


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
cobra314 said:
Do I restrict him to the warm side after feeding or should the snake go to the warm side on his own? He likes to sleep on the cool side. Jeez.....I thought this was supposed to be easy! LOL
Click to expand...


Ok I know people say they take care of their own temps. And they do. I don't have NEARLY the experience some of the other people here do, but here's what I've seen with my snake. The one time I had a regurge is the one time I let him go into whatever hide he wanted, and he chose the cool side. I handled him 5 days after and a half eaten mouse exploded out of his mouth. Not pretty. I didn't feed him again for a week, and when I did, I gave him a smaller prey item dusted with nutribac. As a lot of people here said it seems to be a combo of little things that make snakes regurge. In my case, I was feeding slightly too large, slightly too often AND he was in slightly cooler temps when digesting. Now what I do, is after he completely finishes eating his mouse (I feed in separate containers) I GENTLY place him into his Viv and GUIDE HIS HEAD INTO THE WARM HIDE. I find after he eats he just sits in one place for a while, so I make sure he gets into the warm hide and leave him be. Now I get poops 3 days after feeding and he's up and about :) idk if that will work for you, but since you said yours spends a lot of time on the cool side it would be worth a shot when you feed him next. And obviously I'd feed something smaller next week.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
ashleynicole said:
If it doesn't smell it is NOT a regurge.
Click to expand...

I've had regurges that don't smell, either because they are not very decomposed, or they dry out.

The horrible putrid smell tells you almost for sure you have a regurge, but lack of a horrible smell is not always conclusive that you don't.
 
I had some pinkies. Today is a week since he ate last. I got a pinkie that was 3 1/2 to 4 grams and put some repti-bac on the head. He ate it easily and is now back in his viv.
 
cobra314 said:
I had some pinkies. Today is a week since he ate last. I got a pinkie that was 3 1/2 to 4 grams and put some repti-bac on the head. He ate it easily and is now back in his viv.
Click to expand...


Just out of curiosity, after eating the pink, is he in the warm side or the cool? Has he been active after?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top