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Un-needed food

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Anazazia

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Un-needed food?

I was at the reptile expo this weekend and was told by a few people selling corns that some snakes will regurge if they just don't need the food. They were saying that parasites and mites would 'cause the snake to not gain and/or lose weight. I was just wondering what anyone else's reactions to this were.
 
Half true.

The parasites part is true. The regurg part is not. If your corn is regurging it's because it is having issues of some sort not because "it doesn't need food". Like with people or any other animal, if it is eating beyond it's need it will gain weight (fat) and or eliminate from the tail end what is not needed.
 
So if their temps were right, and they were gaining weight, and holding the meal down long enough to poo, then regurging, what would 'cause the regurge?
 
It could be the food is too big, it could be from stress, it could be from having a disease, if your snake has been regurging you should wait ten days after the regurge and then feed it something smaller than usual but if it keeps happening you should take it to vet to be on safe side
 
We were at the show and my friend wants to get a venomous snake (he's insane... don't ask) and was asking about regurging 'cause he didn't know if regurging could release the venom too, and we were going through a list of reasons the snake would regurge. We were a little curious because at one point one of his little guy would regurge every fourth meal, so he was being cautious. I just didn't know how right the guy's advice was.
 
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