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#1726730 Sslol1 View Profile	Overfed!?!?!? i have a corn snake that is about four months old. he has always had only one pinkie per week and he digests them pretty quickly. i read somewhere that if the snake digests and the lump is gone within 24 hrs you can feed them more but if the lump takes more than 48 hrs you should feed them less. so after a couple of months i decided to feed my snake 2 pinkies at once. this was friday night. it is now monday night and doggy still has a lump but he won’t regurgitate {which is good lol} does anyone know how long it might take him to digest? i’m a little worried since this is my first snake
05/06/08  04:04am
#1726876 Jessica71 View Profile	Message To: Sslol1   In reference to Message Id: 1726730  Overfed!?!?!? What are your temperatures? I think if a lump is still present you’re right to be concerned as the snake will probably regurgitate. If the lump hasn’t gone in 48 hours, personally I think that’s a bad sign - if digestion hasn’t happened by now the snake probably won’t digest it properly. Your temperatures should be around 75-80 cool end, 85 warm end. You should have clean water and plenty of hides, the snake should be housed alone, and with aspen, Carefresh or paper towel/newspaper as a substrate. If all this is correct, the chances are you’ve fed your snake too much. I’m not a great believer in this theory of if the lump is gone within 24 hours then the snake hasn’t had enough. One appropriately sized item is better than two, especially with a young snake which has a small stomach - and slightly underfeeding is better than overfeeding. If I were you I’d then go on to one fuzzy rather than two pinkies - I think it’s safer, and I have gone through a few regurges in situations like this so have become rather cautious about feeding too much at once. Leave your snake alone - don’t handle it at all. Make sure all the husbandry is correct, as above. It will probably regurgitate, and if so, don’t feed it again for ten days and when you do, give one small pinky only or even half a pinky. Still no handling, and after another week you can feed another small pinky. If the snake handles this ok, you can continue with normal sized pinkies, but don’t try to feed two pinkies at once for at least another month, and don’t handle the snake at all for a few weeks - as I say, I think it’s better to gradually increase the size rather than doubling it suddenly. I know people say to do it, but I think that’s wrong and misleading. If your snake doesn’t regurge and the lump remains, a vet visit would be a good idea. Keep us posted.
05/06/08  10:09am

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