Feeding question...

[Trollbie]

She's been eating for over an hour. Is that normal? She's almost to the tail but it looks like she's struggling. I think the mouse they gave me was too big, but then again I got the snake there so they should know what size she eats.

[theapexgerman]

Some snakes take awhile my albino nelson milk eats very slow my mountain king eats with in 5 or 10 minutes so it just depends

[Trollbie]

How long is it gonna take her to poop?

[theapexgerman]

Varies all my snakes eat same time poop different times so just depends

[Trollbie]

It's been 2 hours now. D:

[theapexgerman]

Sounds a little longer than my nelson but I don't think you need to worry

[Trollbie]

Okay I'll try. She's almost there. I'd be so exhausted by now I'd just spit it out...

[theapexgerman]

Yea me to lol she could also just be enjoying his food

[Trollbie]

She looks pretty over it lol

[Trollbie]

She's been dragging it all over the tank lol

[theapexgerman]

Has she got the mouse down yet?

[Trollbie]

She just spat it out :O

[theapexgerman]

Well that's not good how big was the mouse wait a few days and maybe try a smaller mouse

[Trollbie]

I'm gonna go back tomorrow and hopefully they'll give me one for free. It was definitely bigger than her

[theapexgerman]

How much bigger was the mouse than the snake maybe take a pic of the mouse

[Trollbie]

My phone died so as soon as I charge it a little I'll post pics

[theapexgerman]

Ok ill be up for awhile going to finish off this scotch I got left and trying to decide on what my next snake is going to be

[Trollbie]

Lol


I just don't get why they'd give me a mouse that's too big. They fed the snake for 2 months...

[Trollbie]

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll256/Czechish/9ad62c90.jpg
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[theapexgerman]

Hmm the mouse looks a little bigger than the snake she shouldn't of puke it back up maybe try an smaller one was the mouse frozen than thawed

[Trollbie]

It was freshly killed

[theapexgerman]

Ok so no problems there cause I was going to say if it was f/t it could of been to cold but that's not the case hmm just try a smaller mouse I'm sure more members be on in the morning I think were the only on

[Trollbie]

Ok. But now I have to wait to feed her again?

[theapexgerman]

I would wait a few days my self maybe longer but a smaller mouse not going to do any harm to her so later tommrow try an smaller mouse

[Lankyrob]

As it regurged i would leave it fourteen days or so before trying a smaller prey item.

Looking at those pics i wouldnt say that the mouse was overly big tho, how far did it swallow before regurge? How long after it dissappeared did it reappear?

[SpOoKy]

As it regurged i would leave it fourteen days or so before trying a smaller prey item.

Looking at those pics i wouldnt say that the mouse was overly big tho, how far did it swallow before regurge? How long after it dissappeared did it reappear?

I agree with you on waiting to feed again Rob, but I don't think it needs to be that long. If the snake had swallowed it right down far into it's stomach then yes I would wait 14 days. From the way it sounds though it only got it a little down then spit it out. This should not have disturbed to stomach too much and feeding could probably be tried again in 3-4 days. The main reason for waiting in this case would be to avoid stressing the snake out with the food, not so much letting it build it's stomach back up.

OP- How far did the snake swallow the mouse? was it right down then he threw it up ar was it just passed the mouth?

[Trollbie]

I agree with you on waiting to feed again Rob, but I don't think it needs to be that long. If the snake had swallowed it right down far into it's stomach then yes I would wait 14 days. From the way it sounds though it only got it a little down then spit it out. This should not have disturbed to stomach too much and feeding could probably be tried again in 3-4 days. The main reason for waiting in this case would be to avoid stressing the snake out with the food, not so much letting it build it's stomach back up.

OP- How far did the snake swallow the mouse? was it right down then he threw it up ar was it just passed the mouth?


It took her over 2 hours to get it as far as the second pic and then she gave up and spat it out. If the mouse wasn't too big, why did she?

[SpOoKy]

Not sure why she spat it out. It is a little on the big size but it could have been taken. I would wait 5 days or so and try again with a smaller one. I had problems with one of mine once, he refused to bump up the meal size. Just would not take anything bigger so I had to start feeding multiple for a while. Once he ate a few meals of multiples and had a shed he ate the larger size no problem.

Hold off a little and don't bug him at all for a few days then try again with smaller. I wouldn't start worrying about anything just yet.

[Lankyrob]

If i hadnt seen the pictures and just read the description then i would definitely say it was too big, with the pics it just doesnt seem to add up somewhere - sorry cant be more helpful, but i agree with Spooky, give it a week or so and try something slightly smaller and let us know what happens.

[Trollbie]

She seemed super stressed out afterwards too. Normally if I touch her she's fine. But she freaked out last night and all I did was touch her. Didn't even try to pick her up :(

[SpOoKy]

Just leave her alone. Give her soem time to settle down a bit.