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Old 09-26-13, 11:11 PM   #1
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Bathroom Question

My girl, Nimue, was fed on the 10th - and again on the 21st.

She has not pooped yet. She has peed A LOT - I've given her baths (well 2)

she does not feel to be blocked up. Her Feed day is the 1st. Should I wait til she poops?
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Old 09-26-13, 11:14 PM   #2
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Re: Bathroom Question

She'll poop when shes ready. You can go ahead and feed her.

What are you feeding her? it may be time to up her size
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Old 09-26-13, 11:29 PM   #3
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we just recently upped her size to small rats - she was eating the equivalent of a large mouse (3 small mice - the store by me didn't have lg mice) she's been on rats for a total of 5 feedings
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Re: Bathroom Question

if there is no bulging or bloating, or if you slide her through your hands and don't feel anything hard I would go ahead and feed her.

If any of those other things exist I would double check your husbandry
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if there is no bulging or bloating, or if you slide her through your hands and don't feel anything hard I would go ahead and feed her.

If any of those other things exist I would double check your husbandry
She feels fine - nothing is hard, no bulging/bloating she's feels as she always does - I check the cage in the morning for urine/before I leave for school/when I get home/and before I go to bed - water is changed daily (sometimes 2 b/c she'll knock aspen into it)
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Re: Bathroom Question

Boas can go a long time between poops. Months as adults.
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She probably isn't being fed enough.
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Old 09-27-13, 09:02 AM   #8
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skylord - she's 9 months fed a small rat every 10 days
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If you can post a picture of her next to an object of standard size, I.e. soda can, etc, that can help a lot more than just staimg weights and lengths.
As long as her appetite is hood and you aren't feeling amy large masses abdominally, I'd chalk it up to what terra said.
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Well I feed all of my snakes weekly for the first year. Also what exactly do you mean by small rat. An adult mouse ( which is what you were feeding it) is about half the size of a small rat.
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, I'd chalk it up to what terra said.
Hahaha! Dude looked like a lady!
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Old 09-27-13, 09:19 AM   #12
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I'll try and get a photo up today with her next to something
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Hahaha! Dude looked like a lady!
? Ok you lost me on this??
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All of the avatar hair and the name Terra. I immediately thought of aerosmith.
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The avatar is Kerry King from slayer. Been my avatar on everything since 1999. I used to have long hair like that but not since about '91-'92

Terranaut is from when I was into offroading ...
Astronaut travels space, aquanaut travels the seas and terra means earth or land or in my case....mud!!!

Btw that is one of the worst Aerosmith songs IMHO
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