No poop

GUITARZAN509 · 08-04-12, 08:47 AM

Just got my baby stp bout a month ago shes roughly 8 weeks old now has been eating well but still hasnt pooped, is this normal for a young stp ? Afraid shes inpacted ??

moshirimon · 08-04-12, 09:10 AM

make sure your temps are correct. Bloods dont poop very often like other snakes, but i'm not sure about a month for a baby that small.

Wildside · 08-04-12, 09:18 AM

and they will have trouble pooping if you don't have their humidity correct

CDN_Blood · 08-04-12, 09:37 AM

90% of people keeping Bloods underfeed them and worry that they're constipated and such, but it's usually a case of the snake simply not having enough food to warrant emptying itself out. It takes a LOT of food going in before they have enough built up to dump it. Bloods quite simply aren't like any other snake.

GUITARZAN509 · 08-04-12, 10:31 AM

She not unerfed and shes also has plenty of humidity, she stays in her humidity bowl that has damp moss in, maybe its as moshirimon says ? Not going as often as other species do, also temps are in the mid 80s in middle of habitat
P.S Shes eating fuzzy rats or large sized or hopper or weanling size mice once a week

**Aaron_S** · 08-04-12, 10:52 AM

weanling mice? Rat pups kiddo. She'll be fine.

How much humidity DOES she have? What is the actual reading? Maybe the reason she's constantly in the moss is because it's the highest point and still not sufficient.

Anyway, Todd is correct. Just keep feeding her. She'll poop when she needs to. Be prepared. It'll be like no other you've seen. They compete with the likes of retics and burms.

CDN_Blood · 08-04-12, 11:26 AM

The point I was trying to make is that they *do* dump as often as other snakes, it's that they're often just not fed enough to be as regular as they should be. Like Aaron mentioned, they're on par with Retics and Burms for that. It's just that it takes a ton of food to constitute a proper meal for a Blood.

Toronto1977 · 08-04-12, 11:50 AM

Guitar, Todd specializes in Bloods so I would listen to the advice he's giving. Anyone on here i'm sure would agree.

GUITARZAN509 · 08-04-12, 11:50 AM

Ok thx all

GUITARZAN509 · 08-04-12, 11:55 AM

Any suggestions for amping up the humidity ? Like substrate ect ? I was using reptibark for my other snakes but changed to newspaper to make cleaning easier and better, snakes are in screened lid tanks, yea i know heard thats not good for humidity

CDN_Blood · 08-04-12, 02:29 PM

You could always try putting a small tub of damp Forest Moss in there. They *love* to dig and bury themselves in it, and that's the easiest stuff to manage for that

GUITARZAN509 · 08-04-12, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by CDN_Blood

You could always try putting a small tub of damp Forest Moss in there. They *love* to dig and bury themselves in it, and that's the easiest stuff to manage for that

Thats what i have in with her now and she stays in it all the time, buried

GUITARZAN509 · 08-04-12, 05:34 PM

Ok just found a good article saying that they have a different metabolism then most snakes so im ok now thx all for help

**Aaron_S** · 08-04-12, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by GUITARZAN509

Ok just found a good article saying that they have a different metabolism then most snakes so im ok now thx all for help

Sooo why not post this "good" article so all of us can learn more since you didn't like our advice?

Toronto1977 · 08-04-12, 06:07 PM

+1 Would like to read this enlightening article.