Thursday, February 9, 2012

I have a lavender bannanna king snake?

i gave him a pinkey 4 days ago and the day before yesterday he spit it back up i got up the morning and now he is all wrinkly and im worried whats wronghe is a little sluggish is he shedding? help!!!!!!!!!!

I have a lavender bannanna king snake?
get an orange queen snake for him
Reply:Temps are wrong, you over fed him, he didn't digest it properly. SO don't feed him for a good 10 days at least so he can heal.
Reply:No... I have a lavendar banana kingsnake, too. First, don't feed him every three days. That's too soon. If he ate it, he obviously wanted it, so you didn't overfeed him. However, the wrinkles make me wonder if he's a) too skinny to begin with and needs to be fed more prey items at each feeding or b) is dehydrated. My albino (Ayden) got really dehydrated once. He just didn't drink enough and got really wrinkled and sluggish. I called the vet frantic and the vet said it was renal failure and that he would die. The vet said all I could do to make him comfortable before he died was up the heat, get the humidity as high as possible (80-90%) and keep offering food. Today, he's happy and healthy. The vet was wrong. So... that's my advice for you. What also helped was me picking him up and putting his face near his water dish to persuade him to drink. He was too tired to even make it over to his dish!



Best of luck! If you work hard with keeping the temps and humidity up, I bet he turns around, too. :)
Reply:I think that you should check on his temperature. The main time that snakes regurgitate is when the temps are not correct. If he is wrinkly he is either dehydrated or is about to shed. You did not say how old this snake is. ....



You can IM me if you need more help... note I am not a professional snake person but I do have a couple of them.


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