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Originally Posted by razeraze
Tammy do you mind if I pass this observation on to the herpetologists I have talked to about this? Do you have a recording of the temperatures for those days and the scientific names for the snakes?
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Not specific yet (I am going to try and get the exact temps from the Met Office here) re the temperatures, but I know they must have been in the high 60's to lower 70's. Normally at this time of year here in Kingston, the temps at night get between about 76-83 or higher.
The little trope is I believe what is called a Hispaniolan Trope, but was found here and given to me, I also acquired another one exactly the same kind, some years earlier, also found here. Tropidophis Haetianus Hemerus. Check out:
www.kingsnake.com/westindian/metazoa12.htm. I do not have absolute confirmation that this is actually the trope I have, I go from a picture on the site I have mentioned, which seems identical to what I have.
The trope was given a live fuzzy mouse - his usual fare - on the evening (about 7 p.m.) at the same time as the young Jamaican boa (Epicrates Subflavus) was given a live pinky rat - also his usual fare along with mice sometimes. Neither of these snakes had EVER regurged before while I had them.
Not the next morning but the morning after that, the smell alerted me, and as I checked I saw that they had both regurged their meals. I can now see that there was no explanation why two different snakes, in good health, no previous regurges, should suddenly both regurge other than that they both experienced the inability to properly digest their meals because of the lower than normal temps, and I had neglected to attend to this fact.
Will try to find out the exact temps on those days.
Very interesting!
