So how about having some fun with your Gaboons, Change how you keep them. Better yet, go play with them in nature and see if they compare to your captives.
Heres something important, what your observing it true, you are observing it. In that, your right. Then I have to ask, what does it have to do with the animal?
In most cases how we keep them is totally foreign to the snakes, its just how we keep them. Our methods, our schedules, our temps, etc. Are all based on us.
One major error is how they feed. In nature, there are no schedules. They eat when prey is available and do so as fast and efficient as possible. with the species I have worked with, fossorial types, normally only feed a few times a year, they do that is as short a time as possible, then return to cool temps and conserve energy. 8 times is what I call normal. But then, normal is odd in nature.
So do you think if you kept your Gaboons in a twenty by twenty cage(much smaller then nature) and had hot spots of 110F or more, deep substrate, burrows, logs, etc a pond even, and had food available at all times, would they behave the same as your mega poopers?
I would like to add, I have heard that about many species, including Condros, with that problem and in all cases, it was based on captive conditions, not a natural design. To make it simple, during periods of low activity, snakes do not have anything in their G.I. track, its clean as a whistle, and that is common sense. In most cases, hydration was important to the cause, not exclusive but important. ALso, its normal for natural snakes to emerge, take a dump then go about their daily business. While Gaboons can hold stuff longer, Iam not sure its what they would do normally. As in, its a captive problem. Lastly, holding waste has nothing to do with speed of digestion.
Also, Gaboons are not in question, hognose are and in comparison to kingsnakes.

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