OK so here is the scenario. I just separated my males as they were (doing very little for a couple of days) for a feed. Bear in mind that my season has been a bit "sluggish" as far as courting attempts so far. As I was checking the my setups I noticed that one of my heat pads that was on the bottom of my AP cage has fallen off (adhesive went beat) and is no longer touching the cage (I have an inch spacer between stacked cages). This is no the cage that the Yagi female is in (who was breeding Hercules). Just for kicks I decided to check her body temp as the ambient is only around 81° at this point. Guess what.....Her body temps are in the high 80's.



The gound she is sitting on ... well ... see for yourself....



This pair has only been together since 10-26-07. Breeding has been "sparatic" at best and I have not seen ovulation. She doesn't really appear to be going into shed but I will give it a check over the next few days. All of my other snakes (including the other female that is breeding) are reading between 80 and 82 and they have heat.

My questions are....
*is it possible for a boa without a heat source to raise their body temps to that extent
*could she be raising it because she is already gravid and I just missed ovulation and it is before she is going into her POS

Any opinions would be appreciated.

Thanks
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• Gravid body temp questions - danktat, Thu Nov 15 01:03:16 2007
• RE: Gravid body temp questions - liquidleaf, Thu Nov 15 07:50:37 2007
• RE: Gravid body temp questions - jscrick, Thu Nov 15 08:23:33 2007
• RE: Gravid body temp questions - EricIvins, Thu Nov 15 08:48:01 2007
• RE: Gravid body temp questions - danktat, Thu Nov 15 09:53:07 2007
• RE: Gravid body temp questions - EricIvins, Thu Nov 15 10:18:11 2007
• a good test - mack1time, Thu Nov 15 18:00:20 2007
• One thing I have noticed is... - boaphile, Thu Nov 15 16:38:43 2007
• Just an update - danktat, Sat Nov 17 13:14:15 2007