Posted by:
Ian Long
at Mon Jul 20 21:17:03 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Ian Long ]
Try to relax. Gaboons are slow to do everything except strike.I have a 14 y/o pair. When the female was young and had gone 3 months without a BM I tried longer and longer warm soaks, then got panicky and made her swim in the bathtub and even massaged her belly. She waited a week after I gave up and quit all this before having a BM after a total of 4 months, as if to say,"you can't make me poop!". In later years both snakes have gone as long as 6 months between BMs. It has been suggested that retaining feces is a natural strategy to help anchor their feeding strike. Of course there is a possibility that ingested aspen shavings, which I seem to see in your photo, could result in an impaction. But if this ever occurs I'm not sure there is anything that can be done.
Good luck,
Ian Long
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- Gaboon #2 - texasviper619, Mon Jul 20 18:38:23 2009
 RE: Gaboon #2 - Ian Long, Mon Jul 20 21:17:03 2009
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