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ok, ive been around and owned herps for 10 years now. i just want to reasure myself on 2 things.
1. why would and adult female columbian whos been a great eatter for 8 years stop for 3 feedings in a row? husbandry has not changed. pregnancy is one thing that comes to mind...see ? 2 for that. she is my favorite snake so i dont want to start thinking cancer or anything yet...
2. how often have you looked at an adult female columbian and seen a short tail, assumed "its a girl" and been wrong? the girl in #1 situation has been probed, many times even to show others how, the snake in part 2 was looked at assumed a girl, and never confermed, i have also seen #2 stroking #1 with the tip or the tail and really thought nothing of it

im going to look up how soon to get radiographs on a pregnant columbian, and ill take her to work for one at that time, hopfully i fond a suprise clutch and not something bad!

(cross posted on boas also)
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hanging out under heat lights burns up my brain cells!!

What's the gestation on boas, isn't it 103 days? It's been a while and I've forgotten. I would expect to see baby skeletons in the third trimester. Before skeletal developement, X-rays may still show something, but figuring out what it is is super difficult and still pretty much guesswork. You might have better luck with an ultrasound.

Do you work at a vet clinic? Let me know if you need pointers with your X-ray settings for snakes.

Ian

she ended up eatting overnight, i am going to get the other one probed(in a while, blue now), the one that wasent eatting is in good enough shape to breed, but id rather her be almost overweight if im going to breed her. i did think about the ultrasound, we just got a new one, would be great test!! i wish we had our digital rads they have been looking into and promising us forever, then i could post them here!!! if i have anything small that needs rads ill use the dental rads, we have them in digital and share them here!!!
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hanging out under heat lights burns up my brain cells!!

I second the use of dental radiography, they supposedly work really well on smaller exotics, I've never had the opportunity to try though. Another machine that's probably even better are human mammography machines. The detail's supposed to be amazing.

As for digitals, taking pictures on the x-ray viewer has always worked for me

Ian