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Hi all!

This morning when I was checking up on all the snakes, I discovered a lot of hard orange coloured clumps spread all over in my Candoia paulsoni cage, I have never in my 6 years with snakes seen anything like it, so I was wondering if any of you guys could give me an answer to what it is? The previous owner of the snakes told me that the female may be pregnant, so I was thinking if she could have aborted? She ate a rat fuzzy 5 days ago, and had a normal [bleep] last night as well.

Best regards,
Ole

Here are some pics of the clumps:

another pic of the clumps up close...

Those look like small pieces of the ate rodent which it puked as they seem very undigested. Wait a while, hydrate well, and try very small food items every two weeks and see if you can place some pancur in the food item to rid the snake of any worms and get a fecal done at a vet. Seems like a major digestion problem. Did you say you recently got the snake? If its belly is swollen like its gravid it could be an intestinal problem. Isolate it from your other snakes and if you can, return it asap to the seller and let him deal with the headache. Sorry if I am blunt.

Dan

I disagree with the last post about reguritated food (although I have been wrong before).

To me it looks like small pieces of what snake people call "slugs" or unfertilized embryos. It is odd that they are all shredded up. In my experience with slugs they are usually small round "egg shaped" orange colored gelatinous balls. I wouldn't worry to much about this yet. Make sure to Clean the cage thoroughly.

A litter/clutch of slugs and be caused by many things such as but not limited too-
- To cool of temps
- To young or old snake
- infertile male or female

I would also repost yours questions and pictures on the main boa forum to be a little faster response!

Good luck and keep us posted!!
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Definetely not a regurge...

Although rare, I have seen females eat unfertilized slugs. It looks like she threw a litter of sluggs and then broke them up either by crawling around on them or attempting to eat them.

just a guess