A few days ago I fed all of my Kenyans. While feeding them I noticed that my female who gave birth recently had a bit of old skin on her still, so I dug her out tonight to check on her. I was holding my anery Kenyan from the same tank too, and when I put the anery back, some reddish-brown liquid sort of squirted out of the other snake's mouth. Now I've been working with snakes (both at home and at work) for about 5 years, so I've dealt with plenty of regurges before, and this was like nothing I've ever experienced.

1. She ate an appropriately-sized meal a few days ago, is not stressed out from handling, and I wasn't treating her roughly in any way. I don't know why she regurged/vomited.

2. I can't even begin to accurately describe how extraordinarily foul-smelling this liquid was... At least 100x worse than any regurge I've experienced before. I'm the kind of person who can stand over a rotting sea lion carcass to examine the maggots writhing around in it, but after smelling what just happened, I feel like I'm going to regurge something. This happened in my bedroom where I keep these snakes, and even after opening the window and saturating the floor in Resolve I still don't know if I'm going to be able to sleep in there.

Has this ever happened to anyone before? Should I keep a closer eye on this snake in case any health problems develop? I know how to deal with snakes that have "normal" regurges, but I just want to see if this was something unusual. Thanks in advance for any help.
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- Natalie
(San Francisco Bay Area)

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