Vibrations in my snakes belly?

by **warbot** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:20 am

Yesterday (25/10/2009 - Sunday) I took out my female Easter Tiger snake, the big one, and I felt this vibration coming from her belly, she didn't eat anything this weekend by the way. This is not the first time I felt this but I thought I am imagining things, anyway, but yesterday I felt it very clear! and the duration went on for a quite a while, about 15sec... long enough for my girlfriend to feel it as well.

I asked a few people I know, and they said they also felt this on some of their snakes, no real explanation, and some think that it might have a ticklish reaction to human touch.

...can someone please clear this up, and tell me what this actually is.

Thanks in advance

by **Fooble** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:31 am

Is it not the snake vibrating it's tail/end section?
I haven't noticed this with this species but ive seen it in others.

by **warbot** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:34 am

nope, it is coming from inside the snake, when they are still inside your hands, you can't see it just feel it.
the tail think I'm use to, this is totally different! feels very weird!

by **Amphibian** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:46 am

How old is your snake?

by **warbot** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:01 am

No idea how old she is, I only got her the other day.

..maybe..

Has anyone else ever encountered this strange behavior, if I can call it that?

by **Serpy** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:32 am

Eastern tiger snake = Telescopus semiannulatus

by **Amphibian** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:46 am

The snake is vibrating from the inside.....maybe muscle spasms?
Curious that you have seen this in other species. Perhaps it is the food from the area.

by **warbot** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:59 am

shes on frozen pinks from time to time, actually want to put her off food for a while.. fat!

by **warbot** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:00 pm

I havn't seen this but people I spoke to about this have...

by **Buck Rogers** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:26 pm

warbot wrote:shes on frozen pinks from time to time, actually want to put her off food for a while.. fat!

Telescopus don't do well on rodents, the guys who have kept them alive and had success with them have fed lizards.

by **warbot** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:42 pm

..oh that... , so Br you are telling me that it could be because of the diet?
and thanks alberts, I wasn't thinking medical terms lol, I thought it was slang for a condition or parasite or something lol

thanx guys,

by **LeglessDragon** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:48 pm

I have felt vibrations on my texes rat snake, but it has been further down the body (just past mid-section towards the tail). This is, however, due to the fact that he is 'wagging' or vibrating his tail and also depends on how I am holding him.

by **warbot** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:07 pm

yes from midbody, but the tail wasn't doing anything, even though I must say that she wasn't to pleased with me handling her, and I feel that this could be either 3 things
1. It is kind of a deterrent, a form of first defense like a king's defecation.
2. a spasm/cramp
3. a kind of internal infection due to parasites

if 3 how would I know for sure and what can I do to cure this.

by **Buck Rogers** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:34 pm

I have never kept and killed (a joke to all the guys who have not had luck with them

) any of the Telescopus so I can not tell you exactly but if it could be that it is struggling to digest. I know people who keep them only feed them every second week on lizards/geckos.

by **Serpy** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:39 pm

Buck, i've kept semi's and beetzi, Semi's do just fine on rodents, beetzi don't. Nothing wrong with feeding semiannulatus on nestling rodents.

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