Rainbow Boa Vomiting

[ArcoIris]

Hello all!

New forum member here. First, I hope everyone is doing well in these times of so much uncertainty.

I’m writing this post in hopes any info or help gleaned helps others in the future as to this point, I’ve found no help or assistance for my snakes issues.

My snake is vomiting some sort of thick white mucus like membrane. Could be a worm, could be a mucus membrane.

No, it is not the urate that usually accompanies feces. No it is not regurgitate. I know what these things look like as I have 30 years of keeping boas and never seen anything like this. I will post pics for hope someone can identify.

Backstory.

My feeder rat moved to Memphis. I ordered new frozen rat feeder for her in January and she fed immediately as she has since hatch over 6 years ago. That would be the last time she fed. She would not accept any more of the rats I order (40 pack) and no, she has never refused food in her life. It is now 4 months and a shed since she’s eaten which is obviously concerning.

She has an amazing home with two large hides in both temp gradients and all husbandry sound as it’s been for decades. I know how to create a great environment complete with temp, humidity gradient and monitoring so it isn’t any of that. She is the lone reptile and has never been outside so she couldn’t have “caught” anything.

So, the only variable is the new feeders.

I was alarmed by the “fasting” as again she’s never refused food but she is more active than ever. Which is kind of wierd considering she hasn’t eaten. What is even more wierd is she is active and out of her hides all day. Prior to the feeding in January she has been nocturnal as is normal for her species. Now, she’s out and active all day.

Although she is perfectly docile, I rarely handle her As I’m aware that snakes don’t like us. I’m not one of these noobs who argue this, I know for a fact snakes prefer to be left alone. So she isn’t stressed for from handling, same large aquarium for years so she hasn’t been stressed from a new move.

I’m at a loss. Vets are clueless by me and short staffed because of the virus. Don’t know what to do.

I have removed and replaced all substrate and furniture. I will attach pics of the discharge in hopes someone has seen this before once I figure out how to do so. I keep getting errors telling me to manually resize photos.

Thanks for reading my novel 😩.