Hi and greetings from the Carribean, Can anyone ID this snake?

[ferminethesnakeman]

Guys, seriously, have you even read the OP's posts? Do you know anything about Epicates Cenchria?

This is a wild snake caught on the island of Trinidad, a fairly well-known island Northeast of Venezuela and Northwest of Guyana.

There are nine recognized subspecies of rainbow boa, what makes you all SOOOO sure that it's a BRAZILIAN rainbow boa? My guess is that it's because YOU think it's the most common, because here in the US, it is.

It doesn't take much effort to just look up species native to Trinidad. All the rainbow boas on Trinidad are currently classified as:

Epicrates cenchria maurus, or the COLOMBIAN rainbow boa, which only makes sense since their range is much more northern compared to BRBs.

Thats right ! we are closer to Venezuela than Guyana, i can swim across to vene. its so close.ussually there are anacondas floating across ,thats what fishermen say.This is 16 inches long and very agressive. but i have a problem !!! HE IS NOT EATING THE LIZARD! I used to feed a coral snake geco's but this guy is not going after it, so i let it go this morning and ill buy a white mice tommorow, i bet he'll be running after it . tomm. will be seven days since he ate the buddgie.Would he Eat, or being wild would he starve himself????

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my vote is BRB. its not a very pretty one. maybe a weird mix of localities. but it just seems to dark and the lines too well define for a Colombian imo.

[Wh00h0069]

Thats right ! we are closer to Venezuela than Guyana, i can swim across to vene. its so close.ussually there are anacondas floating across ,thats what fishermen say.This is 16 inches long and very agressive. but i have a problem !!! HE IS NOT EATING THE LIZARD! I used to feed a coral snake geco's but this guy is not going after it, so i let it go this morning and ill buy a white mice tommorow, i bet he'll be running after it . tomm. will be seven days since he ate the buddgie.Would he Eat, or being wild would he starve himself????

I don't know about BRBs, but wild caught ball pythons are often times tough to get eating in captivity. Do you best to make sure the snake feels secure, and he should start eating for you. If he doesn't have a hide box, put one in, and try the live mouse. I doubt he will refuse that. Good luck.

[ferminethesnakeman]

I don't know about BRBs, but wild caught ball pythons are often times tough to get eating in captivity. Do you best to make sure the snake feels secure, and he should start eating for you. If he doesn't have a hide box, put one in, and try the live mouse. I doubt he will refuse that. Good luck.

thanks alot whoohoo 69, He or she does not have any hiding plae and i did not get any mice today so i am going to get one tommorow, that would make it eight days since his last meal, i am making sure it gets water every day. i hope eight days is not too long. thank for the info .