Our new girl Sonia

[Albert Clark]

Grats! Amazing addition! So you get bit by your snake and now he has to be rehomed? Sad.

[Eavlynn]

I'm hoping to get a rough estimate on age as she grows. If she grows at a slow steady rate, she's probably still only a few months old. If she's 5 or more months old, I would expect to see exponential growth with regular feeding. We have a male and female ball, one was 5 months, the other a yearling, and they were both the same size. After some appropriately sized weekly meals, our little dude took off. He's more than twice the size of our little girl. I would assume that the same theory could be applied to the boas we have?

In the end, her age doesn't much matter. I'm thrilled that we have her, and look forward to watching her grow! I'm sure she'll grow up to be as beautiful as your boy, Cloud, is handsome

[CloudtheBoa]

They seem to grow about the same rate throughout the first year, depending on feeding.

If she's been underfed she'll explode in growth regardless of how old she is, but she looks in good condition.

Just be sure not to overfeed her, too much food is as bad as too little (maybe even worse)! She should be getting mouse hoppers every 7-14 day at her size.

I wouldn't necessarily expect her to grow too awfully much, these guys aren't ball pythons, they shouldn't grow all that fast. I'd say if she's 2.5'-3' once you've had her 9-12 months she's doing good.


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[Eavlynn]

Little Sonia is on a 7 day schedule at the moment, being fed 10% of her weight. If she starts filling out girth wise, faster than she's growing length wise, we'll bump her to 10 days, then 14 after that, and so on. We definitely don't want our boas to be overweight, or at risk for fatty liver disease. I'd like to have them both around for 30 to 40 years.

Albert- I know! If we rehomed snakes whenever we got nipped we wouldn't have any of our little carpets, or one of our BPs. Snakes aren't for everyone though, and at least we can be content knowing that this little gal will be happy, loved, and long lived in our care.

[dkatz4]

What a tail, just beautiful all around, congrats! LOL he was 22!

[CloudtheBoa]

Don't feed by weight it's power feeding for a boa. You should be feeding something that is about her girth or smaller that leaves a small lump with no scale separation. 10% is kinda close to that while they're small but as they get bigger it becomes more and more food.

Feed based on what size lump the meal leaves not the percentage of weight.


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[BigLou3]

She is on a 7 day schedule right now. While she is small she is getting 10% of her body weight since it seems to be appropriate. She is getting a hopper for dinner tonight which is 10g and she weighed 109. Once she gets larger we will base it more on "lump" size lol. We just want her to be happy and healthy.


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