Now that my female has been eating steadily I'm wondering if I should cut back her feedings. She was originally given to me as a "he" by a couple who could no longer care for her due to their landlord not wanting her in the place.
She was only eating live hamsters and gerbils :S Because that's all they could find. She would not take frozen. It took me about a year and a half and some of the most unique tricks in the trade for enticing her, but now she eats f/t no problem at all and never misses a meal. In fact she now KNOWS that her food is pre-dead and doesn't hardly ever bother to "kill" it. She just kinda slinks up to it and starts swallowing. Occasionally she will take it off the tongs, but mostly she just spends a whole lot of time sniffing and nosing it, and then my arm gets tired so I just lay it down on top of her hide for her.
But anyways, currently she eats a "Colossal" sized rat (600+g or so) every 21 days to a month, sometimes she will eat more frequently if I happen to thaw too many rats for the balls, but usually those are just little snacks for her. Even the Colossal rats don't seem to leave much of a lump in her at all.
Which is why I was going to try her on rabbits but I can't seem to find a reliable source.
I am just worried because you always hear about how boas get obese really easily! I probably handle her the most out of all my snakes, though "handling" for her is mostly her hanging out around my neck while I cruise the forums or whatever. She doesn't move all that much!
I guess I don't really have any good full-bodied shots of her currently so these will have to do. She is going blue now so once she's done with the shed I will let her out and take some photos of her whole body, weigh her, and measure how long she is!
And this one is from October last year, but I'm sure she has grown since then:
Anyways. Just wondering on feeding her, I don't want her to be overweight!
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