Interesting read about boa & python feeding.

[Sauzo]

http://reptilefacts.tumblr.com/post/...688/on-feeding

[piedpipper]

Interesting! Most of us obsess over having high quality rats raised on specific food and frozen and packaged in a specific way and some guy was feeding his boa squirrels from his backyard and the snake lived into its forties... kind of makes you rethink how we feed our snakes lol.

[Fraido]

I scrolled down to "A Boa Rant" where whoever was ranting about how tubs are bad, minimum sized enclosures are bad, that they are arboreal and should have a pretty much vertical enclosure. I don't like it. I don't particularly like any Tumblr reptile thing.

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[Rob]

.... Tumblr


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[AbsoluteApril]

Regardless of the sourse (tumblr), Warren Booth is a well respected and admired member of the boa and reptile community.
I agree with his statements and have had great success with slow growing, low feeding on my reptiles and seen first had early deaths caused by early power feeding.

[Reinz]

Interesting Sauzo, thank you.

The writer said that it was rare for these snakes to live past ten years. He's assuming that it is rare for folks to Not overfed their snakes. While many snakes are overfed, I think it is a stretch to insinuate that most snakes are indeed overfed.

[Sauzo]

Well I too am not a tumblr fan but I thought the article was interesting and being from a well known person in the boa and reptile community like April said, I definitely give it credibility.

And Reinz, assuming at minimum a 2-3 week period is needed for a boa or python or completely go through the "feeding cycle", I would bet 90% of the people who own boas or pythons as a whole do overfeed. I know i'm guilty of it myself as well.

[Fraido]

I feed every 2-3 weeks. I don't see anything wrong with that article. I just don't like the Boa Rant post.

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[Sauzo]

I scrolled down to "A Boa Rant" where whoever was ranting about how tubs are bad, minimum sized enclosures are bad, that they are arboreal and should have a pretty much vertical enclosure. I don't like it. I don't particularly like any Tumblr reptile thing.

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I didn't even see that part. I just ripped the feeding topic off it as I originally saw it on some guys phone. I suppose I could have gotten it from another site. It is actually a published thing from Warren Booth. As for the other stuff, not sure about tubs being bad and minimum size being bad although I do like to offer my boas cages large enough to semi stretch out in. As for them being arboreal, I will agree that they are semi arboreal. Nothing like a GTP or ETB but I know both my gals actually love to climb up on top of a dresser next to my bed or up on a shelf over the bed and perch up there looking down. Boas in the wild will climb trees. Again nothing like a GTP or ETB who spend like 80% of their time in the trees. Anyways, the feeding part is pretty interesting.

[Sauzo]

I feed every 2-3 weeks. I don't see anything wrong with that article. I just don't like the Boa Rant post.

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Lol yeah I didn't even see that part. And yeah I do a 2-3 week feeding for all my gals including my BP but I might move them to a 3-4 week feeding after reading about this since all my gals are pretty much adults now.