BCI size

I've heard that they are supposed to stay skinny, obviously when they get big as adults they are big. But how skinny would be too skinny??? My girl eats every 7 days and she's really skinny, she does have a nice plump spot in her when she does eat. Here's a pic, healthy looking or underweight??

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0.3 Normals (Coilette, Athena and Mary Jane)
1.0 Pastel (De Sol)
1.0 Spider (Zeus)
1.0 Mojave (Prometheus)

0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Stella)
0.1 BCI (Kiyoko)
0.1 Dumerils Boa

That looks like a very healthy boa to me!


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Cool :) just making sure!! She eats like a champ, even with the issue she had with her nose, she's a trooper!!!

She's also soooo pretty, she's my favorite out if all 9 of my snakes lol


0.3 Normals (Coilette, Athena and Mary Jane)
1.0 Pastel (De Sol)
1.0 Spider (Zeus)
1.0 Mojave (Prometheus)

0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Stella)
0.1 BCI (Kiyoko)
0.1 Dumerils Boa

She looks healthy to me and she has pretty colors :)

P.S I feed my young boas/every 5-7 days, baby cornsnakes every 4-6 days.

Looks healthy to me too! :) They always looks super skinny compared to BPs...until they start to thicken up later on anyway. :P But that shouldn't be for a long while yet. So no worries.

They kind of have a boxy shape to their bodies until they thicken up. So, she looks good. Also, every 7 days for a baby boa is fine. If she is slow to digest and defecate, you could even scale her back to 10 days. My little girl would get constipated if I fed her every 7, so I switched to 10 and she did much better. Once she hit a little over a year and was on Med rats I scaled that back even further to every 2 weeks. ;)

She looks fine. Young boas do not need to eat more than every 7 days. 7-10 is good. Their metabolism is much slower than balls. They should have that sort of rectangular shape to their body. They should not be plump and stout like bps. Also, their meal should not leave a large, noticeable bump.

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What makes you think she's skinny? Boas are supposed the be square/rectangular shaped like that. They are not supposed to be round unless they are rainbow boas, or anacondas, or something that is supposed to have that shape.

Well I didn't think she was, I was just curious as to what too skinny would be. As I said, I know they are not beefy like ball, even when older, they just get much bigger lol. But yeah, my BRB is round, my newest add. is also rounded, but the BCI is not!!!


0.3 Normals (Coilette, Athena and Mary Jane)
1.0 Pastel (De Sol)
1.0 Spider (Zeus)
1.0 Mojave (Prometheus)

0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Stella)
0.1 BCI (Kiyoko)
0.1 Dumerils Boa

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Well I didn't think she was, I was just curious as to what too skinny would be. As I said, I know they are not beefy like ball, even when older, they just get much bigger lol. But yeah, my BRB is round, my newest add. is also rounded, but the BCI is not!!!


0.3 Normals (Coilette, Athena and Mary Jane)
1.0 Pastel (De Sol)
1.0 Spider (Zeus)
1.0 Mojave (Prometheus)

0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Stella)
0.1 BCI (Kiyoko)
0.1 Dumerils Boa

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I think your BCI looks great. It's pretty easy to tell if they are skinny. They lose the muscle tone, the spine will show a little, and hopefully you'll never see one this bad but the ribs may possibly show.

As yours gets bigger you'll notice the muscle tone a lot more. Their muscle tone shows way more than other snakes.

Yeah I have noticed that, and, she seems to be pretty darn powerful already. I will be holding her, which she lives btw, and she will wrap all around my hand and its sooooo hard to get her off my fingers lol.


0.3 Normals (Coilette, Athena and Mary Jane)
1.0 Pastel (De Sol)
1.0 Spider (Zeus)
1.0 Mojave (Prometheus)

0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Stella)
0.1 BCI (Kiyoko)
0.1 Dumerils Boa