Dumerils boa sleeping issue

Hello I don't know if my boa is sleeping or not but twice I seen him laying down but he'll turn his head like how we'd sleep on a pillow. He eats every 2 weeks, poops normally, husbandry is fine and he doesn't throw up, have seziures, flip etc... He's a happy healthy snake and I don't handle him often I'm just a bit worried.

That’s the least of your worries. :)

Wait until he gets into contorted position and looks dead. That will get your heart racing. :rolleyes:

Haha my dumerils does that same thing sometimes. From having my girl ive come to the conclusion that dumerils do weird stuff all the time. My girl often eats with half her body upside down too!?!? Haha

It seams most of my snakes prefer to eat in their water bowl. I have seen them even drag it to the bowl. I have often wondered if this was a way of washing off their prey before chomping down on it?

Thats really interesting cause all of the snakes I ever have had refuse to eat anything remotely wet lol. They look at me like dude you want me to eat wet fur, go dry that please.


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Thats really interesting cause all of the snakes I ever have had refuse to eat anything remotely wet lol. They look at me like dude you want me to eat wet fur, go dry that please.


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Even my retic does it.

Boa do weird things, makes you wonder how they sleep when they have there coils piled on top of there head, Ive seen one of mine coil there food and hold it under water for what seems like ages. I hate when they cool and looks like they have snapped there neck,lol and just stay there for half hour and your worried they have and then decide to eat no problem


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Boa do weird things, makes you wonder how they sleep when they have there coils piled on top of there head, Ive seen one of mine coil there food and hold it under water for what seems like ages. I hate when they cool and looks like they have snapped there neck,lol and just stay there for half hour and your worried they have and then decide to eat no problem


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Yeah, and what really gets me is when I can’t tell if they are breathing or not. Then I get real close and figure about where the lungs are and study hard.

Well our Dumeril's decided to climb his branch the other day.

Silly Draco, branches are for arboreals :)

He's my favorite of all my snakes - but shhhh don't tell the other ones.

I posted earlier this week about finding my dumeril boa laying upsidedown except for his head was turned correctly. It freaked me out - first time ever seeing that. He was fine though.