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Always have the biggest attitude I’ve been tagged 4 times In the past 2 days from my hatchling. Now that she has settled in she is getting super aggressive. Hopefully she chills out right now at a whopping 20 inch’s she isn’t so bad but once she gets a little bigger I might be in for some trouble lol... I’m gonna feed her agian tomorrow I gave her a pinkie and she has had a attitude ever since I’m thinking she is still hungry. Any input on the sudden change in her mood?


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Fear! Tiny snakes have the most to fear from predators who want to EAT them. They do NOT know why you're there...it takes time for them to learn
that you are harmless....I'm making an assumption here. ;) Might also be hunger...a pinkie isn't much food for a 20" snake, especially a boa.

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Originally Posted by Bogertophis

Fear! Tiny snakes have the most to fear from predators who want to EAT them. They do NOT know why you're there...it takes time for them to learn
that you are harmless....I'm making an assumption here. ;) Might also be hunger...a pinkie isn't much food for a 20" snake, especially a boa.

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Yeah I had my gf stop on the way home yesterday and I told her to get a rat pup and she brings me a ft pinkie so I fed it to her and I’m gonna try to re feed her something a little bigger tom. She did take the ft pinkie no problem. That kind of surprised me none the less.


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I think her temps are starting to even out as well I have my thermometer and hydrometer setting as close to my hot spot as possible and they rid about 55% and 87 degrees


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I think she’s hungry too, my litter of boas I had didn’t even start off on that it was small mice, a small or medium mouse sounds a lot more filling for her as long as it isn’t much thicker than the widest partway part of her body but at 20” should be fine
Good luck


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The pet shop I go to charges 5$ for a mouse no matter the size but diffrent sized rats are better priced so that was my reasoning behind it but she got me a pinkie that ended up being way to small


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I’d give her another then, that sounds expensive even if I convert it to pounds a small mouse is 45p and 65p for a medium so I guess that’s approx a $1 ish , so big difference, a large rat is only £1.50 if I buy 5 or more at a time


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I gave her a mouse it’s definitely a feeding thing I think cause when I opened it she was good I gave her the mouse.. she ate it and now when I open her container it’s like a little devil hissing so loud you can hear it across the room and strikes at everything that moves even the lid when I put it back on. I was just checking the temp.... I was like my bad I’ll come back later haha ... anyone have any tips on how to get her over that. Not a fan of getting bitten every time I check her temps or something ... and she is gonna get way bigger...


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