Dumeril's boas

YAY! a dumerils thread...

guys i have a young dum now, who "supposedly" was eating 1 stunned mouse every 1-2 weeks with some local guy that bought her a few months ago for his son... :confuzd:
when he brought her to my home on saturday because i was buying her with her current set-up (pics in my thread)...i saw EVERYTHING that was wrong with the set up (also described in detail in my thread) & have since corrected it & her temps & humidity are stable now for the next 7-10 days im gonna let her be to calm down. now im hearing about how dumerils can be hard to start with eating & everything i saw with the set up has me doubting whether or not she ever even ate anything with her previous owner.
with what was going on & how stressed she is, there's no way she was eating...i just dont believe it. i'm tempted to weigh her today so i can start tracking it through this since i have no idea if she was eating or how well. she's supposed to be around a year old & i need ya'll with experience in owning dums to look at the pics i have in my thread & let me know if that looks like a very small 1 yr old or maybe could be younger then that. i dont know what size hatchlings are so its hard to guess.

Yeah get a current weight so you can start to track her from now on.

As long as she is not looking skinny, I wouldn't worry to much.
A link to your thread might help.

Mine is coming around now and has been eating once every 7 days now :)

ok 3skulls...this is my thread.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...read-PIC-HEAVY

hang on gonna go weigh this girl now brb...
her weight is 531g
she's close to 3 ft long as her set up is 30" long & she is slightly longer then it.

Ah ok.
Evenstar has you on the right path and I don't know what else I could add. I have only had my little girl for a couple of months now.
I would just get everything running smooth and let her settle in.
Just keep an eye on her weight and I wouldn't worry much if she refuses a few meals.

Mine was really picky at first but a I said, she seems to be coming around now :)

Good luck with her.

lol okee dokee
she got mad at me AFTER i put her back in her cage & hit the glass :weirdface:

& im sitting there like "umm. please dont hurt your face."

My baby female Dumerils is about 190gm give or take a bit. She was about 150gm when I got her in February and she was about 6 months old at that time. It took me a month to get her to feed. But she is eating a small adult mouse every week consistently now.

Just be patient with her, give her some space, privacy, and time, and I am sure she'll do fine for you. She does not appear skinny at all - she looks to be a good weight in the pics you posted. Have you even tried to feed her yet at all? She might surprise you and snap it right up. But if she doesn't, don't worry, she will eventually. And it won't hurt her to skip a few meals. She'll be fine. :gj:

oh ok. well thats reassuring.
i have tried feeding her & she just strikes but doesnt grab so they're just defensive strikes.
i've got a rat due to deliver any day now so i'll offer the boa one of the babies when its a fuzzie, about a week & a half-ish after they're born.

My dums ate after I gave her 5 days to settle in on the first attempt with a pinkie rat. She has also ate every time I offer her a rat, so she's not like talks at all lol. I am getting her an AP T8 in the future, cannot wait to do that!!

Ball Pythons
0.2 Normals (Coilette and Mary Jane)
1.0 Spider Morph (Zeus)
1.0 Pastel (De Sol)

Boas
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Stella)
0.1 Hog Island BCI (Kiyoko)
0.1 Dumerils Boa (Gloria)
0.1 Yellow Anaconda (Serenity)