Re: Victoria has her first quail!
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Gio
Good deal bud!
Your boa is stunning! I love her actually. You've gone camera-less for too long.
I just fed Wallace about 30 seconds ago. He's shy but crossed his long branch to get the prey and hammered it. He was quite motivated today. I'm keeping to the 7-10 day schedule that Kris recommended and am quite happy with how things are going.
You have got me into looking for much smaller quail than I usually buy, but I should have expected this with a new, baby snake.
Variety is crucial IMO. If we can mix it up in size, variety, and frequency I think we'll be looking at healthy, long lived animals.
Boas are a whole different story for digestion, but I think learning their feeding regime is helpful when owning other snakes with the exception of extremely active and foraging colubrids. I am convinced 95% of captive snakes are overfed still.
Wallace is done with his rat now LOL!
When spring hits, I want to see a "Color Morph" post from you. Though I'm a natural "Mother Nature" pattern guy I can sure appreciate beauty.
I like your animals and enjoy the differences in various collections. Its a great hobby to share with friends that have different things from your own.
Sadly, none of us are anywhere close to one another to stop by for a beer and feeding event.
I have 1, ONE, UNO, snake friends that lives near me, the rest are on the boards LOL!
Thanks man and it's funny, I've been looking into the natural look now and have been eyeballing BCC lol. I think the variety is what makes the hobby fun. Staring at nothing but morphs and nothing but naturals can get boring. Need to mix it up just like the snakes' food.
And you have one more friend than I got that like reptiles. I'm like the oddball when it comes to pets.
And Caesar is a bit shy when I reach in to pick him up but once on me, he loves to just curl up on my arms and relax. When it comes to food though, he definitely isn't shy lol.
There is no way I could go 10 days with Caesar. He would go ballistic. 5 days seems to be his limit before he is in hunt mode and cruising all over at night. Heck in the day he pops his head out of the hide whenever something happens near him lol. Kris told me he was an eater and would eat anything, he wasn't kidding lol.
And yeah I do think a lot of snakes are overfed. I think though that baby retics want/need to eat a lot in the first year to put on that weight and length. After a year, i'll probably drop Caesar down to 1 item a week or possibly 1 item every 2 weeks depending how he looks and acts when the time comes. Like I said, he really loves to eat and he digests food so freakin fast. Its like in the mouth and out the butt in about 4-5 days. Even the boas as babies didn't come that close to pooping lol.
He is growing faster than I planned though. I'm beginning to think he isn't going to top out at 7'. I'm going to plan for 10' and be pleasantly surprised if he doesn't reach that.
Re: Victoria has her first quail!
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Sandi1961
LOL, I have one friend who appreciates my scale babies...and my niece (who used to be terrified of snakes until she got up enough nerve to handle mine and now has 2 BP'S and a retic). Most people look at me like I'm nuts because I have snakes!
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Lol she jumped in with both feet getting a retic. That would be like me getting a bird eating spider.....I HATE spiders lol. More power to her though as it would be cold day in hell before I would ever hold a spider haha.
Re: Victoria has her first quail!
I am not a fan of arachnids either! My niece will let her friend's tarantula crawl all over her! Thank goodness she fell in love with snakes instead!
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