Behira - 2016 Female Ivory Ghost - First BCI

Behira shed. She also turned 6 years old this month and got a nice medium rat for dinner tonight.

She's doing great and will be on large rats soon.

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That's a snake for you- we ask them to smile for the camera & all they want to do is hide their face under a pillow...:D

I had on the perfect shirt for cleaning water bowls today. Everyone came out for a bit and Katie was downstairs watching a movie, so she took some pics of me with Behira.

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Perfect shirt! :cool:

Behira looking awsome mr Dave and definitely a perfect shirt for the photo [emoji7][emoji7][emoji106][emoji106]

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Behira weighed in empty today at 2,550G. She's only gained about 100G in the past 9 months. She's probably averaged eating a medium rat every three weeks over the past year, although I try to feed every two weeks. As many of you know, things have been crazy with the house, especially the basement and reptile area this past year, so it's been difficult to stick to the 2 week regiment.

In any event, I think it's time to move her up to large rats every three weeks versus mediums every two weeks. Any thoughts?

Good looking boa, and so is the other one.

You can easily move up the sizes you feed both of them.

Unless you are feeding something completely unreasonable in size, you won't have an issue.

Behira looks amazing Dave! I agree with bumping up her prey size at this point. As you know I feed my snakes a little on the heavier side but nothing extreme. For contrast, my 2017 male BI and 2018 female BCO have been on large rats since late last year. I feed them every 3-4 weeks. I don’t normally weigh my snakes but I just put the BI on the scale and he’s 2733g. He did have a chick for a snack a week ago so he’s not totally empty.

Thanks for the comments. Behira is moving up to large rats this week!

Behira ate her first large rat tonight.

I had to postpone feeding a week because of Alpha, my dog who was very sick.

From now on, I'll plan to feed every 3 weeks and a large rat.