Drago the boa

Hey guys first post here. Just wanted to show you guys my new boa I just acquired from someone. They said they no longer could care for or have time for him. From what the told me guy works at a critter control place and this is a snake he had to remove from someone’s apartment. No one ever claimed him and he has had him for 2 years. So all we really know is he is some type of red tail and a hypo morph and a male. So anyways enough talking here is the pics

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Really nice
Looking Hypo


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Any guess to how old he is the previous owner didn’t really know. Just that he was really tiny when he got him and he has had him for two years


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Nice hypo. There is no way to really tell the age as they all grow different and also based on feeding to an extent. I have an almost 6 year old normal BCI girl who is about 7 feet. I also have an early 2014 sunglow female who is about 6 feet. Then i have a couple who are just over 2 years old and just over 3 feet. If any of that info helps you in maybe trying to guess an age on your snake.

Also, get that poor guy out of that fish tank and into a nice PVC cages :) And my vote goes to AP cages even though they take forever and a day to get but are well worth the wait.

Beautiful hypo...great score!

I definitely plan to get him a pvc cage. One step at a time with the girlfriend lol. But I have a problem so I got him a couple days ago and the previous owner told me he is due to eat this weekend that it’s been two weeks so I went and bought him a medium rat today. He has no interest in him at all the rat will literally walk up and smell his face and drago just stares at him and flicks his tongue so now I’m stuck with this rat to try agian in a few days I’m sure with the move and stuff he still might be stressed but what do I do with the rat I know I can’t just leave him in thier with Draco and I have no where to keep the rat at...


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So two days ago Draco climbed into his water bowl and stayed thier most of the night next day I checked he pooped so I was like ok good that’s what it was but ever since then the past two days he has been spending a lot of time in thier... why? Nothing has changed


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So two days ago Draco climbed into his water bowl and stayed thier most of the night next day I checked he pooped so I was like ok good that’s what it was but ever since then the past two days he has been spending a lot of time in thier... why? Nothing has changed


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Maybe humidity is too low & he's going into a shed? (did you check for mites?) What happened with the rat? (was he eating f/t before? most boas take easily, live
rats are dangerous to snakes...they can kill them if the snake doesn't feel like eating & kill them first)

He was eating live before that’s why I got live and I took it out and kept it in a temp cage and every few days I would drop it back in with the lights off for about an hour each time until he ate it I only had to offer it three times he ate it third time. That was last Friday


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And humidity is at 70%


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And I did look for mites but I’ve never seen them in person so not exactly sure what to look for


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Mites will be tiny black/brown specks on the snake, in the water bowl after soaking, or in the cage (harder to spot unless you’re using white towels/paper. The easiest way to check is to take a damp white paper towel and run it over the snake. If you have black specks on the towel, you generally have mites.

What are the temperatures in the cage (low and high)? If the snake is trying to cool off, that will get them in the water bowl. Also, if the snake is trying to hide and doesn’t have an actual hide, that will cause them to get into the water bowl. My adult female boa usually lays out in the open, but every once in a while she’ll get under her hide.

I took his hide out cause it was really big and he hasn’t went into it once and I needed it for a new arrival and it was the only one that I had that was big enough for her to go in now I’m afraid to put it back in with him and it’s 80 degrees 90 on hot side


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I just took him out of the water and wiped him down and nothing came off of him. That water was freezing cold.


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Is this mites?


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90 hot spot or ambient ...?

i have 2 boas and I keep an 88 hot spot ambient side is mid 80s I keep a cool side temp of 76-77. My snakes often prefer the cool side with a warm up when needed. It’s been working well for me and really allowed them to full thermo regulate.

You need to het 2 hides in there. Preferably identical so the snake doesn’t choose

Look like black pigment to me.

Do tjey moce if you touch them? Did you run a damp paper towels over them as suggested above ?

Hot spot it stays right around 80 ambient


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Hot spot it stays right around 80 ambient


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Hot spot is 80 but hot side ambient is 90?
whatnare your heating elements. Are they controlled?

Something isn’t making sense with your numbers. Are you using a strong overhead heat source and then a heat mat set low ?

No you just didn’t read my sentence correct . English isn’t my strong suit. What I meant is. My ambient is 80 my hotspot is 90


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I've never have had mites, but I don't see anything in the picture that looks unusual.

What's the temps in the enclosure?

Males sometimes like it a little cooler.

I don't know if this will help Columbia low 43f with tomorrows high of 62f.

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I took his hide out cause it was really big and he hasn’t went into it once and I needed it for a new arrival and it was the only one that I had that was big enough for her to go in now I’m afraid to put it back in with him and it’s 80 degrees 90 on hot side


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I think he's in the water because he's too HOT??? 90* is too warm for boas, both "hot side" & ambient (80*) need to be several degrees lower.

Cannot tell if any mites from a still photo...mites move, they're tiny specks the size of the head of a pin, in black/brown/reddish color. I don't see any in photo, but that's
not a guarantee...good sign that none came off when wiped w/ damp cloth though.

It's stressful to take away their hides (& you wonder why he wouldn't eat?)...you should have just made a temporary hide for the newcomer from a cardboard box
or from a new cat-litter-box, or similar item. Many things can work.

Lol came home to Draco wearing a wig lmaohttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...325a30db8e.jpg


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