2018 0.1 Boa Constrictor Occidentalis, Argentine Boa, Progression

She's so cool mate
I love her pink saddles against the light grey, absolutely stunning [emoji7][emoji7][emoji7]

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After a night of exploring her new digs it seems she approves of her sky hide and has retired there for the daylight hours. Love it
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Seems to be developing a rhythm of sorts post feeding in the larger enclosure. He’s been found on her shelf the last two days during the warmest part of the heating schedule I have programmed. RHP hits its peak basking spot temp (~88°) from 11am-6pm ramping up to and down from the highest temp over a period of 3hrs.
Has been found in both her floor hides and other floor are, but no higher than the shelf since feeding.
Only thing she hasn’t used yet is the sky hide under the shelf. May guide her into it so she’s aware of it and see if that influences anything.
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Right after I temp gunned her at 88°

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Cruising the floor under her partial cork bark tube


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She's so cool[emoji7][emoji7], just stunning jmcrook

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Fresh shed, natural light outside on the porch, weighing in at 927grams. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...87f8a74a2e.jpg


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Wow! That pink is AMAZING! She looks fantastic in her new skin brother! You’re making me a little self conscious about my Argies weight now 😀. Our girls are right about the same age. My girl was born on 6/28/2018 so she’s almost 3. She weighed 1510g about 3 weeks ago. I’m feeding her a medium rat every 2-3 weeks. She doesn’t seem overweight at all. She is more round than BI but the BI is the heavier critter. He’s a year older and about 1800g. Are you feeding mostly smalls or mediums?

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Wow! That pink is AMAZING! She looks fantastic in her new skin brother! You’re making me a little self conscious about my Argies weight now ��. Our girls are right about the same age. My girl was born on 6/28/2018 so she’s almost 3. She weighed 1510g about 3 weeks ago. I’m feeding her a medium rat every 2-3 weeks. She doesn’t seem overweight at all. She is more round than BI but the BI is the heavier critter. He’s a year older and about 1800g. Are you feeding mostly smalls or mediums?

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Thank you, Ziggy! If anything I'm a bit self conscious about my girl's weight. I feed pretty sparingly and small meals. She's never had a medium rat in her life and has been taking smalls every 10-14-? days. That will change this summer, maybe sooner than planned. I don't really have a schedule per se. I set a frequency of 12 days in my SnakeKeeper app and use that as a rough guideline. Sometimes I add a week and sometimes I'll feed a couple days earlier.

They can definitely handle a bigger meal than they'd let you think and grow faster than other Boa species from what I can find on that subject. This is even mentioned in The MORE Complete Boa Constrictor about them growing large and more quickly than others.

She's most definitely rounder than my Pokigron Suriname boy. Your girl doesn't look overweight at all to me either, Zig. Like I've mentioned before, I think I'm just a bit gun shy about feeding frequency and size after feeding the holy bejeezus out of my retics a few years ago to combat their pushing issues. Feeling a bit more comfortable about letting the current critters feast through the summer and then dial it back and fast them through the winter.

Well, @El-Ziggy, safe to say I underestimated this girl. Just pounded a medium rat and while hard to tell from this angle, it doesn’t seem like an outrageous lump by any measure. [emoji41]
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That’s cool JMC. I didn’t think she’d have any problems with those mediums. You probably won’t see a bump at all in a couple of days.

Yeah, looked big until it was in her belly. The bump, and it’s hard to even call it that, is just before the last 1/3 of her that is coiled up.
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