Behira - 2016 Female Ivory Ghost - First BCI

Katie snapped some shots of me with Behira hanging on my arm. She's incredibly strong. It's hard to tell from the picture, but she's wrapped around my arm and hanging down free.

Boa's are semi-arboreal. I think Behira is Semi-Arm Boreal!!!!!!!!!!

All kidding aside, pretty soon, she'll be too big and heavy for me to hold her up like this!

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Behira seems to get bigger every time I take her out. She's also been in her "light phase" the past 2-3 times I've had her out. For a while, she was dark 3/4 times I took her out, mostly in the evening.

She seems to be getting much longer, but I am waiting for her to thicken up a bit. My first Boa, so I am not sure how all that works, but she sure eats like a champ and is definitely putting on weight. She weighs 1,110G dry now.

Pictures below. When she hangs from my neck, I cannot seem to get her whole body in a selfie anymore! She also takes up much of Katie when Katie's sitting on the couch.

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Looking really good as usual

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For contrast, Behira in a more "dark phase".

She is due to eat another medium rat on Sunday night (2 days).

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Makes you wonder where the speckles hide or how they come and go, it really fascinates me to way boas do this .

Have you noticed wether the medium rat has filled her long enough? Or was she expecting her food a week ago the same as her small rat, mine was still expecting more food when I increased there prey size.

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The rat seemed to fill her okay.

She's been looking/hunting the past few nights, but isn't showing any signs of being overly hungry. She's actually been pretty chill when I take her out. I use the hook every time, but I haven't had to get her out of strike position or anything.

I am sure she will nail her rat on Sunday. LOL.

Behira hadn't eaten in three weeks, per new schedule of a medium rat every 3 weeks, versus a small every 2 weeks. Her first medium was 3 weeks ago and it was 115G and went down okay. Today I offered a little smaller medium rat at 105G.

She did not hesitate! Struck, coiled, and down the hatch!

She will adjust to the new 3 week schedule and hasn't shown any more food drive than normal. She out looking for the past week, at least, but was pretty chill about it. I think she will be fine.

Got a pretty good strike today. Got the body and not just the tail, and also didn't bite herself. She's doing better!

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B is lookin' good D! Glad to see she's still eating well. I'd say feeding my boas has been the biggest difference between them and my other snakes. Not because the boas don't eat, they ALWAYS do, but just getting used to their less frequent feedings. My pythons and colubrids ate almost twice as often when they were younger.

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B is lookin' good D! Glad to see she's still eating well. I'd say feeding my boas has been the biggest difference between them and my other snakes. Not because the boas don't eat, they ALWAYS do, but just getting used to their less frequent feedings. My pythons and colubrids ate almost twice as often when they were younger.

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I know, it's adjustment for me, as well as Behira, LOL.

I am fully aware she will not be full grown for another 3-4 years easy. I am okay with that. Happy and healthy is priority number 1.

Thanks as always El-Ziggy!

Just because I got a new snake (Yafe), does not mean I will not spend the necessary time with the rest of my crew. I spent my usual 10-20 minutes going through tanks and cleaning, etc. Then I took Shayna and Behira out (Frank was a little pissy today - turned out he had to poop - and Figment is about to shed and Solana is going into shed).

In fact I've been jonesing to take Behira out. She ate a medium rat on Sunday night, and being a bigger meal, left her alone until today (3 days versus the usual 2).

She is full, happy, and sleepy. I took her out and put her on my lap. One minute later; zzzzzzzzzz. Fast asleep on my lap for 20 minutes. I took some pictures and then gently woke her up and put her back.

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