What Do You Feed Your Adults

[MasonC2K]

Didn't know that about the GP's. I see people feeding them all the time so I thought it was normal. Good to know cause we had SP's as pets once and that would feel kind of weird to do that.

[JoeNapoli]

Just wondering if there's a perfect prey item for Red Tail Boas, what's their most common prey in the wild that they evolved on over thousands of years? Like toads for Eastern Hognose, African Rats for Ball Pythons, etc.

[AbsoluteApril]

Good point about guinea pigs! Those are not good for boas as mentioned. I do feed XL rats but nothing bigger than that due to fat content.

In the wild, they primarily eat rodents. There is quite a large variety of rodents in South America.

[Sauzo]

They eat howler monkies too. https://www.livescience.com/39172-bo...er-monkey.html

[Gio]

If your boa is a locality, check the area that it comes from.

The island species often rely heavily on migrant populations of birds. Avian prey is more than likely taken during those periods. You can find excellent photos and videos of certain boa species, not necessarily or always boa constrictors, take bats.

Boa constrictors will eat iguana and native squirrels plus a host of other prey. Wild prey is active and lean. Not like our fat captive raised prey.

The list is long and probably varies depending on many factors.

In captivity, variety is good. Quail, rats, and rabbits are good choices.

There are some very long lived, healthy boas in the hobby. If you see somebody with a boa they raised up from a baby to over 20 years or more, you may want to pay attention to their practices!

[JoeNapoli]

They eat howler monkies too. https://www.livescience.com/39172-bo...er-monkey.html

awesome link/pics! that has to be an XL boa to be chomping ~13 pound monkey... I'm doing the math and figuring if that's 20% of her bodyweight we are talking a 65 pound boa... up in a tree!

"without moving for more than a month" then 76 minutes of constricting - I love this primal jungle stuff; makes me wanna get 1

[JoeNapoli]

and supposedly only 6'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMPNZq09gEo

that's not even 1/2 of the max size... .. .

[Ogre]

I generally go with rats, I occasionally will feed chicks when the farm store orders too many and I can get them for 50¢ because of pecking. I just raise them until they're at the weight I want and then co2 and freeze.

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