My Dumerils Boas

[Sauzo]

That's so interesting your dumeril's are all apprehensive towards food! Mine just bites the head and doesn't wrap, maybe sometimes throws one loose coil over the rat and then starts eating. But she has never been scared of anything really. I got her when she was 2 years old and about 3.5 feet.

Well, Luna isnt scared of her mice. She goes gung ho for those and grabs them and does the same thing as yours, she just grabs the head and starts to eat. It's the rats that get her all bent out of shape literally. If i rub it with the dead mouse and lay them together, the 'need' for food outweighs her need to safety and she eats them both haha.

[redshepherd]

Well, Luna isnt scared of her mice. She goes gung ho for those and grabs them and does the same thing as yours, she just grabs the head and starts to eat. It's the rats that get her all bent out of shape literally. If i rub it with the dead mouse and lay them together, the 'need' for food outweighs her need to safety and she eats them both haha.

Oh right, that's so funny LOL. I remember you saying that awhile ago like ever since you got Luna!

[Reptilius]

@ Dutti, a quick question. Is your baby a pure Dumeril.

I ask because pure Dumerils rarely exceed 6 - 6,5 feet in length, and typically take about 4 years to get there.
Crosses between Dumerils and their Ground Boa cousins, exceed 7 feet. And growth is far more rapid than in the pure species.
This is just a thought that crossed my mind.

Power Feeding is not healthy at all.

[DLena]

My pure Dumerils female is almost 7.5 feet. Trixie’s a total sweetheart.

[Dutti]

@ Dutti, a quick question. Is your baby a pure Dumeril.

I ask because pure Dumerils rarely exceed 6 - 6,5 feet in length, and typically take about 4 years to get there.
Crosses between Dumerils and their Ground Boa cousins, exceed 7 feet. And growth is far more rapid than in the pure species.
This is just a thought that crossed my mind.

Power Feeding is not healthy at all.

Yes he is pure Dumeril. I am not powerfeeding him. The last time he ate was on the 16th of November. Today i brought him a rat and he refused to eat. I can,t force him to eat

[redshepherd]

Yes he is pure Dumeril. I am not powerfeeding him. The last time he ate was on the 16th of November. Today i brought him a rat and he refused to eat. I can,t force him to eat

If he ate an oversized meal on only the 16th of November, he doesn't need to eat within a month of the last feed, at the least. That is why he is refusing to eat.

[Dutti]

If he ate an oversized meal on only the 16th of November, he doesn't need to eat within a month of the last feed, at the least. That is why he is refusing to eat.

He ate a live medium rat. It was not a big medium rather a small medium. I did not begin yet to weigh the rats that i feed to him like i do with my BCI. I will start doing that from now on

[Reptilius]

I also do not weigh the rats that I feed to my Dumerils.
I feed them every second weekend, and that is what we call a jumbo rat, I will weigh one the next time I feed.

My feeding cycle is as follows, 1 x Jumbo Rat every 14 days for 3 feeding schedules, then no feed for 21 days, then start the 3 feed schedule again.
I hope what I wrote makes sense.

[Reptilius]

For the first time ever that I have seen, my male Dumeril did this standing up coil on a rat.
He constricts so hard, that he not only made the rat bleed, but I thought its eyes were going to pop out.

The picture is pretty graphic, my apologies, the intention of the pic is to show off the coil.