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    Interesting feeding.

    This is definitely a first for me, I believe what happened is she didnt get a good bite on the mouse and couldn't coil around it anyways just thought i would share her insane feeding response. One other thing i am wondering is as it's my first red tail is her growth. I've noticed she has grown a lot in length but I haven't noticed any change in girth I'm feeding her one adult mouse every 7 days and I'm not sure exactly how old she is either.

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    Loved the narration, really sells the action. That was crazy.

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    Yeah that was pretty wild.

    About the prey size the picture isn't the clearest but it looked okay.

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    Re: Interesting feeding.

    That was bananas!
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    Re: Interesting feeding.

    Nice. Love Boa food response. Beasts!

    A quick word of advice. Start using tongs/hemostats.

    I would want to avoid an adult bite from her. Secondly, you do not want her seeing your hand and thinking food.

    I would also hook train, to further disassociate your hand with food and snap her out of food drive when you want to pick her up.

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    Re: Interesting feeding.

    Boas are generally such good feeders by even bother having them strike feeding ?

    I drop feed my Boas / Retics / Burms ... just drop the rat down on a piece of card ...




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    Re: Interesting feeding.

    Quote Originally Posted by Zincubus View Post
    Boas are generally such good feeders by even bother having them strike feeding ?

    I drop feed my Boas / Retics / Burms ... just drop the rat down on a piece of card ...




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    I hear you Zincubus. Good idea.

    However, this is difficult with Behira (BCI). It works well for my corn snakes, but not so well with her.

    First, she tends to strike the acrylic doors in anticipation of the rat. I want her to strike the rat and not the doors, so I get it in as quickly as possible. She's usually on it quick too.

    Secondly, if I put it down, she smells it and goes ape - striking at anything. I would rather get her to strike the rat and know she's not going to damage herself!

    However, she's an odd duck. I would love to put it down and let her grab it, but I have to choose the lesser of the evils. That means tong feeding for me. Oh, boy! It will be fun when she's a big girl!

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    Re: Interesting feeding.

    Quote Originally Posted by Zincubus View Post
    Boas are generally such good feeders by even bother having them strike feeding ?
    I like the extra bit of exercise/adrenaline it gives them (feeding f/t on tongs), plus most are so ready to go, it'll happen regardless. If they miss the first strike, I just drop it in for them to find, I don't actively make them have to strike and wrap.
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    Re: Interesting feeding.

    Quote Originally Posted by BallPytho View Post
    This is definitely a first for me, I believe what happened is she didnt get a good bite on the mouse and couldn't coil around it anyways just thought i would share her insane feeding response. One other thing i am wondering is as it's my first red tail is her growth. I've noticed she has grown a lot in length but I haven't noticed any change in girth I'm feeding her one adult mouse every 7 days and I'm not sure exactly how old she is either.
    I assume it was fully thawed out? it seemed rather stiff. Probably just the way she grabbed it. I also suggest getting some tongs to avoid a mis-strike hand bite in the future. You could probably switch that boa to rat pups.
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