Feliz - Venezuelan "Dwarf" BCC

[dakski]

Feliz is doing great and weighed in, dry, today at 145G.

He's looking good and calm as anything. We had a little bonding time this morning.

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[richardhind1972]

Feliz is looking great Dave . I really love his light gold clean saddles against the darker brown sections , really great tash too and not noticed his eyelashes and eyebrows till these pics

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[dakski]

Feliz is doing great. He just ate another small mouse on Sunday and dropped another butt bomb last night.

He's curious, but calm and docile, as ever and seems to enjoy being out and exploring.

I posted a thread wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Feliz Navidad with pictures of Feliz. He's looking great.

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...19#post2665419

[dakski]

Feliz moved into his life home, a Boaphile 4X2X1', 3 days ago, and slammed a F/T mouse last night. He seems to be doing great in there.

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...44#post2667144

He weighed in at 165G before his mouse yesterday.

[dakski]

Feliz is loving his Boaphile tank...and always looking for food, .

[cletus]

He's looking good!

[richardhind1972]

He's looking great Dave

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[dakski]

On my last order from Perfect Prey, I ordered 1 pack of small mice and two packs of hoppers, not the other way around.

I didn't want to open the small pack of small mice just for Feliz because he's almost to adult mice or Rat Pups and is eating the same food size as Yafe, who's eating Rat Fuzzy's, and I want to keep them fresh for Solana who's currently on mouse hoppers. I decided to offer him a rat fuzzy tonight.

WOW! He's never had a rat anything. I thought I might have do some extra wiggling, etc. NO! I shook for a millisecond, he honed in on it, went into strike mode, and was on it and coiled in under two seconds. I've never seen him strike so fast or so hard. He nailed it with such vigor! WOW! He also gobbled it down with no issues! I don't think he's going to have an issue with rats! Not that Boas tend to have an issue with any food item, .

Anyway, he took it down like a champ and seemed happy as can be.

Here is a picture of the coil and of the rat fuzzy 1/3 of the way down. Don't mind Figment in the tank below; he just finished an adult mouse himself.

[richardhind1972]

That's good then, I think the rats smell stronger than the mice even to us so should be even stronger rodent smell to them

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[dakski]

That's good then, I think the rats smell stronger than the mice even to us so should be even stronger rodent smell to them

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Good point from a Boa perspective.

Remember though, Rich, I am "new" to Boas. In the world of Pythons, many have difficulty switching from mice to rats as they imprint on one prey item.