2018 0.1 Boa Constrictor Occidentalis, Argentine Boa, Progression

[Kam]

Looking great as always.


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[Reinz]

I am just so blown away every time I see a pic of Mira Belle I just don’t have the words to describe her beauty. You have a special one there for sure JM.

[richardhind1972]

She really is outstanding, that colour is just amazing

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[jmcrook]

Been stalking the floor with pupils the size of a nickel for a week. Sorry gal, kitchen is closed for the winter...



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[EL-Ziggy]

You’re doing a GREAT job with your critters Crook. They all look AMAZING!! I haven’t totally shut the kitchen down but everybody’s getting reduced rations for the next few months. Smaller meals and fewer of them.

[jmcrook]

You’re doing a GREAT job with your critters Crook. They all look AMAZING!! I haven’t totally shut the kitchen down but everybody’s getting reduced rations for the next few months. Smaller meals and fewer of them.

Thanks, Ziggy! This is my first time intentionally fasting them through the winter and seeing them clearly looking for food makes me want to cave in. Suppose I could take your approach too, smaller and fewer meals with slightly lower temps. If anyone starts looking thin I’ll adjust my plans but ambient temps are scheduled to start dropping in a couple weeks and hot spots will be lower and not offered at night. Gotta get the Brisbanes accustomed to some fairly cool temps for breeding trials eventually, and maybe the Argentine someday as well.


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[EL-Ziggy]

Thanks, Ziggy! This is my first time intentionally fasting them through the winter and seeing them clearly looking for food makes me want to cave in. Suppose I could take your approach too, smaller and fewer meals with slightly lower temps. If anyone starts looking thin I’ll adjust my plans but ambient temps are scheduled to start dropping in a couple weeks and hot spots will be lower and not offered at night. Gotta get the Brisbanes accustomed to some fairly cool temps for breeding trials eventually, and maybe the Argentine someday as well.


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Most of my critters get super active about 10 days after eating because they’re usually fed roughly every 2 weeks. I just moved them to every 3 weeks. Then it’ll be every 4-6 weeks until March. No more jumbo rats for anybody. They’ll get one more large and then it’s all medium and small rats. I’ve gotta start dialing my temps back too. That’s where I get a little off track, especially in the cages with RHPs. Those guys are still basking at 86-88 F with ambient temps of 80F. So you drop your daytime temps and totally kill the heat at night. Where do you keep your daytime temps? My house gets down to 68-70 at night. It doesn’t seem to bother them and I know the Argie and Bredli can withstand even colder temps.

[jmcrook]

Most of my critters get super active about 10 days after eating because they’re usually fed roughly every 2 weeks. I just moved them to every 3 weeks. Then it’ll be every 4-6 weeks until March. No more jumbo rats for anybody. They’ll get one more large and then it’s all medium and small rats. I’ve gotta start dialing my temps back too. That’s where I get a little off track, especially in the cages with RHPs. Those guys are still basking at 86-88 F with ambient temps of 80F. So you drop your daytime temps and totally kill the heat at night. Where do you keep your daytime temps? My house gets down to 68-70 at night. It doesn’t seem to bother them and I know the Argie and Bredli can withstand even colder temps.

Good to know. It’s possible I’ll offer a small meal a month or so in but we’ll see.

Daytime ambient and hot spots are 77-80° and 86-88° or so. I have the snake room heated with an oil radiator so I’m only using RHP in one enclosure currently with heat tape for everything else.

Probably only drop the room ambient to low 70 give or take this winter. At that point I’ll have the RHPs as a safety net to ensure certain enclosures don’t dip below a certain temp. Brisbanes and the Argentine will be able to handle some pretty low temps but I don’t want the rockhampton below 70° and probably keep the Suriname mid-low 70s at the lowest. Royal Python will likely be kept at his year round temps and fed through the winter if he goes for it again this year.

Everything is on herpstats that can be programmed to kick on and off at set times over a ramping period. Need a higher quality stat for the room heater, may spring for a VE hi power stat though it requires a separate module for doing night drops and is out of stock. I only use the low setting on my heater which is 600watts. Could technically use a herpstat 1 for that (handles up to 700watts) and have day and night ambient temps set for the room to ramp up and down around sunrise and sunset.

I’m bit ocd/need control over these kinds of things and I think it will be an interesting learning experience to go through.


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[jmcrook]

“Sonuva... something’s gotta walk past this game trail eventually, right?!?” - Mirabelle

Hasn’t left her shelf or perch in nearly 3 weeks. Haven’t interacted with her at all in that time out of curiosity as to how long she’ll stay up there.

Sorry, kid. Kitchen is still closed til early next year...



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[Gio]

LOL

She's determined for sure!