Quote Originally Posted by Sauzo View Post
Boas can take weeks to digest a meal especially a large rat for such a small snake.

Time it takes to swallow a meal means nothing. My suriname swallows her hopper mice in about 1-2 mins as well as all my other snakes except my retic who takes probably a couple mins longer but he eats XL guinea pigs.

All snakes are hungry. My boas are all coiled up ready for another meal after they finish the first. Doesnt mean they need it or its good for them.

And growth. Well you are piling food into him, of course he is going to grow. The problem is his organs are not designed to grow that fast so there is enormous stress being put on them. Imagine you working at 110% 24/7 for 10 years. Something would eventually give out.
My BCI who is 16 months old and 4,75 feet long digests a large rat and poop it out in about 10 days.
If it takes 1-2 minutes for your snakes to swallow their meals, to me this is an indication that the meal is small.
You said piling food into my BCI, i wouldn,t describe it this way. I would say that i,m not keeping him hungry like in the case of your snakes.
As i said and i will say it again, impossible now to reverse things and give him small rats in order to avoid feeding him multible prey items per feeding. The best thing i could do is to reduce the size a bit and space it up as much as i can.