Well, if he's got a "twisted view" of the world, too, we'll get along just fine...LOLOriginally Posted by Evenstar
That "S" curve look is really common with boas. Both of my babies do it all the time and it never means anything. Seems to be just how they look at the world, lol...
As far as feeding, you should never be too conservative just as you should never overfeed either. Just choose an appropriate sized rat or two and feed every 10-14 days. As he gets a bit older once every 2 weeks will be fine. And you can certainly keep him on rats. 1-2 large to jumbo sized rats should do him for the rest of his life. If you were to switch to rabbits, it could instigate a growth spurt. But the rats are fine.
He will grow as a big as nature intended if he's properly fed - but that does not mean he'll turn into an overgrown monster. At 5 years old and being a male, he really shouldn't get much bigger than he is now - he looks perfect.
I think he was getting 1 med. rat per week.
I can email his seller to be sure.
He has a 4x2x2 split level 'condo' now but I don't want him to wind up like the huge male I mentioned.
It lives in a 3x3 display case and is so big around, it just lays there, curled up, doing nothing...most likely because there's not enough room to do anything.
I don't think nature intended for them to be immobile and I suspect it's not an especially happy or healthy life.
Actually, my eventual plans are to clean out one of the spare bedrooms upstairs, turn it into my permanent "snake room" and make both Boas large, built-in wall habitats that are 12' x 3' x 8'.
I just haven't figured out the heating/humidifying details for the wall units, yet.....:-\
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