How often should I be feeding a 2 1/2 year old red tail?

[Gio]

But if you actually talk to Gus about that care sheet, he'll tell you 2 things. First, it needs to be updated with the current thinking and proven statistics and also it was written with adult boas in mind, not babies. I wish he was more specific about the babies since that's where most people start with new boas....

But I agree with you - Gus is one of the most respected folks in the boa community. So is Vince Russo, from whom I also had the opportunity to learn a lot.

I think Gus and Vin are best friends or if not very close friends.

Jonathan Brady of Deviant Constrictors also has some good info in his blogs about feeding, and type of prey. http://www.deviantconstrictors.com/b...r-my-boas.html

There is also a great post by Gus on Redtailboa.net that explains proper feeding and size. Longer living boas are the biggest he says.

The message was power feeding makes them big fast but they die early and never reach their true potential size.

Lean, muscular and long snakes are the goal.

I think the idea of conservative feeding is the best approach and agree Gus is in need of a little update on his web page. I think he does it all himself and that can be hard to do when making the snakes the main priority. It's still one of, if not my favorite boa page.

Apologies I did not know we were talking about baby boas here I was thinking a mature snake.