Quote Originally Posted by Niki_Fang View Post
will keep that in consideration. I've never tried feeding it their cages because i've been told not to for so long. I try to offer him food twice a week when i feed everyone else
The whole separate feeding tub is the biggest myth in the hobby. One could easily argue the snake will "think" its going to feed every time you remove it from the enclosure, or every time you open the door to the enclosure to move it. It's simply not true. You can hook train the snake to figure out when it time to eat and when it's time to be handled.

Keepers of the really large snakes don't pull the snake out to feed it. They feed in the enclosure and use some simple methods for alerting the snake that it is time to be handled.

The most important thing is NOT to smell like prey or behave like prey.

As already stated a snake of that size could be stressed by constant movement into another area to feed. Feed it where it is comfortable.

Also, although nobody advises live is better, in your case you may want to try it, but first let the snake settle.

Evenstar will tell you it's almost impossible to underfeed a boa. So don't be overly worried just yet.

The only reason I'd ever feed in a separate tub is to avoid ingestion of substrate and even that is easily solved by putting down some newspaper prior to feeding.

You may have to try a live feeding as it is often the case with very young boas. After a short time they convert to F/T pretty fast.

Good luck!