Temperature gradient and heat sources: the never-ending headache!

[bcr229]

I am totally of the less is more School of thought in terms of feeding; my only reservation is that at two years old he still has a bit of growing to do before he hits his adult size and while I certainly don't want to power feed him to grow him faster I don't want to stunt him either. I think you and I may have actually had this discussion on one of my previous posts? For the time being I have him on a 14 day feeding schedule on the smallest small rats I can find. I figure when he's three I will really start spacing out the meals leting him poop and get a little hungry. - unless you think that would be really bad!

When feeding boas less is more, their metabolisms are slower than pythons. You can also kill them at a young age by over-feeding. Once mine hit two years old I like to give an appropriate-sized feeder, usually a rat or young rabbit that leaves almost no discernible lump - every three weeks.