Quote Originally Posted by CloudtheBoa View Post
At one point River grew 1.5' in a matter of 2-3 weeks. That was when she was eating two medium rats since I didn't have any larges on hand, and one or two meals later she was on jumbos. Grew faster on two mediums than she did on rabbits twice the size she's getting now.



Yep they settle in quickly, and the few times River has gotten defensive with me, she's flattened her head out like a ratsnake and tensed up. Obviously her head is a bit meatier than a ratsnake's, so it just looks like a flattened marshmallow. haha The worst reaction was lifting the front half of her body and moving sideways with her head in the air, head flattened, and puffed up with air, striking if I moved. No hissing, and she quickly calmed down. Her teeth aren't too bad, but that was when she was 4' and under, I'd put the bite under a BRB of similar size.

Although they give you warnings, they are much easier to spook than other snakes, she did this because I left her alone too long outside without touching her. I gotta maintain contact at all times if I let her roam on her own, and had a few other retic/Burm keepers say the same things. With my other snakes, I can let them roam on their own as long as I want without them getting too upset by it (excluding the garters because I'd never see them again). The other time I remember was because I popped the lid off her weighing container. The vibrations scared her, but it was just a quick nip and over with.

Also yesss Sauzo, I need to get a Herpstat 6, but after spending 2 grand on my breeding pair of boas altogether, I'll have to wait to get one for a couple paychecks. I'd love to have all/most of my collection of pulse-proportional and dimming.
Dang, that's some serious growth lol. I'm used to my boas who grow about as fast as paint dries lol. My BP grew pretty darn fast though. She went from about 12" or so to about 3.5' in a year. So maybe i'm not seeing things. Maybe Caesar really has grown lol. He sure does love to eat. He's been getting a rat every 4 days and he seems to like it lol.

And yeah Caesar actually took a shot at me when he was in shed last night. he was cool with me messing with 2 times but the third time I tried to take him out to clean inside his cool hide he was in, he got mad. Yeah I kind of overspent myself too which is why i'm going to have to wait a couple months for the Herpstat 6. Plus i'll need to drop another $1200 buck around then for 3 more AP T10s. And then i'm going to see if I can do some fancy footwork and score me a SD/D Platinum Tiger or a Motley Tiger but i'm not holding my breath on that haha.