Quote Originally Posted by Sauzo View Post
If you are feeding your 2' boa small rats, you are overfeeding him. My 2' Suriname girl gets around a 12g hopper mouse every 10 days and my 2' Peruvian Longtail gets the same, a 12g hopper mouse every 10 days. I don't go up to weaned rats until they are about 1.5 years old and over 3'.

It's next to impossible to starve a boa and boas are ALWAYS hungry. I can feed my 6.5' girl her large rat and the next day, she will still be hungry.

All of my boas perk up when I slide open a cage door. Once they realize food isn't coming, they lay down disappointed.

You want to feed it prey that will leave no lump or a very very slight lump in them. If they look like they ate a football after feeding, you are doing 100% wrong. Now my retic, he eats like a beast and gets 2XL guinea pigs or colossal rats but he's a python which is a whole different game than boas.
I fed my 15 month old male BCI (4.5 feet) XL live rat on the 24th of July and he went into shedding after that. He shed his skin on the 4th of August. Now its 10 days after he shed and he is not hungry, and if i offer him food he will definitely reject it. He has to poop first and 24 hours after that he will start feeling hungry again.