Quote Originally Posted by Sauzo View Post
Feed in the cage. Your boa isnt eating probably because its scared when you remove it. Boas are not known to be picky eaters. They eat all sorts of stuff in the wild so a couple pieces of aspen or whatever wont hurt. If you are worried like i usually am with the small ones, just use a sheet of printer paper or a piece of newspaper or cardboard and lay that down before you offer them food.

Also an adult mouse for a 2 month old boa seems pretty large. All my boas when they were under a year old ate hopper mice. They dont graduate to adult mice until they are usually about 1.5 years old or so. If he is eating adult mice, i would push the feeding out to every 10-14 days. I feed anything on hoppers every 7 days. So up to 1 year old, every 7 days. 1-2 years old, every 10-14 days, 3+ years old, every 3-5 weeks. Size wise it would be hopper every 7 days, adult mice/weaned/small rats every 10-14 days with more days added for bigger sizes, medium rats and bigger, every 3-5 weeks with more days added for bigger sizes.
To be honest i have never fed any of my snakes including my BCI anything less than an adult mice, even when my BCI was a month old. I feed live and its not allowed where i live to sell mice or rats if they are not weaned. So when my BCI was a month or two old, i used to buy for him the smallest adult mouce that i could find. I,m not contradicting what you are saying, just sharing a different experience