Boas will NOT eat as much as you give them

[Sauzo]

You can,t overfeed a ball python. I got my male BP just a month before i got my BCI. He was 3 years old. I was totally a beginner when i got him and i did overfeed him. As a result he stopped eating 8 months and started after that to eat again. I am beginning to believe that you can,t overfeed any snake in normal ways. My dumerils boa ate last time before 3 weeks. I offered him a rat yesterday and he does not want to eat. I guess his body does not require food now and he knows it. My BCI showed no interest in that rat again. So i,m going to give him a two weeks pause before i feed him again. So they know if their bodies require food or not

Or.....you are giving them so much food, they simply dont want it lol. BPs, i can understand although Dottie hasnt quit eating for the winter yet and just ate a medium rat last night.

As for your BCI and dumerils, not sure why yours quit refused food(actually i do, you overfeed) but my dumerils and all my BCIs never refuse a meal. Everyone actually ate last night. And met me tell you, it was an exciting night as i almost got tagged by Caesar as he came flying out for his guinea pig and the baby boas shot out like bullets.

And basically your boa and dumerils are probably trying to save their own lives as they know you are trying to kill them with too much food.

And now you have a dumerils AND a BP? You said in your post earlier, when you got your boa, you had no knowledge of snake care and that was 18 months ago assuming you got the boa when it was born which you said you did. So in that 18 months of research, you didnt see any correlation between dumerils care sheets and BCI care sheets both stating you shouldnt feed either snake lots of food? And you didnt find a common denominator among all the research that boas and dumerils dont need to be stuffed like Thanksgiving turkeys?

I think i also read somewhere you said you had a GTP? What is going to be the next surprise you pull out lol? With that many snakes, i am floored you still havent figured out the proper care for them....

[Dutti]

Or.....you are giving them so much food, they simply dont want it lol. BPs, i can understand although Dottie hasnt quit eating for the winter yet and just ate a medium rat last night.

As for your BCI and dumerils, not sure why yours quit refused food(actually i do, you overfeed) but my dumerils and all my BCIs never refuse a meal. Everyone actually ate last night. And met me tell you, it was an exciting night as i almost got tagged by Caesar as he came flying out for his guinea pig and the baby boas shot out like bullets.

And basically your boa and dumerils are probably trying to save their own lives as they know you are trying to kill them with too much food.

And now you have a dumerils AND a BP? You said in your post earlier, when you got your boa, you had no knowledge of snake care and that was 18 months ago assuming you got the boa when it was born which you said you did. So in that 18 months of research, you didnt see any correlation between dumerils care sheets and BCI care sheets both stating you shouldnt feed either snake lots of food? And you didnt find a common denominator among all the research that boas and dumerils dont need to be stuffed like Thanksgiving turkeys?

I think i also read somewhere you said you had a GTP? What is going to be the next surprise you pull out lol? With that many snakes, i am floored you still havent figured out the proper care for them....

My ATB won,t refuse a meal even if i overfed him. Such a wonderful snake. I have to be careful with his feeding as he is a great eater. He is 14 months old and eating large mice. I have learned my lesson with my BP when he stopped 8 months eating. I feed him now small rats. Regarding my Dumerils, i really don,t have to be careful with his feeding. If he is not hungry he will just refuse. I can,t overfeed him. And my BCI refused food this time, so i will give him 2 weeks pause. My GTP will eat one large mouce every 9 to 10 days. That,s more than enough for him as he does not move much.

[Sauzo]

My ATB won,t refuse a meal even if i overfed him. Such a wonderful snake. I have to be careful with his feeding as he is a great eater. He is 14 months old and eating large mice. I have learned my lesson with my BP when he stopped 8 months eating. I feed him now small rats. Regarding my Dumerils, i really don,t have to be careful with his feeding. If he is not hungry he will just refuse. I can,t overfeed him. And my BCI refused food this time, so i will give him 2 weeks pause. My GTP will eat one large mouce every 9 to 10 days. That,s more than enough for him as he does not move much.

Now you got an ATB too!!?? So you have 5 snakes and still havent researched enough to know proper feeding or simply dont want to believe experienced people or the decades worth of collective experience from people and think 'you cant overfeed any snake'. You seriously just got to be trolling as no one can be this ignorant with this many snakes lol. It's just not possible haha

[Dutti]

Now you got an ATB too!!?? So you have 5 snakes and still havent researched enough to know proper feeding or simply dont want to believe experienced people or the decades worth of collective experience from people and think 'you cant overfeed any snake'. You seriously just got to be trolling as no one can be this ignorant with this many snakes lol. It's just not possible haha

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[C.Marie]

Now you got an ATB too!!?? So you have 5 snakes and still havent researched enough to know proper feeding or simply dont want to believe experienced people or the decades worth of collective experience from people and think 'you cant overfeed any snake'. You seriously just got to be trolling as no one can be this ignorant with this many snakes lol. It's just not possible haha

Never underestimate the human ability of ignorance it will astound you what a lot of money and a little brain will justify I for one would be kissing your feet if I was recklessly endangering the welfare of a beloved noodle I love your words of wisdom always helpful and witty never change

[Sauzo]

Never underestimate the human ability of ignorance it will astound you what a lot of money and a little brain will justify I for one would be kissing your feet if I was recklessly endangering the welfare of a beloved noodle I love your words of wisdom always helpful and witty never change

Oh trust me, i have many a stupid errors raising reptiles and amphibians when i was younger and also as a kid. I used to feed my BPs all the time, keep them in glass tanks with screen tops and heat lamps etc. Surprisingly though, my BPs lived 10 years before i ended up rehoming them as i was a young and not that stable in living lol. They had bad sheds but i would just run them through wet wash towels and it was fine.

I also had a Nile Monitor and Savannah monitors and iguanas and all sorts of other lizards as well amphibians like fire belly newts, tiger salamanders, fire bellied toads, pacman frogs and other stuff. Back when i was a kid, there really wasnt all the stuff you find now and there was no t-stats etc. Basically for large snakes likes retics and burms, you used 2x2 studs to make a cage frame, then nail 3/4 inch plywood sheets to the frame. Then cut out rectangles in the top sides of the cage and stapled screen for vents. the you used 2x2 with sheet plywood and hinges to make a swing open lid and cut out circles and screened them for heat lamps to sit in. Then you painted the whole interior with waterproof paint and used 1x1 to frame in glass for the front.

It was the dark ages but surprising the reptiles lived and actually bred lol. What really got me into big snakes was going to a place called Pets and Things which is where i bought my monitors from and my Nile was actually hatched there. The owner, Bob had 2 large burms and like 3 retics. After seeing them, i immediately fell in love with large constrictors and more or less shifted from lizards like monitors and iguanas to constrictors lol. That was 30+ years ago. I'm so old now