Boas will NOT eat as much as you give them

[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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[PitOnTheProwl]

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

Its because you are over feeding........
Over feeding causes more health problems and shortens their life.
Most of us have fat pets because its human nature to give them everything they want, then again most do it with their children too.

[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

[Sunnieskys]

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

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[Dutti]

What type of language is this? You can,t discuss things without loosing your mind? What,s wrong in saying you can,t overfeed a ball python? i meant if you do that, ball python will stop eating. Nothing more. I have never claimed to know everything. I said i am a beginner. Yes i could be absolutely wrong. I did not claim to be right. Do not worry, i care for my animals more than others care for their kids.

[Sauzo]

What type of language is this? You can,t discuss things without loosing your mind? What,s wrong in saying you can,t overfeed a ball python? i meant if you do that, ball python will stop eating. Nothing more. I have never claimed to know everything. I said i am a beginner. Yes i could be absolutely wrong. I did not claim to be right. Do not worry, i care for my animals more than others care for their kids.

Lol i understand her/his frustration as you make statements that are knowingly wrong or ask questions, then when you get the correct answer but it is one you dont want to hear or agree with, you say its wrong. And all this even though you claim you are a beginner.

I dont think any of us are claiming to be experts including myself but a lot of use who are answering the questions or correcting the statements have had lot of experience with reptiles and we are trying to educate you just like we once were all beginners and had the previous generation aid us in learning.

The problem is you dont want to learn or listen. Like i've said before, i'm not sure who stupider, us for pounding our heads against the wall trying to educate you or you for not listening and learning. Either that, or you are a professional troll and we all have eggs on our face haha.

Not to seem cold but i personally dont care what or how you care for your reptiles. It really affects me in no way whether your snakes die or live. I mostly just dont want people spreading incorrect info to people who actually are trying to learn and do want to do right by their pets and offer them the best long life they can.

And you do not care for your animals more than some people care for their kids. If you did, you would assure they got the proper amount of food to give them a nice long and healthy life. What you are doing to your pets equates to a parent letting their kid eat candy all day and then skip dinner and eat more junk food before bed. Sure, you think you are doing good but in reality, you are killing your pets with love.

[PythonBabes]

Absolutely love how you claim multiple times, ' oh im not an expert, no way', 'im just a beginner', but disregard advice from people with years and years of experience.
It's not even funny anymore...it would be hilarious if animals weren't being endangered.

And I'm sorry because I said I wouldn't even comment here anymore but Sauzo, you're a real trooper! Definitely don't let people like this cretin stop you from educating!

[Sauzo]

Absolutely love how you claim multiple times, ' oh im not an expert, no way', 'im just a beginner', but disregard advice from people with years and years of experience.
It's not even funny anymore...it would be hilarious if animals weren't being endangered.

And I'm sorry because I said I wouldn't even comment here anymore but Sauzo, you're a real trooper! Definitely don't let people like this cretin stop you from educating!

Lol thanks. This is actually fairly tame compared to dealing with some real gems of knowledge on FB haha. You run into people there where you seriously have to step back and wonder how they made it to adulthood much less how they are able to care for another life lol. Maybe one day it will sink in, who knows. Hopefully it does before it takes a premature death of one or more of his animals to slap him in the face with reality.

Oh and Dutti, i will pass one more gem of knowledge onto you. Not only does feeding very large prey often cause obesity and constipation but it can also cause a prolapse which if you have to deal with one of those, you are in for a nice vet bill if you are lucky and the vet can gently push it back in and put in a stitch to keep it from popping back out until it heals.