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I'd say either mouse hoppers or mouse fuzzies, some boas are born very small and hoppers may be too big. I start all my boas on mice until they can take weaned rats, the mice are more fully formed and a boa can take a non-nursing rodent much quicker on mice vs rats. My boas are normally taking hoppers up until they're 9-11 months old, and then are on weaned rats by about 1.5-2 years old. From there, I might see one prey size increase per year, and then I stop at large rats. No jumbo mice, jumbo rats, pinky mice/rats, Guinea pigs, pigs, or hamsters, due to fat content. If my boas outgrow large rats, I either jump to 1 lb rabbits, or feed a jumbo every third feeding (so large-large then jumbo). My biggest is 7', so none of my boas are eating anything bigger than regular larges (150-275 grams) yet.
I also start my boas on 10-14 days from birth. The first 1-3 meals can be spaced out by 7 days, but I prefer to feed my boas a little less often. I have noticed similar growth in my boas fed half as often as other keeper's boas fed every 7 days (when fed similar-sized meals as I do).
8.3 Boa imperator ('15 sunglow "Nymeria," '11 normal "Cloud," '16 anery motley "Crona," '10 ghost "Howl," '08 jungle "Dominika," '22 RC pastel hypo jungle "Aleister," '22 pastel normal "Gengar," '22 orangasm hypo "Daemon," '22 poss jungle "Jinzo," '22 poss jungle "Calcifer," '22 motley "Guin")
1.4 Boa imperator; unnamed '22 hbs
3.3 Plains garter snakes
1.2 checkered garter snakes (unnamed)
~RIP~
2.2 Brazilian rainbow boa ('15 Picasso stripe BRBs "Guin" and "Morzan, and '15 hypo "Homura", '14 normal "Sanji")
1.0 garter snake ('13 albino checkered "Draco")
1.0 eastern garter ('13 "Demigod)
0.0.1 ball python ('06 "Bud")
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