Quote Originally Posted by dakski View Post
Dianne,

Good to know BP's will often take several or more smaller prey items. My corns will do that happily, and I am sure my Boa would too. However, my BP is a shy eater, and usually goes and curls up after a meal. She's not exactly looking for more. However, she's always eaten appropriate sized prey for her and switched to rats super easy. So, I haven't had to test the theory. I appreciate the insight.

Secondly, you got off light!

Shayna (my BP), will, every once in a while, pull the rat into her hide, where she likes to eat, and then leave it there. The first time she did that, I didn't find it for two days! It was horrible! I give her two days to digest and leave her alone completely. Well, I used to. Now I check the next morning under all her hides to make sure it's in her belly!
Luckily for me, it was only about 24 hours from when I introduced the prey to finding it the next evening. I’ve also experienced the regurged rodent in a hidden spot after a couple of days. Ick.

My normal male will pretty often take seconds and thirds, especially if he’s coming off a fast. If one of my others refuse their mouse or rat, I’ll offer it to him and he takes it most of the time. My new pied ate 2 live pinkies last week (all I could get at the time), but took a chunky f/t fuzzy yesterday. My hoppers just came in, so those are the plan for next week. My lemonblast is still refusing to eat anything, got her 7/21 (same day as the pied), but I’ve ordered live fuzzies for her tomorrow. I’m really doubting she ate one meal like the seller stated. I knew she was a brand new hatchling going in, so I knew there was a risk of having a problem getting her started. Patience is key in this case.

The corns and redtail will eat as much as I feed them. lol. The only boa I’ve ever had that wasn’t a chow hound is my Solomon Island ground boa. He usually eats one mouse every two weeks, but every once in a while he’ll take two. They’re very small snakes though, so that isn’t a problem. Overfeeding them can really be a health risk, so he dictates what he wants.