Feliz - Venezuelan "Dwarf" BCC

[dakski]

I offered Feliz food tonight (he arrived one week ago and it was feeding night for everyone else except Figment and Yafe, who is not quite ready to eat yet). He had been eating stunned mice with the breeder and never frozen/thawed (F/T). However, he's a boa, and I've easily switched young BP's from live (running around the tank live), so I really wasn't worried at all.

Well, he happily ate a F/T mouse hopper. No issues going to F/T whatsoever.

Kind of funny actually. I shook the mouse in front of his hide for a bit, but he prefers the spot on the hide further from the door. After shaking for a minute, I decided to put the hopper down with its head in the doorway and see if he came to investigate. I figured, if he did, I could pick it up and shake and get him to strike.

Well, that was not necessary. 2 minutes later, he stuck his head out sniffing, nudging, and tasting the mouse. One minute later, it was in his mouth. Goofball grabbed it by the middle though and after about 5 minutes of gnawing on it, he bent the head under on the floor of the tank and swallowed the head with the midsection! Good thing it was a rather small meal for him (10G - I think he could eat a 12-14G weaned mouse pretty easy, but I'll keep it hoppers for at least the first few feedings). Once the head and neck/midsection area was down, the rest was smooth sailing.

I should add that he looks like he might be starting to go into "blue" as well. Difficult to tell with limited light (I feed with tank lights out and minimal room light - just enough to see the snakes and not get bit ). I think he's going to be a great eater.

Picture below of last bit of hopper going down.

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