Rosy Boa Care/ Setup (Brand New Member)

[NewmanLovesSnakes]

OK, keep in mind that this was some years back, & when that museum was started by the curator & her father, there was no such thing as "googling"... Once upon a
time, people just stuck a light over the screen top to heat a reptile cage. And some of them tried to feed insects to rodent-eating snakes too...etc.

To be honest, I never wanted to breed rosy boas, but that r.b. left me no choice. While in the museum, she surprised them once or twice by expelling a pile of slugs, but
when she came to my house ("the land of warmth & plentiful food"), she went one step further, & had not only a pile of slugs that first summer with me, but also one live
(parthenogenetic) baby. Sadly, "Longshot" was born with defects (bent neck, one eye, etc) & she only lived about 7 mos. before expiring from some unseen internal
defect. I was sad & didn't want the same thing to happen the next year (even more likely as the mom-rosy was bulking up nicely) so reluctantly I decided to give her a
mate, so at least she'd be more apt to have healthy viable offspring. She was not a young snake, & had very poor muscle tone from years of neglect, so that even with
ample food, it was very hard on her to push out slugs, whereas live babies ("neonates") push their own way out. To my surprise, she excelled at reproduction (the "TLC"
made all the difference) & then I wondered where the "off switch" was. It took five years of breeding before her inner biological voice said that was enough. She was
a wonderful rosy boa...that I was privileged to know & care for.

That’s so cool, I appreciate you sharing that story with me. She sounds like a wonderful snake, I’ve never seen a snake birth in person so I bet that was neat and it was nice having new baby snakes. I hope to get a nice one that healthy, I want to teach my two year old about snakes and warm my wife up to them. My son thinks they are neat, he points at my phone and says “Wow!”.


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