2018 0.1 Boa Constrictor Occidentalis, Argentine Boa, Progression

[EL-Ziggy]

Thanks, Ziggy! This is my first time intentionally fasting them through the winter and seeing them clearly looking for food makes me want to cave in. Suppose I could take your approach too, smaller and fewer meals with slightly lower temps. If anyone starts looking thin I’ll adjust my plans but ambient temps are scheduled to start dropping in a couple weeks and hot spots will be lower and not offered at night. Gotta get the Brisbanes accustomed to some fairly cool temps for breeding trials eventually, and maybe the Argentine someday as well.


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Most of my critters get super active about 10 days after eating because they’re usually fed roughly every 2 weeks. I just moved them to every 3 weeks. Then it’ll be every 4-6 weeks until March. No more jumbo rats for anybody. They’ll get one more large and then it’s all medium and small rats. I’ve gotta start dialing my temps back too. That’s where I get a little off track, especially in the cages with RHPs. Those guys are still basking at 86-88 F with ambient temps of 80F. So you drop your daytime temps and totally kill the heat at night. Where do you keep your daytime temps? My house gets down to 68-70 at night. It doesn’t seem to bother them and I know the Argie and Bredli can withstand even colder temps.