I recently took in a baby Hog Island Boa with some problems.

This baby's sibling are about 3 or 4 times his size. He was brought into this world with only one eye. He's never eaten. I'm guessing he's a few months old. He's very good natured, slow moving, and curious.

I need some advise on getting him to eat.

He's been offered live and frozen thawed pinkys. When I got him, he was in a small shoebox sized plastic housing with newspaper substrate (I got him from a friend of mine who's a very succesful breeder of many species.)

I have a heating pad under one side of the tank. That isn't turned on all the time. When it's not on, I have a red repitle heating lamp focusing on a basking spot. The other side of the tank is not heated for obvious reasons. The temperature on the warm side fluctuates between 85-95 and the humidty currently is currently 52% and rising. Substrate is shredded cococnut bark (as per suggesstion of some caresheet I found somewhere). I tried aspen before the coconut bark. I believe I have his setup correct.

I'm not an inexperienced keeper. I have Ball pythons, a red tailed boa, corn snake, and a rat snake. I've kept other species in the past as well so I'm not exactly green.

And to emphsize the point again, this is a baby who only has one eye and has never eaten.

Any thought on triggering a feeding response from this obvious low self-confidence little one?


Thanks in advance.