Boa temperament/bites

[starmom]

Hey Pat- do you know the weight of the rat pups you're giving your females?

[Patrick Long]

Hey Pat- do you know the weight of the rat pups you're giving your females?

I have no idea, I have never really weighed a rat. I looked on rodent pro and I would say that they are about the 20-29 gram pup.

[starmom]

Hmmm- are these your Bci's?

I ask because I just upped my Bci's (year and a half old females) to 80g rats every 10 days. They (the snakes) weigh a little over 1000g and so I thought it was time. They also damn near took my hand off at every feeding!!! The snakes are in good muscular shape and get lots of exercise...

...but what do you think?

[Patrick Long]

Yeah BCI's, I just go by the thickness of the snake. I acutally havent weighed the 07's I will do that in a bit.

[clapton924]

To me it seems your biting problems are associated with feeding. I feed my boa inside its cage and have never had agression problems. She sometimes will hiss when she is having a bad day....but has never bit me. After feeding my boa I would not try to handle her in anyway for 24hrs....I can sense she is still excited from the food several hours after feeding.

I have 07 female BCI that eats medium to large rats. Little over 4ft and weighs about 1200g.

[snakewrangler]

I would switch the boa from mice to rats as soon as possible and space out the feedings to 7-10 days.

I agree with everyone else here- never mess with him around feeding time.

[starmom]

I'm feeding my 1.5 year old females 80g rats and my little one is on 55g small rats; every 10 days.