Strange thing today. It was the first rather sunny 65-70ish spring day here in Boston and so I took one of the non-feeding Viper boa's and took her outside and put her in the flower bed. Thought she'd like to pretend to be wild for a couple of mins. Boy she went into evil snake mode and started striking at everything. Me, the flowers, and anything that moved. Then she almost tried to crawl under a rock to escape. Phew. lol.

I don't know if this was a defensivene posturing simply because she was out in the bright light. But she was striking like a rattler. My thinking is next time i'll take her outside in a large deli cup, let her see the light and warmth and then place a fuzzy rat in there. Maybe that will trigger some feeding fiestiness.

Anyone think this could work?

Maybe bright light is a feeding trigger. My bedroom is rather dim/ soft ligthing so maybe that is why they usually are tame and easier to handle. I guess what i'm asking is does any expert here know what value light plays in this species role, specifically when it comes to feeding. I might go and setup a uv flourescent light over their tank to give them some more daylight during the day. Does anyone do this?

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