I'm hopefully going to be getting a 4' cuban boa from a fellow employee at the petstore I work at soon. He's had it for a few years and appearantly it hasn't grown hardly at all on a diet of one mouse per week. From my research, they seem to usually get much larger. On one occasion, he said it ate 8 mice. I'm wondering if it might be stunted from going so long on such a diet. Do you think it would start growing again if I fed it more?



Also, if anyone has any experience with this species, do you have any tips for them in particular? I've kept colombian redtails before, so I've dealt with larger snakes before.

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• Stunted cuban? - Jeff B, Wed Sep 13 12:06:14 2006
• 1 mouse a week, for a 4' boa? - slithering_serpents, Wed Sep 13 14:49:29 2006
• Cuban boas are of the genus... - ChrisGilbert, Wed Sep 13 15:18:33 2006
• I stand corrected . . . I apologize! n/p - slithering_serpents, Wed Sep 13 15:24:13 2006
• RE: Ask over in the Rainbow Forum.... - BillyBoy, Thu Sep 14 06:23:10 2006
• RE: Ask over in the Rainbow Forum.... - Jeff B, Thu Sep 14 13:03:57 2006