> Need your advice on my boa. I not sure and I do not think its this (IBD) but

> need your opinion. My Boa is 4 years old. She was a goood baby ate well, then

> she had a stint for a while where she did not eat. At this point I did not

> handle her. Well she started eating again after a long on and off phase and

> moved her into a rack system where she is in the dark all day. Now she has

> become nippy. I bring her out no problem but holding her she just decid es to

> snap one bite and then thats it. Maybe its because she feels insecure, or maybe

> she is just nippy. Do you know if Boas are so wound tight that they move

> akwardly. My pythons move gracful but the boa has always latched itself on

> tight and moves wabbly. And this brings me to my point. The other day I

> brought her out and put her on the ground and it looked like she was constriting

> her tail and stayed on her side. She stayed like that for awhile, and then

> snapped out not bitting but like someone pulled a cord and jus!

> t came out of it. Tonight I checked on her and I reached in there, now with a

> glove on because I am sick of being tagged, and she was moving away and trying

> to get her head away and curl the front half of her body but then did not. It

> just looks really weird. She eats pretty good, but she did have a regurge a

> couple months ago, for the first time since she was a baby. She is in a large

> rubbermaid container at 85 degrees on the cool end and about 92 on the warm.

> Another question is do you think it would be a problem if I just left it at 85

> degrees for her or a little warmer. I think she had the regurge when the water

> bowl kept spilling (I changed it) and the cage was always getting wet so I

> changed it every other day. Only thing I can think of it was to humid in there

> and a breeding ground of bacteria, but it was cloroxed each time.

> Thank you in advance
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