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Rottenweiler9
at Thu Oct 5 20:26:52 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Rottenweiler9 ]
> 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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 Boa Movement question - Rottenweiler9, Thu Oct 5 20:26:52 2006
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