Actually, I have a couple of questions...I got a BRB about a year ago from a pet shop that had no clue how to take care of one...they had the temps way too high and no humidity. The poor thing was very dehydrated and had left over skin on it from 2 different sheds and was getting ready to shed again! When I got it, we thought it was dead at first cause the employee picked it up and there was no movement at all, no tongue flicker or anything, but finally it moved alittle. If I was thinking rationally, I would never get a snake in such poor shape, but it was so beautiful and I didn't want it to suffer any longer. It was about 15 inches long at the time. So I took it home, got the old skin off, got it in an appropriate environment and it started to do alot better. But I had a terrible time getting it to eat...it would take a mice pinky or fuzzy about once every 3 to 5 weeks for about a 3 to 4 month time period. Then I read a care sheet saying they like rat pinkies...as soon as I put one in front of her (prekilled f/t) she took it in a heartbeat! So now to my questions: Can you tell the sex of a BRB by looking at bone spurs? I read somewhere that males had small ones compared to other boas, and that they are not visible on females...there are no spurs visible so we (me and my fiancee) thought it was a female. Is this correct, or was the book wrong? Also, I'm worried about its size...even after eating harding now for over half a year it is only 24 inches long (not skinny, has a good body shape). Will it ever get "normal" size?? I've seen posts where people say their females are about 4 feet in the first year, and mine is now at least a year and barely 2 feet long! Sorry for the length of this post, but I wanted to give plenty of background info.
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-David

1.0 ball python (Pandora - don't ask)
1.0 argentine boa (Prometheus)
0.1 hogg island boa (Andromeda)
0.0.1 brazilian rainbow boa (Inara)
1.0 kenyan sand boa (Diablo)
1.0 nornal corn snake(Cypress)
0.1 amery. corn snake (Morgan LaFay)
0.0.1 banded cali. kingsnake (Cain)
1.0 tangerine honduran milksnake (Narcissus)
0.0.1 sandfish skink (Slick)
1.0 dog (Luke)

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