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dsreptiel
at Sat Apr 5 11:40:30 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by dsreptiel ]
As for weather it Is a Boa or a Python It is a boa and if you wont take my word for it I will post a copy of a E-Male sent to my when I first got them . David {Chris Harrison) David, You should try posting this question on the Rosy, Rubber, and Sandboas forumas there are a number of people there who keep Calabaria. My experience is that they will eat if you give them a secluded cage with asubstrate they can burrow into and adequate humidity and warmth. They havea very small gape and prefer to eat crawler mice or even pinky rats or mice.They will not readily take adult or even hopper mice without some training. I have found that if you can get a calabaria to smell a fuzzy rat/mouse(they don't stick their tongues out very far), then press it up against theside of their body, they will often have a reflexive coiling response andthen swallow the rodent. Again, there are several people on the forum that have more experience withthem than I do. And for the record, they are definitely not pythons. That name stems fromthe old taxonomy where boas were believed to be live-bearers and pythons tolay eggs. Now we know that several boas, including Calabaria, lay eggs, sothat egg laying is not a good differentiating character anymore. WhetherCalabaria are in the boid subfamily Erycinae or not is still not resolved. Chris
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RE: They are pythons not boas-n/p - dsreptiel, Sat Apr 5 11:40:30 2008