I don't believe your boa is alive in a cage in the sun 4 hours a day with no hiding places. If that were the case your boa would be cooked. Your whole warm side is 90F too. Fortunately your boa was well cared for with the previous owner, you're still running on the good they did, but it won't last. Learn about the care of any pet before you get them. You should have had your whole set up perfect before you even brought your girl home. You shouldn't have started with an adult BCC either. I feed my BCCs every three weeks unless I plan on breeding them that year, and trust me you have no business breeding if you can't even maintain an animal. It would have made sense to have your friends, who used to own the boa, help you out with the temps and humidity etc., obviously they did a good job and know what they are doing with a BCC.

Your temps are all screwed up, partly from the sun. Get your cage out of the sun. Then you can begin to straighten out your temps. Your warm side and cool side are too far apart. A BCC needs more warmth than a BCI. Ask the previous owners what temps they ran for her in the warm side, the cool side, and the basking spot (# temps) and mimick those. Then give her two tight hide boxes, on on the cool end and one on the warm end, not on the hot spot. Spray her cage (not her) once a day unless you have a real nice plastic cage that holds the humidity like a tub. But like I said, ask the previous owner about the temp/humidity they kept, that's what your girl is used to. You want to return her to the same type of environment she had before. If she's used to a Boaphile, buy her a Boaphile etc. If you have her in an aquarium, toss it and get a snake cage. She's suffering from your care, and her immune system won't be able to handle the stress indefinitely, and she will get sick in some way unless you do your job. Or just give her back and start the right way with a Colombian baby, which are much more forgiving of below par care. You should have gotten her eating really good first before trying to switch her to f/t. At least give her a few months of her being in a healthy stable environment first, so she can get used to the differences. Feed her live every three weeks until she's eating good, just have a big stick in your hand and be ready to whop the rat if necessary, and watch the whole time while she eats. You said she "escaped" her cage too, it's yours job to make sure she can never do this again too. That means a real snake cage with locks. You need that anyway to control your heat. She's not picky, you just don't know what you're doing yet. When your temps are correct she will never miss a meal, my BCCs don't ever miss one even when they are in a full shed. : ) Now how about a pick? : )
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