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viper699
at Sun Mar 1 17:49:08 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by viper699 ]
I was talking to a friend of mine about her boa. She rescued this boa from what it sounds like was just underfed or perhaps had a problem eating, and lost weight. It's doing well now, beginning to gain weight, very alert, strong feeding response she told me.
Here's what we didn't know. It's a red tail boa, I believe though it's a boa constrictor imperator, not a true red tail (B.c.c.). With that said, she told me the saddles really aren't all that red, they are mostly brownish/grey. They should be red however. This isn't some designer morph or anything that is supposed to lack color. I know I know, that B.c.i's have a variety of saddle colors, I'm just going on the word of my friend. She does know the difference between red and brown, and told me at one point the animal had reddish saddles.
So we wondered, would the snake get its normal pigmentation back ever again? If so, would full spectrum light be needed? Should she cover the mice in some sort of vitamin powder before feeding? If so what vitamin powder would people recommend. I have only used vitamin powder with the normal feeding of lizards.
I know full spectrum isn't needed by snakes. Some people have suggested (and maybe they are right, I don't know) that whatever happened that caused the loss of this snake's normal pigment is now permanent. Is that true? Or generally true?
I never heard of this before..so it made me go "hmmm" She doesn't have a digital camera, otherwise I would have posted pics.
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 Underfed/Pigment/Lighting/Color change? - viper699, Sun Mar 1 17:49:08 2009
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