Mike,
...Most of the other subspecies of Rainbow Boas are easy to get started. Some people have good luck with Guyanan babies but some people including me have had trouble getting them started. Look at temperature and humidity first. If kept too hot or too dry babies of all the subspecies of Rainbow Boas will refuse to eat. Baby Rainbow Boas will do fine with temperature in the mid 70s if kept in a small cage. In a cage large enough to set up a heat gradient the warm end should be in the high 70s to low 80s and the cool end in the low 70s. For most of the subspecies a live hopper mouse is the BEST first meal. They definitiely like them live better than dead and they like them with hair and grown up just big enough to run around. Having said that many baby Rainbow Boas will readily take a live pinky rat. They will eat better at night with minimal disturbance rather than during the day with lots of activity around them.
Good luck,
Jeff

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