Well i almost had a hard attack over the weekend LOL ...

I saw a reply to the post before about splitting up breeding pairs after a while and to give them a meal if they look like they are hungry and are searching for food, which of course makes sense .. well my female was non stop searching for food and striking sometimes thinking food was present.. so i split the pair up .. now before i go on u must now that the male was a nicaraguan morph that was no more then 4 feet long at most and of course a skinny build like most nic. males ...his head is pretty small and he is just a smaller snake compared to other species ..the female is more around the area of six feet and pretty thick with a much much bigger head ..so to continue i put the male back in with the female and within seconds SHE STRUCK AT HIM RIGHT ON THE HEAD ... HIS WHOLE HEAD WAS LITERALLY IN HER MOUTH AND SHE WASNT LETTING GO .. ONCE AGAIN WITHIN A SPLIT SECOND SHE HAD THROWN HER COILS AROUND HIM AND STARTED TO TRY AND EAT HIM ...now dont think i was just looking at this .. it happened really quick and right when i saw her strike i was already half way in the enclosure .... after tuggling her around for a couple seconds she finally let go and i threw her on my bed ..my first thought after that was OH SH$T my breeder male nicaraguan morph is probaly dead after that ...and my heart was beating FAST I MEAN FAST as he was not cheap ;0).. so i check the enclosure and he is just kinda sitting there, then i picked him up and he started to move around fine .. so i went ahead and checked for wounds .. REMARKABLY he didnt have any heavy wounds on his head or body .. he only had a little blood on the side of his mouth and thats it.. i disinfected it and so on...after some time went by i put him back in the enclosure with the same female and he just sat in the corner .. as if he was amost shivering and not wanting to move .. i sprayed the female with water to make her shy away and not strike at him or anything like she did before,to kinda stop the instinct to strike and it worked very well.. after a bit i could see he didnt want to have to much to do with her but i wondered, " maybe what happened to him was just to stressful that he wouldnt continue breeding till next year"...so to see what the verdict of that was i put him with another breedable female .. and within an hour he was BREEDING HER ....

THANKFULLY i didnt loose my male to this incident but i know that i was very lucky for him to get away without any serious damage .. SO BREEDERS DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN TO U .. i know that there are alot of hungry females/males out there so when u re introduce them i reccomend to spray the animal already in the enclosure with water.. it seemed to work very well as it suppresses many instinct reactions and causes them to shy away .. when this happens they can tell that its a boa and not jump to the conclusion that it is a rat ..so watch out ... u dont want ur heart pumping as hard and fast as mine was ;0) ..also has anyone ever heard this happen before?? have a good one and i hope all u have a great year with offspring..

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