Hi..

I strongly recommend removing hide-boxes with pregnant Boa.. It's one of those things where if everything goes perfect then there's no problem (we've had perfect births in bags!) but I've seen baby boas get smashed or smothered in a hide-box. Why take the risk? take out the box and cover the front of the enclosure for privacy.

Of course if you use newsprint or some other featureless substrate Mom may have a hard time bracing her body to make the proper contractions to give birth without the box to grip on to.. that's one downside to that kind of cage-bottom.

This is the Catch-22 that is out there in so many of these questions! The entire set-up, feeding, temps, age (and any number of factors) figure in.. but people mostly deal with one issue at a time.

Better safe than sorry, take out the hide. That's my opinion on the subject.

Gus
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Gus
A. Rentfro
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• Removal of Cave/Hide on a pregnant Boa? - tcdrover, Tue Apr 19 12:43:39 2005
• RE: Removal of Cave/Hide on a pregnant Boa? - shhawke, Tue Apr 19 21:33:37 2005
• RE: Removal of Cave/Hide on a pregnant Boa? - RioBravoReptiles, Wed Apr 20 17:28:48 2005