To reiterate what was already said, the quarantine period's purpose is to keep an animal seperate to monitor for illness prior to mixing with other animals and possibly contaminating them. Since your female is so thin, disease must be considered. Quarantine periods for boid snakes should be MINUMUM 3 months, but 6-12months is ideal if the animal appears healthy for the entire period.

Boas are solitary animals and ideally should not be kept together unless attempting to breed them. Your animals should not be bred until healthy, if ever. You might be seeing breeding behavior brought on by the the change of conditions and the newly aquired mate. This will ultimately kill your female if she is indeed as emaciated as you describe.

My best suggestion is to take your whole snake family to the veterinary office, have them all checked out, assessed properly, and with a hand's on exam, and then have a first hand proffesional opinion on where to proceed. In addition, but not to substitute my first suggestion, is to continue educating yourself on boa husbandry and health care. Buy some books. Continue surfing the net for information, and join a reptile club.

[ Hide Replies ]

• questions regarding boas? - Casey31179, Mon May 16 19:56:19 2005
• RE: questions for you.... - RioBravoReptiles, Mon May 16 20:11:43 2005
• RE: questions for you.... - joeysgreen, Tue May 17 05:56:44 2005
• RE: questions for you.... - casey31179, Tue May 17 08:26:33 2005
• RE: questions for you.... - joeysgreen, Wed May 18 03:10:54 2005
• RE: questions for you.... - casey31179, Wed May 18 20:35:49 2005
• RE: questions for you.... - casey31179, Tue May 17 08:15:06 2005