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hiya,

i'm hoping to be buying a baby hog island boa in september time and just wanted to know as much info as possible
1. heating and housing requirements,
2. how often to feed the boa and what size food,
3. what substrate to use,
4. and how much everything im going to need will come to.
much appreciated,

Jonno.

would you like us to house and feed it for you too? maybe clean up it's urates and bm's? we might as well handle it and tame it down for you as well. and you can borrow my camera... actually... i'll just snap the pics for you and put your logo on them.
lol, just kiddin... seriously though, do some research, we can't hand it all to you. come back with some specific questions. everything you just asked for would take someone several hours to cover completely and i don't see anyone willing to help you out if you haven't helped yourself out yet.
good luck and let us know when you've got some specific questions!
later, jb
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Jonathan Brady
My Kingsnake Photo Gallery

HI Jonno,

I have to agree with Jonathan, as far as doing some research first. Use the search function, and maybe go to google also. I have a 2 year old pair, and this is what works for me. Each is in a 2'x2'cage. You could probably start with a 10 gal. aquarium. I use newspapers for substrate, and a large wad of shreaded newspapers for a hide area. This provides an inexpensive, sterile, dry substrate which I change about every week as needed. I provide a hot spot of 90F by using an under tank heater stuck onto a ceramic tile about 1/4 " below the tank. Use a thermostat or dimmer switch and check your temps. Have clean water always available. Feed once every 7-10 days, and gradually increase the size of the prey item. Get him onto frozen thawed as soon as possible. Mine currently eat FT jumbo mice, or small FT rats about every week. ---Frank