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Hey I FINALLY got some good pics of Rocky as opposed to that crappy one I've been having to use. They were all taken as he was eating his rat. The first one he is eating the rat. The second is him right after finishing with some substrate on his face. I love the third one because he's trying to get it off and he just looks so annoyed by it. ENJOY!

So now you can see him more clearly, what do you guys think?

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Scott

Reptiles
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1 Colombian Rainbow Boa (Rocky)
1.0 Ball Python (Sultan)
0.1 California Kingsnake (Leota)
1.0 Eastern Painted Turtle (Yugi)
0.1 Red/Gold Bearded Dragon* (Irwin, R.I.P.)

Other
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1.0 Betta Fish (Tyrone)

Scott, I am not a crb guy but I think any female crb would love to get pregnant by Rocky! He looks nice and the pics were cool.
Bob

Bob I don't even know his true gender! lol
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Scott

Reptiles
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1 Colombian Rainbow Boa (Rocky)
1.0 Ball Python (Sultan)
0.1 California Kingsnake (Leota)
1.0 Eastern Painted Turtle (Yugi)
0.1 Red/Gold Bearded Dragon* (Irwin, R.I.P.)

Other
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1.0 Betta Fish (Tyrone)

Hey Scott, Mike suggested a book called Rainbow Boas and Neotropical Tree Boas by Barron's and they have all kinds of wonderful pics. Here are a couple of pics of crb's that caught my eye and now I am getting interested in Argentine's because of the pale color and all, I love that about those. The things I like about them are the color cuz they don't have none but I don't like the undefined crescents on them but interesting to me nonetheless. Crappy first pic I apologize the first two are crb's (second one is guyana though) I liked and the last are argentines.




I might even try and get an 0.1 arb this year cuz everytime I see pics I just like them that much more. I know you don't know Rocky's sex but feel bad calling him Rochelle lol Nice pics and I bet seeing the transition the first two years of a crb first hand is much more beautiful than books can describe. Next time you buy a rat for Rocky and you are gonna feed him in the enclosure again. Try putting the live rat on his cage for little before trying the p/k method. I got a bci (eating machine) this monster goes from playing to eating mode in seconds. Every once in awhile I'll keep one my momma mouse's in a little kritter keeper case in my bedroom with my 9 snakes. None of my snakes go in feeding ever because maybe it's a female so they smell is almost nonething but once she has her babies and they are making noise to suck on momma. My bci goes into hunting mode from what I don't know cuz they are deaf and are at opposite ends of the room like 13 ft. away. He is the farthest away but is the most responsive of them. I could just feed and the next day he hears the little ones and he is in ambush mode in the grapevine poising to strike at the ground-oppurtunistic feeders or something but he is smart (also got out for 17 days too) but that was keeper error. It's getting lengthy Scott so I'll stop but check out mouth rot and what the effects are to a bitten snake are what not. This is not to intended to make you worry but just to make you switch over from live that's all.
Bob

Oh so there ARE books on keeping them out there! Nice pics, but the very first one is coing out to be that dumb red x. There's another book out there about different color morphs of boas and rainbows are one of the main types mentioned in the book. I read about it in a REPTILES magazine, but unfortunately I don't think I have that issue on me right now, but if you want, I can get the title to you once I find it.
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Scott

Reptiles
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1 Colombian Rainbow Boa (Rocky)
1.0 Ball Python (Sultan)
0.1 California Kingsnake (Leota)
1.0 Eastern Painted Turtle (Yugi)
0.1 Red/Gold Bearded Dragon* (Irwin, R.I.P.)

Other
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1.0 Betta Fish (Tyrone)

Scott,
My first snake was a CRB and I really liked her. Yours looks beautiful.
Normally I don't chime in about how people keep their animals but I've read your posts and know your a guy who worries. From your post it sounds like your feeding live rats. Despite what others will tell you, your snake is going to get bit. Not maybe, it will get bitten eventually. The snake will most likely survive fine and heal beautifully, this is what happens in nature. For me, I don't want my animals looking like they been through a blender; too expensive and pretty. But you are going to freak out when that rat sinks its incisors into your snake and the blood starts to flow. My advice is to stun the animal first or go F/T.
Again, beautiful CRB!
Paul

Great looking snake! Your enthusiasm over him is cool. I can tell you really like that animal.
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Mike Lockwood
www.tooscaley.com

When I really think about it, I am somewhat surprised about my huge enthusiasm for CRBs. I remember reading an article by Dick Bartlett in a REPTILES magazine on rainbow boas, and feeling nothing towards them. Amazing how my attitude about them has changed a few short years later!
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Scott

Reptiles
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1 Colombian Rainbow Boa (Rocky)
1.0 Ball Python (Sultan)
0.1 California Kingsnake (Leota)
1.0 Eastern Painted Turtle (Yugi)
0.1 Red/Gold Bearded Dragon* (Irwin, R.I.P.)

Other
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1.0 Betta Fish (Tyrone)

I tried feeding Rocky F/T rats, but he showed almost no interest at all in them. I was afraid he'd show no interest in stunned...but I guess I have no choice but to try. You see, I had to stun mice for my very first snake(some kind of gopher snake, I think Pacific, but that's not the point) and I really didn't enjoy it that much. But hey I gotta do what I gotta do to keep this guy alive.

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Scott

Reptiles
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1 Colombian Rainbow Boa (Rocky)
1.0 Ball Python (Sultan)
0.1 California Kingsnake (Leota)
1.0 Eastern Painted Turtle (Yugi)
0.1 Red/Gold Bearded Dragon* (Irwin, R.I.P.)

Other
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1.0 Betta Fish (Tyrone)

Umm... Am i the only one that thinks he shouldnt be feeding on the substrate? you can see by the pictures that the snake is ingesting the coconut fiber/moss. if it eats to much, its going to get blocked up and die...

Derek,

He is not eating the substrate. As you can see in the photos, they got on his face as the rat slid down the hatch. He then just simply rubs his face against the branch, hide log, or whatever, and it's gone. It isn't a problem unless the snake swallows HUGE amounts of it. This photo might be a little misleading as well. The long strand of moss is actually dangling from his climbing branch, but you can't tell in the picture.

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Scott

Reptiles
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1 Colombian Rainbow Boa (Rocky)
1.0 Ball Python (Sultan)
0.1 California Kingsnake (Leota)
1.0 Eastern Painted Turtle (Yugi)
0.1 Red/Gold Bearded Dragon* (Irwin, R.I.P.)

Other
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1.0 Betta Fish (Tyrone)

yeah, but you can see the pieces in his mouth(coconuct fiber), and even if only a couple pieces get swallowed, it slowly adds up over each feeding

but whatever... its your choice