Reptile & Amphibian Forums

I have a Brazilian Rainbow Boa. He is about a year and a half old and is eating large rats. Right now he is 55 inches and about 2 pounds. I want to know what the size of yalls rainbows are. I am also adding some pictures just to show mine off.

heres a head shot

not great but its something

I like this one

MSUBigdawg,
I grow my BRBs more slowly than you have grown yours. I try to get growth of one to two inches per month for the first 2 years. There are some people on this forum who do grow their BRBs as quickly as you are growing yours and they are having good luck with them. I believe that many young boids can be fed very heavily and grown very quickly for the first two years. In the wild they probably need to grow up large enough that they are not prey for so many small predators.
Jeff

>>I have a Brazilian Rainbow Boa. He is about a year and a half old and is eating large rats. Right now he is 55 inches and about 2 pounds. I want to know what the size of yalls rainbows are. I am also adding some pictures just to show mine off.
>>

I wasnt trying to grow him fast. Just feeding him as normal as I have always fed a snake. I didn't do it to try and breed or anything. I have never tried to feed him by the length he will grow. But I have seen the pics of some of your babies and WOW. Keep up the good work and one day when I want a second BRB I may have to give you a call.

That is one bomber BRB! Makes me think I'm starving mine. My two year olds are just over 50 inches and should be eating small rats but I'm finishing off the weanlings now (two a feeding every 7 days or so).
Paul

Yea he is on large rats now. I have fed him irregularly for the first year. He was fed on average about ever week to 10 days. Now I have shortened to exactly a week for about another year. Then I will back off.

My yearling is just over 3 feet and is eating rat weanlings..but than again I am in no hurry to get to breeding I think waiting three to three and a half years to breed with any snake is better on the snake..just me though.
nice husky BRB though should be a monster when adult.
-----
0.1 Leos
1.1 Corn snakes (1 Lav & 1 Ghost)
0.1 Banan California King
0.0.1 Childrens python
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow boa
1.0 Rat (as pet not food)
1.2 Ball pythons (1pastel 2 normals)
"whats with you and all those dang reptiles?"

Im not planning on breeding anytime soon. If I do it will be like when is is 5 or 6 or so.

My adult breeders eat medium rats. I have a yearling on weiner rats, and I can't imagine it being large enough in 6 months to consider feeding a large. My understanding is that a healthier situation results in properly sized meals. The snake should reflect this in it's appearance. You snake looks as though you are giving it steroids. It does not reflect the proper development of the species at the age you say it is. I feed mine to grow consistantly larger until they reach their genetic potential. I want them to be around a long, long time.

Linda

maybe mine just grows larger than yours. I have not tried to over feed him at all or give him food that is to big. I just has always eaten what is the proper size to the largest part of his body. Its not like I plan on breeding him and I want him to get large. He seems to be perfectly fine as well. I handle him almost everyday except for the few after he eats. The only prob he has had is a URI and we are giving him shots for that right now.

hi

i have 2 brazilian rainbow boas and they got the first 6 weeks lil baby mice and a fe weeks fuzzy and then 1 adult mice a week and never during there shed cycle i usually gave them the medium to big adults. they are almost 9 months of age and 1 of them is around 31 inch and the other who has been fed the same is now 43,5 inch. so i dunno is this is a extreme fast growt
i dont think im overfeeding them........ they are from a nest of which the mother had over 60 baby brbs

greats,

michiel
-----
1.1 Epicrates cenchria cenchria
1.0 Lampropeltis getulus californea
1.0 Morelia spilota cheynei
0.1 Morelia variegata - striped