Hello all!Everyone knows that its always good to have a few good males around!But those who know me know I am male heavy!Really heavy!So today I seen a boa at a local petstore!An jus my luck it was a female!So I offered a male up for trade an the owner jumped on it!It was one of my 100% het for albino males!But I felt kinda sorry for this female,she looked like she was starving!6 an half foot female ought to have some good weight right?So I brought her home an seperated a 55 gallon away from the rest of my collection an gave her a couple of hrs to calm down an I offered her a frozen thawed large rat an bammo she nailed it,an well I kinda thought to myself,thought this person said she was a picky eater!I came back a little bit later to check on her an the rat was gone but I didnt see an lump,so I thawed out 2 small rats an bammo she ate bothe!This person said she was so pickey she wouldnt eat a black rat an I thought this was kinda weird too cause 2 of the rats I thawed out were hooded rats an the hood was guess what color!She has a small lump in her now an I didnt want to make her sick!Should I keep her on a 7 to 10 day schedule like the rest of my collection is or shopuld she have a different feeding schedule?She has an old nose rub wound that has healed an a couple of old scars thet definatley look like a rat wound but other than that shes got a very light background with alot of speckling kinda like a het but I dont know her back ground!I can tell by the way she takes the rats that she was on frozen thawed at one time but I feel her last home was feeding her live from the couple of scars shes got!I dont know if I can get the weight on her for this year but next season will be a definate!Sorry no pics at the moment but shes prettier than my bigmamma is!But I still love my big mamma!Any ideas on feeding this new girl would be greatly appriciated!Thanks Eric[Hypoboa]
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Was wandering?About feeding?[A little long]
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Actually you should have just bought her. the store is apperently ignorant towards snakes. If she ate for you the why didn't she eat for them. Instead of rescuing 1 snake you gave him one tp mess up. JMHO Paul
I understand that I should have just bought her,but I am not lucky enough to do that with being disabled!Believe me I would much rather jump the first few rungs of the ladder an be able to buy albino's,hypo's,ghost's,ect!But I cant,Heck I have been in this hobby for about 14 to 16 months now an still don't own an haven't owened my first hypo boa!But I guarentee I do this upcoming year!Do you not think that any,big or small breeders don't worry about weather the boa they are selling is going to a good home?They do I guarentee they do!But this is not just a hobby to some it is a business an as a business they cant worry about where every boa goes,or they wouldn't be a business!Now if they know that a person is a bad person then that gives them definate rights not to sell that person another boa!In the end all I can do is what I been doing for over the past year,is build my collection the best way that I can an give my boa's the best care that I can!An believe me I have'nt done a bad job in my choices of normals!An they may be normals but I love them as much as I would a motley!Sorry for the length of this an thanks for taking the time to read it!Thanks Eric[Hypoboa]
Feed her 2 rats every week for 2 months. That will put weight on her. Good luck with that Eric.
James C.
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