Can baby Rainbows eat small fishes? Aside from mice,rats are there any types of prey they can eat?
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Is fish a good diet for Rainbow Boas?
aliaime
Jul 06, 2005 10:46 AM
Replies (2)
rainbowsrus
Jul 06, 2005 11:15 AM
Theya are naturally small mammal eaters. Anything else could be a supplement but I would not make a staple diet. Don't know if they'd even notice fish.
For other prey, maybe small birds/chicks for the adults. I raise my own rats/mice and have never tried anything else....not broke, don't try to fix it
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Thanks,
Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"
0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.1 Ball python
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats 
Jeff Clark
Jul 08, 2005 04:30 PM
aliaime,
...Like Dave says, If it ain't broke don't fix it. Rainbow Boas do great with a diet of rodents. I have never tried to feed a fish to a little Rainbow Boa. Many years ago I had a few baby Colombian and Argentinian Rainbows that were picky feeders at first and I fed them Green Anoles and House Geckos for several meals to get them started. Getting little rodent feeders started with lizards is common with many of the colubrids and some of the boids including the insular Epicrates species. I have never had a baby BRB refuse to eat rodents and so I have never tried to feed lizards to them.
Jeff
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