DJ,
....I have read all of your posts on the forum and will reply to several of them here.
....Aquaria with open screen tops make TERRIBLE cages for Brazilian Rainbow Boas. If you can cover 95% (sometimes more) of the screen to prevent the escape of humidity from the cage they work okay. These snakes are secretive and nocturnal. A cage with all glass sides provides too much light and exposes the snake to too much outside the tank activity. Some people use thick substrate so that the snake can hide in the substrate. Some people use smalller canotainers insde the cage for the snake to hide inside. Sterilites are good if you have them in a secure slider rack so that the snake cannot escape but if using them with their supplied Strerilite top the snake will eventually squeeze out of them or even pop the top off. An ideal cage for a BRB will provide very limited ventilation so that the humidity will remain inside the cage. If you are heating the cage, as the warm humid air escapes from the cage it will be replaced by cool dry room air. Your heater will then warm this air and it will also escape from the cage taking more humidity with it.
....If your snake has become lethargic there may be something wrong with it. The most common mistake people make with these snakes is keeping them too hot or too dry. If kept too hot or dry they will dehydrate. Slight dehydartion can lead to lethargy, going off feed and shedding problems. More serious dehydration will cause regurgitation and even death. They need temperatures in the 70s and very high humidity. Heating the entire cage into the 80s will cause trouble. If you have a cage that has some length you can have one end in the 80s as long as there is plenty of other area in the cage that is in the 70s.
....I still do not know whether you were feeding live or dead rats or mice to your snake. People can help you more if you are precise in what you post.
....I have no idea whether there was anything wrong inside the mouth of your snake. Off white with a little bit of yellow tint is normal. Bright yellow is of course not normal.
....There are lots of people who post here who have loads of experience with these snakes and they are eager to help people who ask the right questions. The most apparent attribute of the successful keepers of these snakes is strong attention to detail. The small details make all the difference.
Jeff

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