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[snake] I'm planning to buy a boa.
Anybody know any good breeders in the area?
I had grand plans to build it an 8'x2'x3' cage (between my front speakers, under my projector screen, designed to be disassembled for moving), but everybody is telling me that that much space would terrify a baby to the point it wouldn't eat. And in fact it is likely to grow out of anything appropriately small by 6 months. So as much as I'm resistant to the idea, I'll be starting it off in a big rubbermaid tub (as everyone recommends), which I plan to buy tonight. Then when it outgrows that I'm planning on a 4'x2'x1', and finally doing the 8' I originally planned.
The only other equipment I'm planning to buy is a Zoo Med Under Tank Heater (6"x8"), and a thermometer / hygrometer (humidity) set.
I'm still very interested in suggestions. I was planning to get an anerythristic red tail boa, but I may have been convinced to get a nice normal to avoid the health problems associated with the inbreeding required to create morphs. I'd love a snow, but I'm not willing to pay thousands of dollars for it.
I've been strangely enjoying going through long lists of baby names.
This is reasonably likely to be a 30 year commitment. I've been doing a lot of research.
Photo of a baby hypo-melanistic Boa Constrictor Imperator normal.
I had grand plans to build it an 8'x2'x3' cage (between my front speakers, under my projector screen, designed to be disassembled for moving), but everybody is telling me that that much space would terrify a baby to the point it wouldn't eat. And in fact it is likely to grow out of anything appropriately small by 6 months. So as much as I'm resistant to the idea, I'll be starting it off in a big rubbermaid tub (as everyone recommends), which I plan to buy tonight. Then when it outgrows that I'm planning on a 4'x2'x1', and finally doing the 8' I originally planned.
The only other equipment I'm planning to buy is a Zoo Med Under Tank Heater (6"x8"), and a thermometer / hygrometer (humidity) set.
I'm still very interested in suggestions. I was planning to get an anerythristic red tail boa, but I may have been convinced to get a nice normal to avoid the health problems associated with the inbreeding required to create morphs. I'd love a snow, but I'm not willing to pay thousands of dollars for it.
I've been strangely enjoying going through long lists of baby names.
This is reasonably likely to be a 30 year commitment. I've been doing a lot of research.
Photo of a baby hypo-melanistic Boa Constrictor Imperator normal.
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I suspect you've encountered this in your readings, but you know you should never feed and house a snake in the same enclosure? Doing so greatly enhances the likelihood of being bitten. (If you haven't encountered it, somewhere on the internet is a listing of Stupid Feeding Errors that was very helpful to my family when we boarded two ball pythons.)
Also, I would love to help you socialize your snake. I've been quite herp-deprived for some time now.
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And I'd also love to have you help socialize my snake.
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http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/2206/sfe.html
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The pythons we had were under four feet long, and we got by without a snakehook, but his suggestion of hemostats is a good one. (We used 24-inch-long tweezers, left over from handling bees.) We only once ran into a problem of picking them up after feeding (Item 4); didn't let one sit quite long enough and I got nailed on the thumb-web.