Thursday, July 30, 2009

Brazilian rainbow boa?

my uncles snake is pregnant ive tried looking for a site for the new borns
what they eat, humidity requirments ect ect
any help for those snake lovers?
Answers:
well boas usaly eat rats and mice. um thats what i feed my red tail. um the humidty shoudl be high. and they should have a hetaing pad underneath the tank.
The babies will be a little more fragile than the adults, tolerating less variations from their ideal conditions. If kept identically to the adults, you should experience few problems. Many species of snake can be hard to get started on food. Remember you shouldn't feed until after their first shed, up to that point they will subsist on retained nutrients from their gestation. After their first shed, you should try to feed them small pink mice. If they are reluctant to eat, you may try scenting the mouse with a lizard, or toad(rub the mouse on the actual animal to make it smell like the preferred prey.) If after a couple of weeks they still refuse to eat you may need to buy an anole, or a house gecko to feed them. So to recap:
1) Try feeding unscented pink mice
2) Try feeding scented pink mice
3) Try feeding cold-blooded prey
Good Luck with the young'uns!
This came from the webite below. There's much more info on the site.
Baby Brazilian Rainbows are born in litters of two to thirty five. A typical litter contains twelve to twenty five babies. The babies are usually fifteen to twenty inches long and are usually born looking robust and healthy. Most specimens start out striking at anything that moves but can be tamed with regular calm handling. They need to be kept at temperatures near 80 degrees and in high humidity. Temperatures above 85 degrees can cause fatalities in Brazilian Rainbows. Baby Brazilian Rainbows require humidity above 70 percent. They will do well kept individually in plastic shoeboxes until they are about 24 inches long and can then be moved into larger plastic storage containers or box type cages. They should not be kept in fish tanks or similar cages as the large screened area will allow too much humidity to escape from the cage. As adults they will usually drink large amounts of water and will not require nearly as high relative humidity in their cages. Babies should be fed on a schedule of from once every four days to once a week. Most of them will continue to feed even when they are opaque prior to shedding. Many people make the mistake of feeding pinky mice to baby Brazilian Rainbow Boas. If you have an unlimited source of pinky mice then go ahead and feed them to baby Brazilian Rainbows but be prepared to feed lots of them at each feeding. These snakes are born large enough to take hopper mice as their first meal. Many of mine have done well starting out on rat pinkies. A mouse pinky will make a very small lump in a baby Brazilian Rainbow and be digested down so that the lump is no longer externally visible within 24 hours. Brazilian Rainbows will grow rapidly on one or two appropriately sized mice a week.
Will your uncle be selling the babies? If so, I'm interested.

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