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Small Baja rosy boa.
Size: Consider
rosy boas one of the smaller boids. The
youngsters start life at 12 inches and rarely grow beyond 40.
Cage Tops: All snakes
spend their waking hours trying to escape.
Ditto rosy boas. You need a tight-fitting cover.
Check it often.
Cage Decor: Rosy boas
prefer to burrow rather than climb. You
need neither a tall tank nor lots of climbing branches.
Provide some low branches and rocks to assist their
shedding process.
Cage Floor: Mats look
good and clean easily. They
are also easy to keep dry. Your
rosy boa will prefer a sand or aspen substrate into which it can burrow.
Use an under-cage heater rather than a hot rock.
Heat only half the floor. This gives him a choice of
temperatures.
Cage Walls: Avoid
keeping any snake in a wire cage or rough wood cage (or any other cage they
could injure themselves by rubbing against). Hardware cloth presents
a real threat to their noses. With nothing else to do, they will rub
their noses raw in attempting to escape. Plastic or glass walls work
best.
Security: All snakes
need a place to hide. You need
a cave or box small enough that they touch the sides. In the wild,
snakes spend most of their time hiding. Rosy boas like to burrow
into their substrate.
Foods: You won’t have
to stand on your head to get your rosy to eat.
They enjoy eating. Rosy
boa mouths are smaller than most boids, so they need a smaller
prey. Rosy boas make good
candidates for the commercial frozen snake foods. They greedily
accept thawed frozen rodents -- warmed up, of course. Thaw them in a
plastic bag immersed in warm water. Forget your microwave
cooker. They want their rodents raw.
Supplements:
Feed your rosy boas healthy mice and don’t worry about supplements.
Special
Lights: Rosy boas work the
night shift. They do not need
full-spectrum lighting.
Mixers:
Feel free to keep several rosy boas together.
However, if you do mix them, feed each separately.
This makes sure that each one eats and keeps them from swallowing
each other accidentally.
Breeding:
After they eat and defecate their last meal in November, hibernate
rosy boa potential breeders for three months (no food) at 55 degrees.
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Rosy boas make a good snake for youngsters.
Summary:
You can’t beat rosy boas as a trouble-free snake. LA
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