u/dog-mama-25

Some of you may have seen my prior post asking about stunting in boas since I obtained an underweight boa. He’s been gaining weight steadily since December and doing great. Tonight I went to change his water and found this… I can’t figure out if it’s regurgitation or just a weird poop. He did eat Sunday night. It’s quite red tinged which makes me think regurgitation, but there are spots that look more like feces. However, I put on gloves and went through all of it, and it was just fur. No pieces of rat/tissue that I could find. Further info relating to husbandry: 4yo male Suriname BCC, habitat is a 6x2x2 enclosure heated with an RHP. Hot side is ~88° ambient temp controlled with a VE thermostat, with a drop to low-mid 80s overnight. Cool side mid-upper 70s. Humidity is 60-70%. He has 3 hides, large water dish, plenty of clutter. I did recently move his prey size up slightly from small rats to small/mediums (60-90g) since he’s gaining weight well.. and when I say it was a slight increase, I mean he was eating 50-75g rats before. His last weight on 4/12 was 633g so they’re ~10-14% of his current weight. He eats biweekly since he is still underweight, and he’s been doing great on that schedule since December. I only handle him once, maybe twice a week for about 5 minutes at a time to minimize stress, and I always wait 3+ days after feeding. Any thoughts appreciated.

Some of you may have seen my prior post asking about stunting in boas since I obtained an underweight boa. He’s been gaining weight steadily since December and doing great. Tonight I went to change his water and found this… I can’t figure out if it’s regurgitation or just a weird poop. He did eat Sunday night. It’s quite red tinged which makes me think regurgitation, but there are spots that look more like feces. However, I put on gloves and went through all of it, and it was just fur. No pieces of rat/tissue that I could find. Further info relating to husbandry: 4yo male Suriname BCC, habitat is a 6x2x2 enclosure heated with an RHP. Hot side is ~88° ambient temp controlled with a VE thermostat, with a drop to low-mid 80s overnight. Cool side mid-upper 70s. Humidity is 60-70%. He has 3 hides, large water dish, plenty of clutter. I did recently move his prey size up slightly from small rats to small/mediums (60-90g) since he’s gaining weight well.. and when I say it was a slight increase, I mean he was eating 50-75g rats before. His last weight on 4/12 was 633g so they’re ~10-14% of his current weight. He eats biweekly since he is still underweight, and he’s been doing great on that schedule since December. I only handle him once, maybe twice a week for about 5 minutes at a time to minimize stress, and I always wait 3+ days after feeding. Any thoughts appreciated.

I got this male Suriname from a friend of a friend who was not caring for it properly. He was significantly underweight and while he’s made leaps and bounds, he does still have a ways to go in his body condition. The shadow in the picture is a bit misleading and overshadows the visible part of his spine. He is also very small overall for his age (presumably due to being underfed). He is about 4 years old and only 3.5ft. I’m not out here to have the biggest boa, I really just want him to be healthy. However, I was wondering if he is still young enough to “catch up” as far as size now that he’s being fed more appropriately? Or is he stuck at being a super small guy? Anyone have any experiences rehabbing a stunted boa that ended up reaching a normal size?