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>>108405 it's pretty easy to get dead mice/small rats/whatever. Feed dead ones for safety. ANY pet store worth its salt will have them in their freezer section. Furthermore, that's a red-tailed boa, they don't get Xbox hueg, are pretty as fuck, and fairly friendly. I'd go with a calcium-based substrate, or this stuff made of ground english walnuts...both are nonimpacting and nontoxic...I know that pine wood bedding can kill reptiles. Feed it in a cloth sack for god's sake, because otherwise it'll associate its home as a hunting ground and that is not good for your fingers. hm, what else... that's pretty much all I can think of. ask the dude at your pet store about it all, but snakes are pretty simple to care for. Once they start being able to eat bigger food, it's not uncommon for them to go nearly a month without eating. If it's not hungry, it won't eat, simple as that. I almost got one of these, but ended up with a Corn snake instead, cos at the time my mom said nothing that gets that large. about 6 years later and she's living in my apartment with me.
in all, snakes are great pets, but they last for a long time and need some actual thought to keeping them. Be prepared to have it for up to 20 years, and the longest recorded was alive for 40.
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