Pacific Boa Constrictor Snakes (Candoia bibroni bibroni)

RifRaf sheds again and this time it's HUGE! We are always impressed when we get a full shed, more often it's in 2 parts. We keep the intact ones to compare growth rate. Shed skins are always larger than the actual snake. Rifraf is now 4 years old, and is just over a metre long, but this shed was more like 1m 20cm.

Fiji Snake's Smorgasboard Fiji Boas in the wild feed on geckos and other small reptiles when young, and move on to rodents, birds and fruit bats when older. We don't have a reliable source of rodents, so we looked for other ways to supplement their diets now that they are outgrowing the geckos we catch around the house. They start feeding by taking a gecko or two, and then we follow up as they are just finishing the gecko with a chicken heart or pieces of chicken breast. Since we have started doing this they are putting on weight much more quickly than on geckos alone. Gecko's (MOKO), chicken hearts and chicken breast!

Colouring on a wild Kadavu snake. We're seeing different patterns and colours on snakes from different Fijian Islands. Our own pets are from the island of Taveuni and have distinctive zig-zag and diamond-back patterns. This snake is from Kadavu Island and is more irregulalry blotched (and quite pink).