Pacific Boa Constrictor Snakes (Candoia bibroni bibroni)

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!

Magenta with clear eyes, after shedding skin. He's very pale in this pic: he can change to a very dark brown at will. It seems to depend what colour of branch or hide I put in their tank. Often he's dark brown when I get him out and over half an hour of handling will pale down to this almost pink colour.

Rifraf and Magenta on a piece of mangrove root. They like this as it has a lot of nooks and crannies for wedging themselves into, and they sleep on this a lot. Aplogies for the few droppings you can see: it was just being taken out for cleaning.

Very nice boa head pic! riesenschlangen.ch Fotogalerie Kopfaufnahmen Boas

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Stuart and DIXIE, one of Peter's babies.

Tania and one of the snakes at Paradise Taveuni reosrt in Fiji.