![]() I have moved him to a 26L tub in racking sytem, I am certain he will be able to stay in this size enclosure his entire life. The male Dwarf Boa is housed separately, he spent the first two years of his life in an 11L Addis tub, he grew very slowly and at 3 years old is only around 70-80cm in length. Both females are housed together and I only separate for feeding and have encountered no problems with keeping them together. I have developed a hatred for wooden cages because of their difficulty to clean and their lack of tolerance to moisture. Another caging option is plastic Boa tubs which I will more than likely be housing my Boas in the very near future. I do not use melamine cages as they cannot take any excess humidity and quickly get water damaged. At three years of age and only between 1.2m and 1.5m long the females were moved into a chipboard terrarium with a glass front measuring 1.2m x 45cm x 45cm, the chipboard was treated with several coats of boiled linseed oil to prevent moisture damage. My females spent the first year of their lives in 11L Addis tubs in a racking system with a hot spot of 26 to 28 degrees, they were then moved into tubs measuring 50cm x 40cm x 20cm in a custom made rack heated to the same temperature. When housing Dwarf Boas you must remember that they grow extremely slowly, especially the males so you will not need a 1.5m long cage by the time they are two years old as you would if you had a normal sized Boa. Interested In Joining An Online Reptile Club? Fill In The Form Below And I Will Send You The Details. The islands on which many Dwarf Boas can be found such as Hog Island, Crawly Cay and Corn Island also experience these seasonal changes and islands often have different climates to the main land often with less rain and battered by storms so Dwarf Boas have to be tough little guys, also there is less prey on islands than on the mainland and wild Dwarf Boas are often very skinny. The Mexican form of Dwarf Boa can experience lows of 18 to 20 degrees in winter, although I would not recommend that you keep your Boas at these temperatures as they are on the extreme end of what most Boas can tolerant. These Boas live mainly in tropical deciduous forests with a hot humid warm season and a colder much drier cold season. In actual fact Dwarf Boas can be found on various islands off the coast of South America and in certain main land localities. When most of us think of Boas natural habitat we think of sweltering hot jungles dripping with humidity. Note that Common Boas have long been a subspecies of the Red Tailed Boa but have recently been given full species status. ![]() Common Boas ( Boa Imperator) evolved east of the Andes Mountains in South America and range as far north as Mexico where you can find a locality of Dwarf Boas. The reason being is that the true Red Tailed Boas ( Boa Constrictor) which come from the Amazon Basin are a different species from the Common Boa, if you actually had a Red Tailed Boa it would cost you way more than the R350 you spent on your Boa at the expo, there are very few people who actually have true Red Tailed Boas in South Africa. Now you may have noticed that I did not refer to my Boas as ” Red Tailed Boas” like most people do. This article will cover my experience with keeping these smaller Boas and their differences from normal Common Boas. These Boas are from a line were the male was a true Dwarf Boa ( locality unknown) and the mother was a normal Common Boa. There are some island Boas and certain mainland localities which remain much smaller.I was lucky enough to aquire two Dwarf Common Boa females and later a male. Not all Common Boas ( Boa Imperator) grow to be nearly 3m long monster snakes weighing 20kg.
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