Jeff_Favelle
12-16-04, 05:41 AM
But I HATE it when this happens. Fed my biggest Ball female (normal) the 2nd biggest rat I've ever seen (see Carpet forum for biggest, LOL!), and, as always, couldn't shove the Rubbermaid back in!! They always over-coil and she was 4 inches above the rim of the bin! It was some mighty fine shifting of substrate and furniture to get this sucker back in, LOL!
http://members.shaw.ca/galleryc/eat.jpg
And the weird thing was, some of the adult female Bals went nuts over food tonight! I thawed out 120 rats tonight. On the way to feeding the boas, I pass by the BP racks. And everytime I did, I would hear a "thud. I was like "did I put some Carpets in the BP rack by mistake"? LOL! Sure enough, as soon as I opened a bin, out came a huge female BP like a damn cobra! Of the 17 I tried (that's all the rats I had left!!), 15 adult females ate! It was nuts. I dont' know why this surprises me, as it happens every year, same time. Its just weird how I could have offered yesterday or the day before for hours on end and not a single one would take a rat. Today, they went ballistic.
Crummy pics, and then the batteries went toast. But you get the gist. Moral? Everyone, try and feed you female BP's tonight (well not tonight, its 4am now)!!!
http://members.shaw.ca/galleryc/eat_alt1.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/galleryc/eat_alt2.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/galleryc/eat.jpg
And the weird thing was, some of the adult female Bals went nuts over food tonight! I thawed out 120 rats tonight. On the way to feeding the boas, I pass by the BP racks. And everytime I did, I would hear a "thud. I was like "did I put some Carpets in the BP rack by mistake"? LOL! Sure enough, as soon as I opened a bin, out came a huge female BP like a damn cobra! Of the 17 I tried (that's all the rats I had left!!), 15 adult females ate! It was nuts. I dont' know why this surprises me, as it happens every year, same time. Its just weird how I could have offered yesterday or the day before for hours on end and not a single one would take a rat. Today, they went ballistic.
Crummy pics, and then the batteries went toast. But you get the gist. Moral? Everyone, try and feed you female BP's tonight (well not tonight, its 4am now)!!!
http://members.shaw.ca/galleryc/eat_alt1.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/galleryc/eat_alt2.jpg