My little rubber boa :)

[Andy_G]

Just a fun fact: both CB and WC rubber boas will not eat until they have been brumated. After that, they eat pretty readily. So if you wanted to get a neonate, ALWAYS buy last year's.

[pet_snake_78]

I had some luck getting WC ones to eat lab mice after I washed them with soap and water. They will eat pinkie voles and deer mice much more readily than lab mice. One guy raises deer mice just for them plus catches a few voles now and then. He's kept them since the 60s, no issues with parasites etc.

[MM1]

Wasn't it a rubber boa that was documented to have lived for at least 57 years. I have to find that article/documentation. I remember reading a biologist's record of a rubber boa that was wild caught and released, then caught again and lived in captivity over that span of time.

[MM1]

Here it goes:

Life History of RAAB Female #1

She may have been even older than I thought.

[REM955]

Originally Posted by Andy_G

Just a fun fact: both CB and WC rubber boas will not eat until they have been brumated. After that, they eat pretty readily. So if you wanted to get a neonate, ALWAYS buy last year's.

Perhaps asking a hard question, but why is this?

[ThirteenRavens]

My understanding is that they are born late in the year and don't/won't eat until early spring? This could be wrong but from what I've read that's what stuck out...I thought it was odd that they would go so long without eating right after being born but they are born so late in the year that they pretty much go straight into brumation, or almost.