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Originally Posted by Minkness
No open sore or cuts from what I can see. Just a bump. And I'm not sure what you mean about AC in the room. It's got a vent and is connected to central heat/air, which the room has to have if I am to be able to regulate temps at all. Otherwise the heat would sky rocket.
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Ah. I was envisioning an A/C unit. Didn't realize you had central.
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Originally Posted by Minkness
Ok, improved her enclosure a bit. More hiding places, that are also smaller than the log she had, and 2 climbing things. I also sealed the screen with tape but secured the edges with glue so no corners can come loose!
How long does it usually take to see improvement of the bump once they have stopped rubbing?
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Not sure how bad her rub was compared to your boa's, but it took my retic 4 or 5 shed cycles before her nose rub went away. At one point, a portion of it fell off and scabbed over, but now you can't tell she ever rubbed her nose. She didn't initially break the skin.
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Originally Posted by Andy_G
I respectfully disagree with getting the biggest tub possible and cluttering it and i'll explain why. Baby boas will do better in a smaller tub, and putting a new one such as that will encourage rubbing, not discourage it. I see no point in creating more to clean and therefore more time bothering the baby doing so. I always kept littermates together in small groups on moist paper towel in shoe box size bins until their first shed when I would seperate them for feeding and they'd get their own so I am not confident that is a significant stressor... A very active baby boa is usually a stressed one I have found, and a baby's very arboreal nature (although boas are semi-arboreal, babies are even more so) is in order to feel more secure while exposed. The fact that boas have a slower metabolism and are purely ambush predators by nature would indicate that they would prefer to preserve energy. I also think thag cooler air coming from an A/C would "slow down" the boa and make it more sluggish, not the other way around. Excessive heat as I mentioned would more likely be a stressor. You mentioned mites and they will trigger rubbing BIG TIME.
You know what you're doing as far as new acquisitions go Logan, just see if you can avoid using any screen for now and monitor the bumps for changes and do the usual leave alone and feed after a week, etc. Sometimes these small abcesses are benign and take care of themselves but monitor it.
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I haven't found that to be true, but I also haven't ever run across a rubber before. I offer all my snakes more room than the bare minimum, and they seem to benefit from it. When I say a snake is active, I don't mean it's excessively active. I mean it's regularly coming out at the time appropriate for its species and cruising around, which is not indicative of stress. A snake that sits in one spot, never once moving, even during the time of day its species is normally active, is just as stressed or unhealthy as one that is excessively active.
For a rubber maybe my info is off, but I generally put all my babies in as large of clear tubs as I can find that have latches, and I've never had a problem. My anery motley did take some adjustment after being a blacked-out rack system, having been nippy but after a couple weeks he's calmed right down. He's got lots of cover, though.
I wouldn't say the A/C affects their metabolisms, just that cold air flowing over them doesn't really feel all that nice. Like putting our hands in lukewarm water after playing in the snow all day. When they cool off, they'll stop moving, but I've found initially it actually causes them to become frantic.
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