![]() Using a snake hook when you take your pet out will greatly reduce the chances of you being bit from a feeding response. Check out these hooks: Exo Terra collapsible hook for babies and larger hooks for adults. Gently hook your snake out of its enclosure when you want to hold it. If you are worried about your pet associating food with you, get yourself a good snake hook when you take the pet out. Rainbow Boas are generally a docile snake. Feeding in its home will not make your pet more aggressive or associate you with food. We do recommend feeding in its own enclosure. However, do not handle your snake for several hours before you are going to feed it. If you maintain a humidity level, your snake will be able to shed properly. Scrub the bowl at least once a week to keep bacteria slime from building up. Exo Terras water bowls or Flukers water bowls are good decorative choices or a good ceramic crock dish. Keep a non-porous water bowl in with your Rainbow Boa and make sure they always have clean water. Or if you don't care to remember to mist the cage, an automatic mister like the Exo Terra monsoon or the Reptile fogger are nice options. Rainbow Boas require high humidity in a range between 75-90%. They have a tendency to heat unevenly over too small an area and can cause serious burns. We do not recommend the use of hot rocks. You can also use a rheostat and/or timers to control your heat source. Use a good quality temperature gauge too, like Zoo Meds digital temp gauge or Exo Terras Thermometer to figure out the temperatures in your enclosure. The basking light should be housed in a good quality light dome like Exo Terra and Flukers that has a ceramic housing to tolerate high heat and an on/off switch. You want a heat pad that only covers half the tank (or less). Both of these are placed on the outside, underneath the enclosure. We recommend a Zoo Med heat mat or Exo Terra heat pad that stays on 24/7 to give them a little bit of supplemental heat during the night. The heat pads are usually placed on the hot side with a hide over it. It's a good idea to use a basking light and an under tank heat pad also. At night, it can drop down to 72 ambient temperature. Put one hide there and another hide on the cool side. The hot side basking spot should be at 80-85 ✯. If you want your rainbow to show off it’s colors more put in a light across the whole tank. This way your pet can move back and forth between the different temperatures depending on its needs. All the heat elements should be on one side and the other will then be the cool side. This essentially means you need to provide a hot and cool side to your enclosure. Like all reptiles, they are dependent on external thermoregulation to control their body temperature. Rainbow Boas originate from the Amazon River Basin, so they like it comfortably warm, though they need to be able to cool off if they want to. Zoo Meds wipe out or vinegar and water both work good for cage cleaning. Disinfect the enclosure and change out the bedding at that time. You should only need to clean the whole thing out about once a month. Spot clean the bedding whenever they defecate. The ones that hold some humidity and don’t mold are Zoo Med repti bark, Zilla jungle mix, Zoo Med eco earth, and Zoo Med forest floor. ![]() You can use many types of bedding for your snake. Rainbow Boas are terrestrial snakes, so a tall cage is not necessary. A Rainbow Boa will feel more secure if there is a hide for them on both the cool and warm sides of the enclosure (more about that in the heating section). That is a hide that has some damp moss in it for extra humidity. If you use a glass tank you will want to provide a humid hide. Adults do well in a tank at least 36" x 18" ( Exo Terra Large, or Zilla 30 gal). At a yearling you can step up to an enclosure that is at least 30" x 12" inches (like Zilla critter cage 20 Long) or go to the adult enclosure size. There are several kinds that will work, ie, glass aquariums, snake racks and any of the commercially available, plastic-type reptile cages. At around a year old, you can increase the size of the enclosure. This care sheet is showing the way we found works best for us from our many years of experience of breeding and caring for this species.īrazilian Rainbow Boa babies can start out in small enclosures hatchlings do well in 10 gallon glass aquariums. You will find many ways on the internet on "how to" take care of this animal. Origin: Amazon River Basin of Brazil and the adjacent countries to the north Scientific Name: Epicrates cenchria cenchria BRAZILIAN RAINBOW BOA Caresheet Common Name: Brazilian Rainbow Boa, Rainbow Boa
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