Collection Update

[CloudtheBoa]

I haven't been on her in a long time and a lot has changed....I moved out of my mom's house to live with my SO, and she had to leave her trailer because the roof was collapsing (which is also why I left when I did, otherwise I would have waited longer). I wanted to leave my snakes with my mom because our current roommate is uncomfortable with snakes, and we don't have much room for them. This worked for a few months, until I learned that not only did my mom let Crona (anery motley boa constrictor) escape - she found him quickly, but put him in Homura's tub (hypo BRB) and Homura is now gone. Whether he ate her, or she escaped, I have no clue. He had a large bulge when I saw him and he was the only one to defecate when I was finally able to bring some of the snakes to the trailer.

I realized I had to do something once I saw Homura was gone, and after my mom told me she wouldn't feed or water my snakes. I was feeding and watering them until my car broke down, and it wasn't until ~2-2.5 months later my mom texts me out of the blue that she hadn't been feeding or watering them and wouldn't do it in the future. I guess her watering the snakes is how Crona and (maybe) Homura escaped, and she just didn't want to deal with that afterwards.

Everyone is doing fine now, so no worries. A few snakes have gotten prey size upgrades (Nymeria is on small rats, Crona on weaned rats, and Sanji should have been upgraded to small rats as well), and should regain any weight they lost during their time without food. No one weighed in any lighter than the last weight I had recorded, but a few were a bit visibly thinner.

A user on another forum was kind enough to temporarily take Bud (ball python), Draco (albino checkered), and Sanji (BRB), and I have 6 of the others with me. Cloud and River are being housed by a local acquaintance, and I'm going to be getting at least one or two T8's so I can shift some snakes around and bring Cloud over here as well.

RIP Homura....


Dominika is one of the ones with me right now, she wasn't worse for the wear, though she was a bit dry. I struggled a bit with the humidity on just aspen, so I switched to EcoEarth, and she's looking better after a shed, but she's definitely always been my most sensitive boa to lower humidity. She always sheds whole pieces, but she always has those lines and dry scales.



She got some odd white spots where her scales were damaged from being dry. Hopefully those will be gone next shed.



Howl is also here.



And Crona.



Tirel as well.



Nymeria (with a shed underneath her).



Demigod is the last of the ones currently with me. He went through a period where he rapidly lost weight, got lethargic, and developed spots on his head. I put him through a short brumation period, and he improved drastically after just a few meals when I took him back out of brumation.

His condition before (notice the dulled colors, spots on his head, and thin body tone):



After maybe 3-4 meals:



And the most current photo I have of him: