Training Rainbow Boas: Training Tuesday 22 December 2020
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- Опубліковано 21 гру 2020
- Our four Rainbow Boas working to earn reinforcement this week. Epicrates maurus and Epicrates cenchria are typically shy and less active than the pythons and colubrids we usually feature. Watch and comment what differences you notice in the way they behave.
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This is so awesome to see. Definitely subscribing. Thanks for sharing.
I love this video. They are an intelligent species but I feel like that teaches them to be very skeptical. It’s cool to see their response to the training and will be interesting to follow over a couple more years too.
I am amazed: my female brb stays completely hidden until around 1900hrs. She fully emerges only minutes after lights out at 2100hrs, after which she is very active indeed. I generally feed her at around 2300hrs. I very much doubt that my brb would come out of her hide/s at other times. These snakes display very interesting behaviours - vastly different from carpet pythons, in my experience.
I agree. They’re very different.
I have 2 ball pythons, one of them is only a hatchling and I can see him getting trained but the other one... I open a bottle of wine every time she eats to celebrate...I don't know how I could ever get anywhere at all with her unless the reinforcement is a bath, she loves having warm baths in the sink way more than food, but she has a humidity box , so it's not like she needs it. She just seems to enjoy floating in warm water while the other guy just wants to get out. We always do these things with them at different times because I don't know if they'd like each others company and one is much smaller than the other. We don't want to breed, they're just pets.
I'm going to put UV lights for both of them (they don't share enclosure) and hopefully it will improve her feeding response. She gets out everyday and is quite interactive for the most part, she likes climbing up and down the stairs and seems curious about stuff, just not interested in food. It's pretty frustating, to be honest. If UV light doesn't work I don't know what to try next. Should we just leave her alone? She seems to enjoy getting out even more than the other guy who would eat his grandmother given the chance...Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Many of our snakes comes to find freedom very reinforcing and even bypassing food to explore sometimes. It’s normal for pythons to go long periods of time without food and some may only eat a few times a year in the wild. Females have the added consideration of reproductive cycles which can effect their appetite. I don’t feed on any schedule, I only feed mine when they’re behaving in a way suggesting they’re actively seeking a meal. Older animals will eat less often than younger ones too. If her body condition is good, her behavior is normal, her climate is optimal, and she’s had clear fecal checks then I wouldn’t worry about her not eating. How often are you offering her food?
@@LoriTorrini She's a year and a half old so I offer food roughly every 10 days when she eats and once a week when she doesn't. I really appreciate you answering. It's pretty nerve-wracking. We've only just started keeping snakes and she's a rehome so I was worried I'm missing something I should be doing since her previous owners said she ate regularly for them. I have read about this problem happening to a lot of other people too and I was really interested to know what your thoughts were. I only found your channel 3 days ago and I'm really glad I came across it.
@@lagestita Make sure you watch the videos on Behavior-Based feeding that I recently uploaded. They’re short courses. We work with two Python regius here. One is a year old and the other is about 15 months old. I only feed them about every 2-3 weeks because that’s when they act hungry. I don’t even offer food if they’re not out snd visible, demonstrating species typical hunting behavior.
@@LoriTorrini Wow, ok thank you! I'll do that now. Thanks again.
You need to do a house tour of snakes you are working with. I found you because of your work with Carpet and Bredl’s Pythons. Then I saw you working with Corn Snakes and SD Retics. Now, False Water Cobras and Rainbow Boas!! What all are you working with there? Or what AREN’T you working with, might be the question. Lol
Morelia are my personal passion and focus. I work with other species to help progress the hobby in regard to training, enrichment, and progressing care. I will do a tour in a few months. We’re putting new enclosures up now for juveniles that are growing so we’re remodeling as we speak! I’ll do a community post of the species we have here. I know I have a graphic of that!
Agreed, I love the variety and seeing the differences between individual snakes and personalities, as well how different species approach training.
HI, could you please tell me what the green plastic thing the snake in the top left is going in and out of. looks like a fantastic thing for my guys and girls to play in. thanks
Oh. That’s a cat toy. It’s from the company Catit.usa.catit.com/shop/senses-2-food-tree/