The numbers
Thermal gradient
A real gradient, 32–35°C warm against 24–27°C cool, so the animal chooses. The sheet states no separate night figure.
Why
Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.
The sheet stateswarm 32-35 °C (90-95 °F) / cool 24-27 °C (75-80 °F) / night Heat off at night
Humidity
The sheet states30-40% + one humid hide
Identity
Adult size
The size the sheet states for a grown animal. This sheet gives a figure per sex; the one drawn is marked.
Why
Two drawings, because they answer two questions. The silhouette is at true scale against a 1.75 m person: it says how big this animal actually is, which no number does for someone who has never seen one. The bar under it is logarithmic and shared by every sheet here, so a 2 cm isopod and a 4 m python both stay readable on the same axis and two species can be compared at a glance.
Morphs
7 morphs, with how each one is inherited. 1 of them carry a documented welfare cost, and those are listed first. A morph list that hides this sells a pattern and says nothing about what it costs the animal.
Enclosure and conditions
Enclosure
Drawn from the stated numbers. Only what the sheet states is drawn inside.
Why
The rectangle carries the exact width-to-height ratio of the figures above it, and the ruler under it places that width on the 0–250 cm scale every sheet here shares, so two species still compare at a glance. Nothing is added that the sheet does not name: a lamp drawn on a sheet that never mentions one would be invented equipment. What the sheet leaves out is listed rather than left blank, because an empty tank reads as « none needed ».
The sheet states75 × 30 × 30 cm (30×12×12 in) adult
What your climate adds
This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.
Diet
Feeding rhythm
Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window. This sheet states a figure for each age, so each age has its row.
Why
The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56. A young animal's row is drawn only where the sheet gives one: working it out by dividing the adult interval would be inventing a ration.
The sheet statesMice (adults may take weaned rats) · Every 7–10 days
Behaviour and handling
Reproduction
Common health problems
When to see a vet
Good to know
- Spends ~90% of life buried, eyes on top of the head to ambush from sand.
- One of the smallest, most beginner-friendly boas.
- Popular morphs include anery, albino, paradox and snow.
Common questions
Why do I never see it?
It's a burrower: normal to stay hidden in substrate.
Does it get big?
No: one of the smallest pet boas.
Deep substrate really needed?
Yes: essential for welfare.
What it needs
Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation.
- Enclosure 75×30×30
- Heat mat + thermostat
- Deep aspen substrate
- Humid hide
- Small water bowl
- Thermometer/hygrometer
- F/T mice
Sources
Others in this group
What this sheet states
Every field this product runs on is stated here. That is not a claim that the values are right: it says what the sheet states, not whether it is true. Whether a human has read it is the badge at the top of this page.
UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.