What made you choose to breed amaretto after her murder attempts? She did make some gorgeous babies!!!!
She's not an aggressive boa (those are incredibly rare, in my experience). She IS the most food motivated snake I have, and small things will trigger her into food mode very easily. I think her going after the boys in the past were almost all food triggers.
I bought her as a subadult back in 2014 from the originator of the line and he tends to feed heavy. She was a solid 6' at 3yrs. I don't feed as heavy, and I think maybe there were some unintended consequences there with feeding schedules that could've set something off in her brain.
This season I made sure she was VERY well fed going into the season, made sure to pull Maraschino before there was any food in the room, and was able to successfully avoid all her triggers. Mara was older, bigger, and more confident this year and was happy to give it a go, and she was content to let him.
I fed her through being gravid, but in the last month or so the babies drain them tremendously. The baby incident could've been that she felt she was too depleted. It could've been because she's an older girl and she's at a different point in her life than a younger snake. It could've been because I was there, and she associates me with food. I don't really know.
To sum it up - I believe I'm dealing with particular quirks specific to one animal, and not necessarily a generational behavioral issue.
