What they eat. In captivity, you can feed it mice every time, and it will happily eat it for the rest of its life. The racer is found in a variety of open habitats, including sagebrush flats, juniper woodlands, chaparral, and meadows. Photo by Simon Wray, ODFW. Racer Coluber constrictor. They can really take the cold. Northern Rubber Boas are adaptable to nearly any sort of habitat but, since they are not very heat tolerant, they are not as likely to be found in open places of warm weather. It’s hard to imagine these docile, slow-moving snakes as predators, but rubber boas eat mammals, birds, reptiles and eggs. Boa Constrictor The Boa Constrictor (Boa constrictor) resides in the Rainforests of Belize, Northern Mexico and Argentina in South America. A basement cold room, or wine fridge can be used for brumating Rubbers. Boa Constrictors can been seen throughout the forest and sometimes in off shore caves. You may claim that you haven’t come across a single rubber boa in your friendly neighborhood pet shop. We cannot stop singing paeans of this beautiful creature! Rubber Boa Diet. Therefore it is best to feed them pink mice, and several at a time. There, it is known as ‘Wowla’ to the natives of Belize. Rubber Boas are secretive, slow-moving, docile snakes, usually found under logs and rocks in either moist or dry forest habitats. In captivity, rubber boas can live 30 years or more. Easy to Feed: Rubber Boas eat primarily on young rodents in the wild while fending off the parents with their blunt tail. The rubber Boa feeds on small mammals and rodents such as shrews, mice and voles. They feed primarily on small mice but also take shrews, salamanders, snakes, and lizards. They only reproduce every two to three years, so juvenile survival must be quite high. Newborn rubber boas tend to overwinter because they’ll refuse to eat until the late spring or summer season. They are known to binge feed and then not eat for a month or two. In the wild, rubber boas eat nestling rodents and lizards. Boa Constrictors have two subfamilies: ‘Boinae’ or true boas and […] I have included a link to the Wikipedia entry for you to see more information on the species. Rubber boas are one of the smaller boa species, adults can be anywhere from 38 to 84 cm (1.25 to 2.76 ft) long; newborns are typically 19 to 23 cm (7.5 to 9.1 in) long. Prefer to spend much of their time in cooler and moist areas like under logs, rocks, and rodent burrows. Rubber boas are constrictors and eat small mammals, especially young mice and shrews. Temps in the upper 40 or low 50's are ideal for rubber boas. During the course of my research, pregnant rubber boas apparently did not eat at all during the year in which they gave birth and might even go for more than 18 months without eating. There are some recordings that they do not eat for about 18 to 20 months, so if your juveniles are like this don’t panic because this is just a normal process for them. That is why they will eat several in one setting. Like other boas, they have no venom and kill by constriction. Northern Rubber Boas are nocturnal hunters. They are primarily nocturnal, but occasionally may be observed sunning on roads, trails, or in open areas.