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CITES II
Boidae

Calabar Burrowing Boa

Calabaria reinhardtii

Part of this is not on the page we cite. We opened it on 10 Aug 2026 and some of the degrees above are not stated there. The values above may still be right, but we cannot show you where they came from, and nobody here has checked them against a second source. Anything about a sick animal goes to a qualified exotic vet, not to a page. cites.unia.es

Photograph: Marius Burger · CC0

Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.

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https://keepr.pet/husbandry/en/calabaria-reinhardtii

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warm end32 °C
cool end26–27 °C

The numbers

Thermal gradient

152025303540 °C
26–27°Cool side
32°Warm side

A real gradient, 32°C warm against 26–27°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 °C / cool 26-27 °C

Diet
pink mice and rat pups

Identity

Origin

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
warm 32 °C / cool 26–27 °C

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.

Common questions

Why did it roll into a ball?

That is its defence. It tucks its head in the middle and presents the blunt tail instead, which looks like a head. It is harmless and rarely bites people.

What does it eat?

In the wild it specialises in nestling rodents, so we usually feed pinky or fuzzy mice. Some individuals are fussy, so ask what yours is already taking.

Is it active?

It is a burrower and mostly nocturnal, so expect it to be under the substrate during the day. Deep soft bedding is essential.

Is it easy to keep?

The setup is easy, but the feeding can be the tricky part with imported animals. Buy one that is already feeding well in captivity.

What it needs

A heat sourcebecause temp — warm 32 °C / cool 26-27 °C
A thermostat to regulate itbecause temp — warm 32 °C / cool 26-27 °C
A thermometerbecause temp — warm 32 °C / cool 26-27 °C
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet states no size

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.

Sources

blogs.thatpetplace.com — lu le 2026-08-04kingsnake.com — lu le 2026-08-04speciesplus.net — lu le 2026-08-08cites.unia.es — lu le 2026-08-08

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What this sheet states

46%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 3 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: humidity instrument and audit, enclosure size audit, day/night engine and awake count on the globe, the diet section. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

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.