Thats part of what lead me to this idea, having a suriname and a colombian the same lenght in hand and realizing how much smaller the surinams scales are than a colombian. One full grown adult boa vs another full grown adult boa regardless of their length usualy have about the same sized scales, so the number of the scales makes a difference.

I think it's part of the reason BCC have markings that are so well defined on the edges, scales are smaller and more of them. Untill they actualy reach a fully adult lenght and then the patterns have more of an average look. A 6ft suriname may be breedable but really is a subadult.

Some dwarf Mexican boas only have mid dorsal counts of 55, (less than 5ft) my 10 year old hogs count from 70-75 7.5 ft, I have 6-7 year old colombians that are 8-9.5ft and have counts between 80-88 and my biggest suriname counts 102 and is 10ft, 6inches at 7 years old.
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Ed Lilley, www.constrictorsnw.com

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• It seems to work.. - PanamaRed, Sun Mar 5 12:22:08 2006
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• Thinking "outside of the box.." - dmac, Sun Mar 5 14:41:09 2006
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