on my mind as well. I agree that our hobby is going berserk right now. I mean, it has been a great year for our morph market. We look forward to many new combinations this year; we've seen the Moonglow, Leucistic, and Paradigm boas all in the past 9 months. Anyway to get to the point, I was on the chameleon classifieds the other day, just looking around, and I thought to myself how nice it must be to just be able to relax with the hobby and enjoy the collection without the worry of big morphs and market value. I remember when I admired White�s tree frogs and Leopard geckos as much as I do boas, long before good investment opportunities popped up in the boa and ball python world and before I even knew what shed cycles were and the average length of gestation. Lately, I have felt like the forum has changed a lot. It just seems like a year or two ago people were more focused with community of the boa forum, rather than chewing people out when there toes are stepped on, or refuting a collection or bloodline to someone who feels they have a better snake, or that its worth the argument. It�s shameful to see friends of mine fall off the �face of the boa forum� because of the way things have been recently.

Maybe I'm just really short on sleep (having only 4 hours in 2 days) because of finals. I'd like to see us "Boa People" center a little better and stop treating our collections like investments and treating them as pets. I find it ridiculous to see a 06 animal that�s breeding size already; I mean my dad and I have our own supply of rats and feed weekly, but have never had an animal reach 4-4.5ft in 9 months. Our future gene pool could decline because of boa kills from overfeeding and losing them after only 5-6 years. I know there are many exciting things going on currently with our market, some huge price drops, and some new things to replace the high dollar stuff; not to mention the color and patterns we are going to see soon enough. I think we need a little reality check sometimes, and I know most of you know that there isn't anything more humbling than keeping, raising, and breeding boas. I'd just hate to lose site of that. Alright, I think its time to get off the soap box now. Thanks for listening, if you could make it all the way through the post. Trey

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• The Truth about Blood Boas .... - Johnberry, Wed Dec 13 14:21:50 2006
• The Truth about BOA MORPHS ... - GainesReptiles, Wed Dec 13 16:44:41 2006
• RE: The Truth about BOA MORPHS ... - Djinn, Wed Dec 13 17:26:41 2006
• I Agree with you Bill, I've got stuff... - BoidaeAddiction, Wed Dec 13 18:20:13 2006
• RE: I Agree with you Bill, I've got stuff... - metachrosis, Wed Dec 13 20:22:46 2006
• RE: I Agree with you Bill, I've got stuff... - BoidaeAddiction, Wed Dec 13 21:11:29 2006
• RE: The Truth about BOA MORPHS ... - metachrosis, Wed Dec 13 20:24:00 2006
• RE: The Truth about Blood Boas .... - wstreps, Wed Dec 13 22:19:24 2006