>>Can someone explaint the difference between a BCI and a BCC? I knot that BCC's are much larger. Is there any websites with good information on all of this? I have been looking for quite some time!

Hi,

Yours is a recurring question that rarely fails to get a little bit of sarcasm in answer!

The reason may be because it frustrates some more experienced people (myself included sometimes) who take that information for granted. Scale-counting aside it's fairly obvious to many keepers that a boa from a certain range with so many saddles and some specific colors and other looks and maybe including behaviours is a (put subspecies here). It's an accumulation of small pieces of knowledge so common that there's no easy way to quantify it.

Less experienced keepers who can't themselves quickly see the differences then sometimes become defensive or angry when the Pros won't share the secret or the shortcut to knowing which is which. (there really is no such secret info).

Maybe the so-called experts have some thinking to do to better understand how to quickly describe the differences between a Boa constrictor constrictor and a Boa constrictor imperator. In the meantime if you want to be one of the people who can, with a high degree of accuracy, quickly identify those two subspecies of boas then you should start like most everybody else.. by looking at a lot of Boas. When you've looked at enough then you can join the rest of the people who know the obvious differences but somehow can't easily explain it all to someone who has little experience telling them apart!

My website has some information and many photos that can help you get started seeing the differences between Boa subspecies in nature.

Now as far as some CB boas of unknown or even mixed herirtage.. I'm not sure if their subspecies can be correctly defined. In such a case exactly why would that be so important anyway? Maybe you can answer that question for me?

Thanks for reading my ramblings!
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