Here is a little tale of an old Hypo male. I call him "Billy G" after the Boa guy I bought him from. Billy G was born, if my aging memory is correct, in 1989:



I just took this picture this morning. He is about 5 1/2' long now.

"Billy G" was acquired originally by Marcia Lincoln and Bill Girden from Dr. David Hardy from Arizona. Dr. Hardy acquired the very first Hypo known while on a trip to Panama back in the 80's. This original Hypo was just a baby when Dr. Hardy first began to care for her. She started making babies in the 80's and Marcia's Hypos were, I believe, from that original female's second litter. I had talked to Bill Girden at the time who told me about these special and different baby Boas. About half the babies had very bright orange tails while about half of them did not. We now know they were Hypos of course but we did not know that back then. Jeff Gee was the first one to identify them as Hypos in about 1993 or so. They called the babies with the bright orange tails appropriately "Orange Tails" at the time that Bill and Marcia acquired theirs. The cost was $100.00 each at that time from Dr. Hardy. Bill and Marcia raised the 2.1 trio they acquired but did not breed them successfully. I acquired them from Marcia in 1994 or 1995. Billy G's sister is actually the grandmother of the first litter of Ghost Boas ever produced. Bill Kirby did that a number of years ago using a male double het for Ghost that Marcia's female produced here for me. This makes "Billy G" the Great Uncle, Great Great Uncle and maybe even the Great Great Great Uncle of many of the Ghost Boa descendants around today. Also, "Billy G's" brother was actually the Hypo to have had the privilege, and pleasure I might add, of being the first Boa to breed the original Monster Tail female. His brother produced the first litter of Monster Tail Hypos back in 2000. "Billy G" did make some babies of his own in 2000. This is one of those babies moments after he was born:



Quite a family legacy but what I really wanted to show was this old male Hypo. Does anyone else know of a male hypo older than "Billy G"?
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