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kbcmorphs
at Fri Aug 8 21:35:18 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by kbcmorphs ]
Well today was supposed to be a great day, I woke up thinking that I was finally going to get my first jungle boa, but ended up meeting a scammer. I went to this guys pet store to get one of his jungle 100% het albino babies that he breed and he was very uneducated about boas or just a scammer. With my knowledge and all of your help I knew that the boas he pull out weren't jungles. None of them even had the slightest bit of a jungle look to them so I went to the next step, I asked him how many in the littler were jungle and he said 27 so I asked how many were normal and thats where it all went down hill. He explained to me that even though they didn't look aberrant that they all still carried the jungle trait so all his babies were jungles. I then asked about the mom (she was the jungle looking snake) and found out that she was given to him by an older couple who's son went of the Iraq. He then looked on the internet and came up with she must be a jungle $$$. I will admit she does look very good but from seeing her babies I'm sorry to say she's not a jungle and he's going to a show in a couple of weeks to sell them all as jungles. I did try to explain how they are the same as a motley or a hypo and that unless its a super only half the litter will be jungle or hypo or motley he still tried to correct me saying that he got all his info from the Peter Kalh web site and then I asked him so I can take a normal looking boa out of a hypo litter (half being hypo and half being normal) and breed it to a normal and get hypos he didn't have an answer for that. So I left depressed that I didn't get a jungle but I am happy that I did know enough not to get scammed.
Thank you all for the added help.
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MUST READ (almost scammed today) - kbcmorphs, Fri Aug 8 21:35:18 2008