This is my first time posting here! Although I browse Kingsnake.com a lot!

There is someone local with an add for baby Hogg Islands available for $100 each. Is this something to consider at this price and as a first time boa? (I've kept reptiles for 15 years and have other snakes, just never a boa) Is it really that rare of a boa? I keep reading that it is because it is assumed extinct in the wild? But then why would someone sell them for $100. Yet I don't see them available or bred on any sites that come up. What do you think.

They are really pretty, grey motley, pale. Not the bright cross-breed morphs people are blurring into Hoggs.

I am a ball/royal girl. If I do buy one of these Hoggs, I'd get a male and a female to possibly breed. But I could easily put $200 toward a ball morph instead.

I've stalled for five days and the lady wants to know tomorrow if I'm coming to take a couple or not. Just curious on the 411 of Hogg Island's in terms of supply, demand, rareity, and herp community interest.

Thanks so much!
Salihah : )

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