Tom Huff worked very closely with the Jersey zoo and the Hope zoo on the subflavus breeding project. For multi reasons the Hope zoo, or Jamaican government reneged on repopulating the island with the boas.
Most of the neonates found their way in to the private sector in Canada and in Europe. And even a few ended up in the States, one way or another. I would hazard a guess and say that one would be hard pressed to find unrelated bloodlines in captivity.
There are still quite a few spread out in private collections in Canada, but not everybody airs their business in public.
I think they are nice snakes, not the top of my list for insulars however.
After Picton was disbanded, some animals went to Granby Zoo, and some others went to a private boa foundation in Granby, though I have never been able to prove that place ever existed.
I am more interested in what happened to Mr. Huff's Ragged Island boas...those are one snake that tops the list.
I had a friend in Canada that used to breed eastern Indigos, he produced 96 in one year, but was always good for at least twenty - thirty...this was in the mid to late 80's, they were all sold in Canada, Where are they now? I'm not surprised that insulars are hard to find, even if they were once imported by the 1000's.

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• First subflavus is in - PhilippeLamarre, Sat Jun 20 00:22:58 2009
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• Phil - here's a nice subflavus website - prprjp, Sat Jun 20 21:09:27 2009
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• RE: Phil - here's a nice subflavus website - prprjp, Sat Jun 20 21:30:59 2009
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• RE: Phil - here's a nice subflavus website - kingtrop, Sun Jun 21 11:16:49 2009
• RE: Phil - here's a nice subflavus website - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sun Jun 21 17:48:23 2009
• RE: Phil - here's a nice subflavus website - kingtrop, Sun Jun 21 22:40:00 2009
• RE: Phil - here's a nice subflavus websi - PhilippeLamarre, Sat Jun 20 22:51:57 2009
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