Dave,.....to tell you the truth, I really am strictly a colubrid guy, but over the years, I've had some other things too. I didn't go out of my way to buy the Boas I have right now either, that's for sure.



Many years ago when I was at a reptile show, my girlfriend wanted a pet snake to mess with. So while I was off seriously looking for other stuff for my colubrid projects(milks at the time), she mentioned that she wanted a baby boa. So we saw a table that had possible hets(for albino)on it, and I told her for a few extra bucks she might as well get a poss.het instead, being as albinos were $10,000 bucks at the time.



Well, it didn't take long(as I expected) for the novelty to wear off, and guess who ended up with it..LOL!



So a few years ago, I had a lone male Andean milk I had no breeding plans for, and there was a pet shop not far away that I've sold snakes to in the past, and they had a really nice light, clean Colombian neonate boa there. I asked them if they would trade me for the milk, and they agreed. But I only wanted to do it if it was a female. So I sexed it, and lo and behold, it was indeed a female, so at least I now had a pair, instead of two mouths to feed that where doing nothing at all for me.



So now that she is a big girl now, I put them together many months ago, and I think she is starting to show signs of being gravid.



So anyway, that is how I ended up with this pair of boas..LOL!



Here's a pic of the female not long after I got her in January 2006, and another pic that was taken of her just a few months ago.





~Doug






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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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