Now for a more complete report on the latest litter to pop at The Boa Black Hole!

This long anticipated litter has finally arrived! This now proven Super Ghost female:



Has done a great job delivering a litter in her own time and not mine! LOL

She spend three days clearing and guarding a spot up on her shelf, over toward the left side for the perfect location to deliver her new puppies! Instead of dropping them up there in the corner, she dropped most of them into the air off the shelf onto a pile of Aspen she had mounded up on the lower level.



Crazy Boa...

I know some of you are far more perfect at breeding your Boas than I, and that you not only breed every single female you ever try to breed, but additionally, you do not allow your females to produce any slugs. I'm not that good yet though.

Three slugs too...



But still a beautiful site to behold!



One really interesting little factoid about this litter is that the male VPI T-Pos that sired this litter was from a special letter that Tracy Barker produced. Tracy had obtained an imported Colombian T-Pos male that she had hoped was compatible with her already well established "VPI T-Pos" bloodline. That imported male was bred to a Het from the established bloodline. That litter proved out! That now new blood, was imported and completely unrelated was actually the same mutation. The male that fathered these babies born here today was from that proving litter. So he is the product of breeding completely unrelated animals. Zero inbreeding. Cool huh!?



I must admit that these "Triple Het VPI T-Positive MoonGlow/SnowGlow" babies are about ten times nicer than I could have imagined they would be too!



I noticed another REALLY interesting thing too...



I know. Some of you were born with this knowledge, and I am not telling you anything you didn't already know. But I learned something today. I have NEVER placed a tub in the cage for a female to have her babies inside it. But this Ghost female was sooooo seemingly distressed moving everywhere looking for that perfect spot, that I decided to put a tub in her cage. A clean tub with clean aspen, that I soaked, was placed in her cage the day before she gave birth. I removed it the next day as she did not seem to be interested in the tub at all.



When the time came for me to pull these babies from the cage, I simply used that tub with the wet aspen instead of my famous blue baby Boa bucket to transport these puppies up the nursery.



I just put the babies in the tub. Brought the tub upstairs. Started to take a bunch of pictures which you have viewed here, when I noticed these new babies were burrowing like crazy in the soaked aspen!



I know... I know... Some of you that breed every single female you ever try to breed and have never even seen a slug in the flesh have known about this since your own conception. But today, I learned something new and exciting! I think I am going to use this soaked aspen trick again!



This no doubt will prove to be a great way to clean babies up! You can't see it right now... but I do have a huge smile on my face!

What a fun litter!


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Jeff Ronne Sr
The Boaphile
Director USARK

Originator of Boaphile Plastics
The Boaphile Boa Site

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