The snow is rarely available on the market because it is 2 homozygous traits in one. (the albino and the anerythristic traits)

To end up with snow boas is a fairly long process and can take many attempts to achieve the result of producing a snow boa.

The way they are produced is you breed an albino and an anerythristic boa together. The litter they produce will be double heterozygous for albino and anerythristic. You then breed a pair of the double hets to one another and you will get a 1 in 16 chance of producing a snow, and since the average number of neonates for a first time breeder female is around or under 20 you have a low shot of ending up with a snow boa.

As for price, I saw a few last year for $3,500.00
I imagine that this year we will see more of them available then in prior years, and also I won't be surprised to see them drop below the 3000 price range. (not all, but a few should go for that this season)
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Randall L Turner Jr.
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• Snow boas? Why do I see so few of them and how much are they? - viper69, Fri Apr 30 01:34:35 2004
• RE: Snow boas? Why do I see so few of them and how much are they? - Randall_Turner, Fri Apr 30 01:43:07 2004
• RE: Snow boas......$3500.00? (more) - Raven01, Fri Apr 30 07:47:12 2004
• Shows seem to have higher then market pricing..more - Randall_Turner, Fri Apr 30 12:30:28 2004
• RE: Snow boas? Why do I see so few of them and how much are they? - viper69, Mon May 3 19:53:47 2004
• someone else asked this not too long ago and... - carl3, Fri Apr 30 10:40:21 2004
• RE: 2 REASONS, IMO................................... - Jeremy Stone, Fri Apr 30 11:43:47 2004
• RE: 2 REASONS, IMO................................... - ksshane, Fri Apr 30 11:57:06 2004
• Crosses fingers...GOOD LUCK!..np - Randall_Turner, Fri Apr 30 12:28:51 2004