The female is an F3 of my line and will be 5 years old this year, if this takes it will be her 2nd litter. She is 5 feet 4 inches long and weighs under 5KG at peak weight. Her partner is an F2 of our line and at age 4-1/2 is 46 inches long and weighs well under 2KG.

The pairs are supplied with a substrate heat source time-controlled to induce a daily temperature rise and nightime cool-down. The current cycle attempts a 20% reduction in the overall thermal-cycle from highs experienced in mid-year. The (NTL) overnight low temperature in the room was 68 degrees (f).. mid-body temp on the female when this photo was taken at 7:00AM today was 74(f) and rising.

This would be what I call a premium pairing. Both animals display very good color and pattern confirmation but are pretty in different ways. One is overall more pale, the other more colorful and with a higher pattern density (HPD). By selecting dissimilar pairs for breeding we hope to make very pretty boa, but with a high percentage of the genetic potential of the progenitors of the line.

Cross your fingers for me on this (I'll take all the help I can get).

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Gus
A. Rentfro
RioBravoReptiles.com
www.riobravoreptiles.com

"Quality is not an accident. Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus

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