>>Since you mentioned Germany, Austria and the UK:

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>>In Germany there are some handful people who claim that they own Crawl Cay boas. Some of these animals look that different to Crawl Cays that I ask myself whether the owner is stark blind or stark stupid to even publish it on a website.

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>>Others have crosses who IMHO consist of a Crawl Cay boa and another form of a Central American boa.

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>>In Germany there is only one line of true Crawl Cay Boas. The original animals (wildcaught)were imported from the US in the early 90ies by Volker Franz who produced the first German litter. The second litter was produced by Verena Knietsch in 1998.

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>>As a matter of fact the animals from this bloodline are the only true Crawl Cays in Germany, probably even in Europe.

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>>In Austria I don't know of a single person who has a true Crawl Cay boa. There might be some persons who bought some of the fake German Crawl Cay boas since Austria is adjacent to Germany.

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>>Half a year ago I was offered an alleged Crawl Cay boa from the UK. A strong resemblance was visible, but the animal hasn't had the long shaped head and the very strong muscle tonus of the ture Crawl Cay boas (you would think you seize a bar of iron when you touch one). I doubt the UK bloodline, to be honest. These animals also look like another Central American boa (e.g. El Salvador phase, who has a similar pattern) was crossed with.

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>>As to your boa I don't want to allow myself a judgement. The resemblance in pattern and head shape is there. A further evaluation only from a photo would be careless.







I have to agree with you. My Crawl has traceable lineage. I've been offered several "crawl cay boas" that were nothing more than hog x columbian crosses or nicaraguan bci. This is why I'm so leery of "crawl cay morphs" nowadays.



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