Well to answer your first question and by going by the looks of the photo alone it appears to be some sort of BCC/BCI cross that has an aberrant pattern and is either Anery or the photo is slightly washed out? The snake appears to be a bit over fed but other then that is a really awesome looking Boa.

As far as being a tiger Boa? If it was sold to you as one then ok, but they were originally from a specific locality of BCI until the name was bastardized like the Jungle Boas are, by others who bred aberrant boas and wanted to call them the unreasonably popular names such as Jungle or Tiger Boas. The boa in the picture appears to be prettier then most of the Tigers that I have seen. The saddles appear to be more peaked and it does not look (in the photo) to have that Central American locality burnt orange color.

Of course a lot depends on the color and quality of my screen, your camera and the flash of the picture, but I would guess that this boa was originally an aberrant baby from some one’s breedings or imported that way and if it has proven to be genetic may be much different then the tiger name would suggest.

It is a beautiful snake either way, but to answer your second question, I have no idea what the tiger babies will sell for this season the only thing I can suggest to you is that you set price for your babies based on what you would be happy to get for them and not worry about what others are selling them for. If you are too high, your babies won’t sell and you can adjust the price then, if you are too low then your babies will sell out quickly the price you had sold them for was what you were happy with anyway and you don’t have to feed and care for an entire litter of babies for several months.

Good luck on the babies
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"

Hopkins Holesale Herps

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