Gray, I am sorry to hear about your loss. I have a somewhat similar experience from a few years back. One of my big females, she was 14 at the time and had an accident breaking out of her cage when she was 5; she ended up getting a huge gash mid-body from her dorsal scales to almost the top of her back. The resulting scar was about 8 inches long and it cut deep enought that she needed medical attention. Anyway, 9 years later she breds successfully for the first time in her life and I actually get to witness the whole thing. Well to make a long story short, she had 27 slugs and 7 babies. Of the 7 babies only one even remotely looked full term, the others were tiny and virtually uncolored. They all ended up passing away and the mother developed an infection somewhere in her reproductive tract and died 2 weeks later. This made me so upset that I sold all of my adult boas and concentrated on colubrids. It was'nt until someone gave me a HUGE female Colombian the next year that I decided to work with them again. Since then, I have changed my focus back to BCI, which was my first pet snake and I couldn't be happier.



I wish you all the best an am sorry ofr your loss. take care. Derek

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Derek Roberts

Sonoran Reptile Breeders

sonoranreptile@cox.net

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