My opinion is if you can buy captive bred then do it. There is not much if any differance in color and pattern with captives and imports. Unless you are importing a morph or a to die for BCC then I would buy captive bred. Imports can be very shy or very aggressive, they tend to come in with internal and external parasites, some may take well to captive life while others will not. Some will only feed at night when nobody is around and others will not eat at all or regurge. You can still find boas that look like the wild ones that are captive born. I own some imports and one of them has been great and the other took a few years for her to adapt to captive life.
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True Redtails

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• Problems With Imports - kimusubi, Sat Oct 22 23:27:16 2005
• RE: Problems With Imports - Trueredtails, Sat Oct 22 23:55:47 2005
• RE: Problems With Imports - kimusubi, Sun Oct 23 00:05:59 2005
• RE: Problems With Imports - mci, Sun Oct 23 00:19:43 2005
• RE: Problems With Imports - metachrosis, Sun Oct 23 10:31:12 2005
• Speak for yourself, nitwit - mci, Mon Oct 24 09:11:22 2005
• RE: Speak for yourself, nitwit - metachrosis, Mon Oct 24 10:45:22 2005
• take a genetics class some time, you might learn something - mci, Mon Oct 24 17:55:07 2005
• RE: take a genetics class some time, you might learn something - metachrosis, Mon Oct 24 23:34:19 2005
• I don't need to "assume" anything - mci, Thu Oct 27 20:25:23 2005
• RE: Problems With Imports - Trueredtails, Sun Oct 23 00:42:31 2005
• RE: Problems With Imports - kimusubi, Sun Oct 23 01:09:20 2005
• By the way - kimusubi, Sun Oct 23 01:23:55 2005
• RE: By the way - Trueredtails, Sun Oct 23 18:17:43 2005
• RE: By the way - kimusubi, Sun Oct 23 19:56:55 2005
• RE: Problems With Imports - Caden, Mon Oct 31 09:49:01 2005