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This is kinda fun.

I promise to work on multiple pics posting by next week.

These first two are a JC '04 male. He didn't get to experience the scourching Texas sun last week due to shed and is cleared up from the opaque but hasn't shed yet.

DC '05 male. This little fella shed the day after the last photo shoot. BTW, his eyecap is NOT retained it's the angle!?!

..in a KS classified to try and sell him with no interest last fall due to his *$!#!*! attitude. Needless to say, no one seemed to want him. Strangely, he has been on his best behaviour since that time and even colored up a little nicer. I'm glad to still have him. He is another of my TF males from '05 and the ONLY snake with a real name instead of a bunch of letters and numbers.

Meet Mr. Fleck:

..is the choice mate for my first female raised nearly to maturity from a neonate. I am currently planning to pair him up with my first kept '03 female. After my very first experience at having a litter I bought my first pair of babies in late December of '03....this has started a snowball effect in my insatiable (sp?) appetite for BRB's.

He was in shed last piture round although I posted him anyway.

It seems that the 2 to 3 year waiting period has come to be and that I now realize it more likely to be a minimum or 3 to 4 years for all that I raise. Thinking that I feed moderately....I don't see how how it's possible to breed younger than 3.

.....lots to learn still, and the learning is what I find the most exciting!

That offering them for sale works every time. I have a female gthat gave me nothing but mostly slugs and a few stills for her first three breedings. I said I was done with this one and had her for sale at a show as a proven NON-breeder, aka pet only. Had a couple of buyers interested including one that called a couple of times after the show....nobody came up with the cash. Next season, what was I to do with her....segregate her and make the breeding cage smaller or just let her roam with everyone else....I decided to just throw her in with the rest and that season she gave me the largest viable litter I've ever had 31 healthy babies, no slugs or stills. WOOHOO, the next year she slowed down a little, only 26 healthy with 5 slugs. My third largest litter...WOOHOO again. So in two years she produced 57 babies, she's now my second most prolific breeder. Go figure!!!!

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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)
2.7 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (adult breeders)
2.5 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (sub-adult from 2004)
4.8 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (sub-adult from 2005)
2.1 Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 Het for Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI Albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Salmon / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Salmon (possible super)
1.0 BCI Albino het stripe
1.0 BCI Salmon
0.1 BCI Ghost
0.1 BCI Super salmon, possible jungle
1.0 BCI Salmon, possible jungle
0.1 BCI Super Ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats