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Crawl Cay, Belize Boas...

Riobravoreptiles Jun 28, 2006 08:03 PM

.. from a litter in 2005, now almost 1 year old.
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I'm very pleased with how these little guys and gals are developing.. these below are a couple of adults...
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Gus
A. Rentfro
RioBravoReptiles.com
www.riobravoreptiles.com

"Quality is not an accident. Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus

Replies (4)

sun_king Jun 28, 2006 09:08 PM

Gus, how is it that that these amazing guys are naturally anery? And they look INCREDIBLE as adults. I would love to be able to bring the morph genes into these guys to keep that size. I think it would do wonders for herptology if people could get all these amazing morphs in a boa that is 5-6 feet long. Many people consider boas among the GIANTS of snakes and this could really help enlighten people and draw them into owning boas.

Joe

Riobravoreptiles Jun 28, 2006 09:39 PM

These boas are not anerythristic (neither are the Caulker Cay boas) though many of them do have reduced pigmentation. They also go through extreme changes in overall tone and contrast depending upon temperatures, time of day or who knows what.

According to at least one observer the Crawl Cay boas are represented by only a handful of animals on their native island. The number of real Crawl Cay births in culture is very small. In my opinion it would be a crime to pimp out these unique boas onto some morph-of-the-hour project.

I like the looks of some of the morphs and I have friends who work with the morphs. These people know the limits of what is responsible and reasonable. Outbreeding rare and unique insular boas just to see what you may get is not reasonable or responsible.. In my opinion.

Have fun, be safe.

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Gus
A. Rentfro
RioBravoReptiles.com
www.riobravoreptiles.com

"Quality is not an accident. Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus

JOEP123 Jun 28, 2006 09:15 PM

My pair get to look as good as those Adults.
Great looking pictures Bus.
Thank you for sharing them,
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Joel Pretz
JP Reptiles

metalpest Jun 30, 2006 11:12 PM

Love that island locality. Great pics of the yearlings! Do you have any more pics of the adults? They look pretty awesome.
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