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What is your biggest boa.. Please post pics of huge boas.. I seen a 10ft boa that was 70lbs. That was my biggest one I seen, she was thick.. Do they really get 18ft long?? Thats huge.. Wounld love to see pic of large boas. thanks

I believe that the biggest known boa is a suri(????) that was aprox. 12 ft(????). At least I remember reading something like that on here at one time. Someone who knows more may chime in... Jon
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1.1.1 breeding pair blue tongue skinks w/ juv. offspring
1.0.0 Juv. Albino Bullfrog
0.0.2 Giant Pixie Frog (one juv. and one adult)
1.1.0 Clawed frogs
1.1.0 Albino Clawed frogs
0.0.1 Superlight juv Sulcatta
0.0.2 Fly river turtles
0.0.2 Savannah Monitors (one pastel)
0.2.0 juv pastel Columbian boas
1.1.0 monster pink pastel columbian boas
1.2.0 Hypo Hog boas
1.0.0 Hypo boa
1.1.0 Hypo boa babies, Poss. DH sunglow
0.2.0 Hypo poss. DH sunglow
1.0.0 Coral albino boa (my baby)
and
1.2.0 Pomeranians (the wifes babies)

go to www.mccarthyboas.com go to the big boa page the largest one on there that i have seen was the peruvian and man that thing was huge other than that personaly the largest i have seen was 10' 60lbs and that was a columbian female that was about 12 years old never bred

I had a columbian female, she was 10 1/2" and at her prime was 60 plus lbs. Sadly, she passed away this year at 17 years old. Never bred, she was a pet. I saved many of her sheds and keep them on my wall at work. The strings are to show people how the markings stay the same, just get larger.

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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB, selectively bred from good stock)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
12.24 BRB
11.13 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Wow i really like how you kept all the sheddings like that. What did you do to treat and preserve them if anything?

Was not all of them, only the whole ones that were not too soiled if you know what I mean!

All I did was to carefully turn them right side out and straighten. Then pressed them flat under magazines and allowed to dry that way. As they got longer and longer was harder to find an open area to leave them pressed under all those magazines.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB, selectively bred from good stock)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
12.24 BRB
11.13 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

of 18.5 feet for the boa constrictor is based on a specimen killed and taped on the island of Trinidad in the 1940's by Colin Pittendrigh. The measurement was accurate, but the snake had been mis-identified. It turns out that it was actually an anaconda, but this was not revealed until the record had already been accepted by many. The largest boa constrictors currently on record are a few specimens that taped between 14 and 15 feet from the area around southern Colombia and northern Peru.

Kelly

there was one in the classifieds a few weeks ago...a guyana 13 feet long...with pics too.

9' and 60 lbs...

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0.1 c.b.97' 9' 60 lb. common boa "scarlet"
1.0 c.b.02' 6' 15 lb. "hi pink" common boa "maverick"
0.1 c.b.06' 17" firebelly x pastel boa "betty boa"
2 savannah monitors Ozzy & Uggy

1.0 everglades x yellow ratsnake c.b. 04' 4' "pooh"
1.0 c.b.06' redear slider "dweezil"
1.0 c.b.04' emorys ratsnake "zeus"
1.0 Snow Corn "Snowcone"(say it slowly...yes cheesy i know)

"...does it bite?"

13 years old and 10 and a half feet. She's not real heavy only about 45 lbs. never bred

Our biggest girl is 11 years, 9ft and 30 lbs. Doesn't matter how much she eats, 30lbs seems to be her weight no matter what.

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1.1 96, 04 Het Albino - "Suzie" & "Lumpy"
0.1 03 Poss. Het Albino - "Ami"
0.1 05 Super Salmon - "CreamSicle"
0.1 04 Anery Het Snow- "Squelchy"
1.0 04 DH-Sunglow - "Dwayne"
1.0 06 TH-Moonglow - "Gargamel"

Here is my big girl.She is 8.5-9 ft and 35 lbs but by no means a giant. At almost 9 years she is a good healthy adult female, probably about average for a girl her age.Maybe in 5-10 years she'll be considered a very large boa, but in the meantime I think she is beautiful just the way she is.

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1.0 ghost
1.1 albino
0.1 het albino