I have bp morphs but I’ve been thinking about getting a female albino. I don’t really want to start working with lots of boas and want to keep only 2-3 (I basically want an albino and a snow). I don’t want to buy or keep males. Honestly I don’t really want to use tons of space to keep a boa project. Do you think breeder loans would be worth the hassle of keeping a female? I’d be willing to part with her for the season but I’m not sure if all the effort would be worth it or if I should just stick with the bps...
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Investing in a female albino?
fire_Flyny
Apr 26, 2007 12:48 PM
Replies (3)
rainbowsrus
Apr 26, 2007 01:00 PM
IMO, go ahead and get the male. Unless you know someone with boas that would be willing to do the breeder loan. And of course someone you trust. Just getting the females with the intent of finding somewhere/one to loan them out could put you in a situiation where you have the females and nowhere to loan them out. Even if you do know someone, do they have an available compatible male to the morphs you have.
If you do know someone to loan them out to, then breeder loans can work out great. Again, IMO, Document the loan in writing. No matter how friendly/close you two are. Not even so much to cover yourself but to make certain the details are understood by both parties. You don't want to cause bad blood later due to a misunderstanding in the loan details.
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Thanks,
Dave Colling
www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
20.28 BRB
14.18 BCI
And those are only the breeders 
lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats 
BROWNSBOAS
Apr 26, 2007 02:00 PM
Sounds to me like you heart is not totally into the boas! If you have any reservations about the space situation I would have to say stick with your BPs'. You will most likely in time get tired of yours boas and thus have a another situation on your hands of having to sell them. Make sure you are devoted before you take the leap, because once you do you'll have to live with the decision. Keep what you love and you will never go wrong!!! Just my two cents! I typically stay away from breeding loans something almost always seems to go wrong with them and you are then left to deal with that situation. Not fun!!!
Al Brown/Brown's Boas
Slithering_Serpents
Apr 27, 2007 04:41 PM
You have room for 3 boas, so you'd be able to have 1.2 (one male & two females). Frequently, but not always, a male can take care of two females. This way you wouldn't have to worry about shipping your girls off to who knows where. Unless you have a real good friend that you totally trust who is a very experienced herper that you can do loans with, you would be WAY WAY better off having one male and two females. That way you could have a male albino, a female snow, and a third female of your choosing (among all the more expensive morphs het albino i.e. arabesque het albino, leopard het albino, even motley het albino, or a sunglow, or DH sunglow, a snow a DH snow, etc.). Or a Snow male and a female albino and the second female could be a jungle and you could make jungles het for snow, or the hets you made 3 years before ie. Snow male X jungle het snow, etc). There are lots of ways to go. I think that considering buying snakes an investment is specious though. It's part gamble, part investment, part luck, part hard work, and part heart.
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Caden Chapman
slithering.serpents@gmail.com
http://slitheringserpents.com
