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These two were part of the group brought into the US in '05. I like their very different looks. Nice big saddles versus reduced saddling leading to reverse striping.
What do you think?
The pair. This is one pic, not two merged together.

The female

The male

I've had them in the baby rack the last few weeks because the heat is on a few degrees higher than the adults and I wanted to feed them a tad more aggressively. So yes, the housing's a bit tiny, but it's VERY temporary as I have PLENTY of room

Thanks! jb
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Jonathan Brady
"Sarcasm is angers ugly cousin" -Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) in "Anger Management".

I was just reading about those, maybe 2 hours ago.
jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

Hey John, how many was in that shipment cuz Chris posted it a couple weeks back before school started but I couldn't find it. I really like that reverse striped lady, thanks for sharing
Bob

The first shipment in '05 had 60 boas, 57 Imperator 3 Sabogae

lol thanks for the clarification

pg.146, V. Russo, "The Complete Boa Constrictor", 2007 -- "This shipment entered the US through Florida in June 2005 and consisted of a group of twenty-six hypomelanistic boas (some being striped and reverse striped) along with thirty normal Panamanian Boas. There was no indication as to the locality from which these boas originated. However, the normal-appearing boas in this shipment were quite similar to Costa Rican Boas."

The total would be 56 boas according to this account. This does NOT include Sabogae.

jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

This is correct,some say 56 some say 58
Seems the majority also agreed they weren't that impressive.

Personally I see the Hog Island story replaying its self all over again,these things will be scatter bred with everything that will set still for it.

Sad Deal .....

>>pg.146, V. Russo, "The Complete Boa Constrictor", 2007 -- "This shipment entered the US through Florida in June 2005 and consisted of a group of twenty-six hypomelanistic boas (some being striped and reverse striped) along with thirty normal Panamanian Boas. There was no indication as to the locality from which these boas originated. However, the normal-appearing boas in this shipment were quite similar to Costa Rican Boas."
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>>The total would be 56 boas according to this account. This does NOT include Sabogae.
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>>jsc
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>>"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
>>John Crickmer
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TnK

I can assure you that there will 2.2 that will not be "scatter bred". We have one pair of abberant and one pair of classic that will hopefully produce for us this year.

60 if going off the cites (57 bci 3 sabogae). There was also only one shipment when the book was written but by the time it hit the release date, there were a few more that came in later but only one other shipment was in '05
Bob

Those are pretty cool little boas. I ought to look into those a little more.