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I think when I become an old man I will still want to keep Boas. So who is the oldest?

BTW im 29 and counting
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Adrian De Leon
Hissenia Reptiles

I'll be 18 till I die.......

OK I'm 56.......
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Brian Gundy

www.for-goodness-snakes.com

"I'll be 18 till I die" (doesn't act a day over 17)

I'm 48 and like Brian, always a kid at heart!!!
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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:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I'm 61 and much to young to be this old...lol
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Tom Crutchfield
www.tomcrutchfield.com

thats a great saying!! I love it
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Adrian De Leon
Hissenia Reptiles

I'm 50..
this forum caters to us...

got your aarps card..lol

Anyone still have some of your original boas from childhood?
The oldest snake I have is 9 years old and im 25.
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Spencer

Now that depends on what you mean.

1. Do you mean who here has kept Boas constantly and for how long? By that measure I have been doing so for 25 years and have had baby Boas ever year going back 23 years in a row. If all goes well, 24 years in a couple months.

2. Do you mean how long ago did you get your first Boa constrictor? Then that would be 27 years for me. I traded my first Boa for a Burmese. I have never admitted that publicly before. Jimmy "G" takes this one first.

3. Do you mean just plain oldest in that anyone who currently owns a Boa and is getting up in years? By that measure I am a relative youngster I suppose at a mere 49 years young. Jimmy "G", I think you will win the contest by this measure. At least compared to the previous posts. I can't hear you Jimmy "G"!

4. By the last possible method that I can think of, do you mean who actually owned a Boa the most years ago and still keeps some Boas? By that measure I know exactly who likely takes that one. Though he is probably scared to admit publicly that he bought his first Boa at a shop in California before I was born in 1957. Jimmy "G"! Where are you!?!?

Jimmy "G" is the hardest working poop scooper I have ever had here, and he'd run circles around most of you snot nosed kids. He has forgotten more than I will ever know about Herps and may actually give Tommy "C" a run for his money on a Herp test. Jimmy "G"!!! Did I wake you out of your anonymous Herpetological slumber?
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Jeff Ronne Sr
The Boaphile
Director USARK

Originator of Boaphile Plastics
The Boaphile Boa Site
The Boaphile Photo Gallery Link

haha. wow.. i didnt realize how many sides there are to this old coin question. Well Ill be a snot nosed youngster..thanks for making this hobby what it is today for the rest of us.
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Adrian De Leon
Hissenia Reptiles

My Mother, after pestering for over a year, bought a Boa for me at Woolworths[long out of business] for $5.99 when I was 8 years old. I have a Jamaican Boa I bred almost 18 years ago. While I didn't have ownership her entire life I have her now and she will live the rest of her life here unless I die first...My longest kept reptile was "Tommy", a False Gavial I got in 1974 as a 3' long croc. When I closed the croc farm he went to Alligator Adventure as a 14' plus croc and is still alive but I hear MUCH larger now. I had him from 1974 until 1997....
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Tom Crutchfield
www.tomcrutchfield.com

.. thanks for that accounting, Tom.
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Be good.

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

"Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus

Woolworths!!!!!!!!!!! Now that's a blast from the past!!! My grandma used to take me there to buy fish for her stainless steel framed, slate bottomed aquarium when I was 4-5 years old!
Great post Tom!

It was actually January 27, 1958. My Dad bought it for me from the Fruitvale Pet Shop in Oakland. I was 15 at the time. I remember the first thing I had to do when I got it home was pick the ticks off of it. It was 36" and really pretty and gentle. It never missed a meal while I had it.

Just for the Record: remreps is Jimmy "G" and he is currently 65 years of age. At least that is what he claims. I did get some skin scrapings from him that he left on the edge of a cage when he made a hasty retreat from a Monster Tail Hypo some time back. I sent those samples in to the Museum of Natural History in Chicago where they are soon to complete the Carbon-14 dating to verify is disputed age. The process used is accurate back to 60,000 years old so we should know something a bit more definitive soon.

It sounds you beat Jimmy "G", Tommy C to be the first one to own a Boa constrictor having gotten your first one at eight years of age in about 1956 if my math is correct.

Jimmy "G" is 65 years of age though, so I think may have everyone else beat on the straight old age contest.

The oldest Boa I own is a wild caught female Bolivian Boa that I obtained in 1991. She was about 6' long at that time. So I have had her for 18 years and she was probably at least 6 years old when I got her and more likely closer to ten.
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Jeff Ronne Sr
The Boaphile
Director USARK

Originator of Boaphile Plastics
The Boaphile Boa Site
The Boaphile Photo Gallery Link

I got my first boa when I was 12 in 1971. Back then collections where much more like zoo collections and there was not much emphasis on breeding. I had all of the big snakes you could get at that time and particularly liked African Rock pythons. I also had the bluest boa I have ever seen; I have never seen another boa with that color.I was without snakes throughout college, medical school and residency and got back into when I bought a ball python for my son in 1992. It was a wild caught adult male and I still have that ball python. I really started to get boa morphs for breeding in 1998. I turn 50 in 12 days so I guess I will be ready for my AARP card soon.

Bill Kirby

I got my first pet Boa, a regular BCI when I was 16 back in 1976 (I'm 48 now) ... not nearly as old as Tom, Jimmy or Jeff, however I was living in South Africa and there were very few boas even in the zoos over there at the time. Unfortunately, I had to sell her when I moved to work at a reptile park Germany a few years later.

cheers, John
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www.johnberryreptiles.com
www.designermorphs.com

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Adrian De Leon
Hissenia Reptiles